Dear Queenie,
My wife has a set of encyclopedias that someone gave her when she was in school. That was so many – many! – years ago that they are now very much out of date, but she still refers to them and won’t give them up.
She intends to pass them on to our grandchildren when she dies and she just doesn’t understand that they won’t use them because nowadays they just look things up online and they probably won’t even have any space for them.
Queenie, what do you suggest?—Her husband
Dear Husband,
Even if they don’t use the encyclopedias, your grandchildren probably will treasure them in memory of their grandmother, and they may actually even refer to them now and then, if only to see how things “used to be”.
Box them up and store them away until the time comes to pass them on, and try not to be offended if the recipients do not react the way their grandmother would have expected.
