Socks

After my mother died I was responsible for disposing of all her things.  We had an estate sale for the larger stuff.  I donated a bunch of things.  But if it didn't sell at the estate sale and it seemed valuable or useful, I held on to it.  I have sold several items on eBay.  And I kept a few pieces of clothing and some socks.  

Sometimes my husband will ask me where I got this shirt or those pants.  I say, "I inherited them."  The other day I put on a pair of socks that had belonged to my mother and it occurred to me that if I die in less than a year, my daughter might inherit those same socks.  She probably wouldn't even know that they were her grandmother's.