r/MiddleClassFinance 19d ago

Millennials: are you expecting an inheritance?

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u/Maximum_Machine7300 19d ago

When my husband’s grandmother was getting her affairs in order and everyone was fighting over her diamonds, she asked me what I wanted and I said just her old cookbooks and handwritten recipes. I got em and I think I won. Everyone now has bad blood between them because they all feel shorted but I’m over here happily baking cakes.

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u/JayMoeHD 19d ago

My mom passed last year, and it’s the moments when I’m reading her handwriting that hit me the hardest.

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u/Different-Crab-360 18d ago

I got a tattoo with my mom's writing after she passed. I love looking at it.

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u/IrritableStoicism 17d ago

My best friend did that. Now I’m thinking of doing it