It doesn't have to make sense to you

I saw a comment in a thread yesterday that made me super angry, and I don't want to post it directly because this has happened to me time and time again. Basically, it was a comment on a post from someone who was just starting minimalism. They were asking for ways to get rid of old family heirlooms and whether their family would be mad or not. Someone commented along the lines of "You need to respect your family and their belongings. My grandmother gave me a pink granite vase and put it in my room when I was little. My wife came along and hated it and said she was going to get rid of it. So we left it in the garage for 7 years as a compromise. Just because you don't like something doesn't mean you should disrespect the people who gave you things. Those people are dead. You should cherish those things."<br><br>I'm sure you can all guess what inspired this rant. I've been in this situation so many times since my grandma's aunt passed away. My grandma was her primary caregiver for many years, so of course she inherited almost everything. She doesn't want to keep anything, but she knows the rest of her family will be mad if she gets rid of it. So she gave a lot of it to me, and I don't want to keep most of it. I don't have a lot of money, but I have a ton of stuff. It's really hard to get rid of anything when you have family members breathing down your neck about how you don't respect them if you don't want to keep it. It just doesn't make sense, and it's so frustrating to have to argue this. <br><br>If you came here today to tell me that I don't respect my family, I doubt you've had to deal with what I have. Just be careful about what you say to people if you don't fully understand the situation.