Reply #75: I lived in a multigenerational family [View All]

[LostinNY]

Until I was about 10. My fathers father died when my dad was 18, and this was before Social Security. Instead of going to college, my dad got a job to support himself, his mother, and 3 years later he married my mom and she moved in.

My grandmother could be hard to live with, but I learned valuable lessons. When she passed away, my father inherited a home free and clear. My father had siblings but they knew the house was to go to my dad because he took care of his mother literally to and on the day she died.

Because my father inherited a home, we were able to do some things as children we might not have been able to do based on his small salary.

This home was given to my grandparents by my grandfathers mother, so it has been in my family since 1909!

The thing is my mom is the only one left there now, I lived with her until I got married at 27. I don't know what to do when she passes. It's become like a family heirloom and I don't want her or it to go!