Woman returns to elderly parents' home to show her young daughter their family heirlooms, only to clash with her sister, who unexpectedly shows up, reclaiming the shared childhood toys after years of disinterest: 'She said they were originally hers'

It's interesting that the older we get, the more we seem reminisce about the memories of our childhood.

Suddenly, every finger-drawn painting and American Girl doll begins to hold a lot more value than it did in the 5th grade. And if we're lucky enough to have parents who hold on to those childhood gems and trinkets, we can have something of our past to bring into our present, and perhaps even share with our children one day. As the years pass, many of us quickly learn that we spent most of our young adult life trying to find our passionate and playful inner child, before the world tried to change us.

Every person is different and may find childhood sentiment in many different forms: toys, photographs, or even childhood homes. But unfortunately, it is slightly more difficult to store a childhood home in the second shelf of our basement cupboard…So, as irrelevant as those toys and photographs may feel at the time, it is important you hold on to them, or hope that your parents do, until you realize their importance.

We are shaped by our memories, and everything we touch, eat, or are interested in as a child holds some type of meaning. Many of us, if we're lucky, get to share those same things with our siblings…However, where it sometimes gets tricky is how the division of those items and potential family heirlooms will be divided one day…and whose future children will get to dress up and play with "mom's" American Girl doll, or wear "dad's" Football Jersey when both daughters and sons loved and shared them equally…

This mother has a 2-year-old daughter and has been excited for months to visit her parents out of state. Not only because they still live in her childhood home, but also because she knows they have kept all her childhood toys for all these years. And now she finally has a daughter of her own to pass them down to. However, she is quickly surprised to learn that her ‘M-I-A’ sister has also come upstate for a little 'ol times' sake visit…But she, too, has a teen daughter and suddenly, after all those years, begins showing interest in the same childhood belongings…This is bound to be awkward.
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AIO for hiding childhood things at my(32f) parents’ house so my sister (40f) can’t take them?

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$My sister also has daughters, the oldest is 12, and she has \never\ come to collect any of the items despite multiple requests from our parents to please start taking our things.$

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