It used to be that the mere mention of watching home movies would elicit inward groans. Maybe it wasn’t as bad as having friends set up the projector screen to show you slides from their most recent vacation, but it came pretty close. The joy of home movies was definitely confined to those people involved…
Over the past several years, there have been many articles written about how grown children aren’t interested in keeping the older generation’s stuff—the family heirlooms, the furniture that family homes were built around, the items with sentimental value. It often causes trauma for both generations: the kids feel bad but don’t want to be saddled…