What I find poignant is the item forms a bridge back to the past that says "your stuff is a relevant today as it was back then", to persons who probably are no longer are with us.
I hope the same can (and will) be said of my stuff & work in the future once I'm gone, if only just once by one person, somewhere, sometime!
I still have quite a few of my Pas old tools. Even the toolbox dad says Pa made and used when working in Tassie. Pa was a carpenter ( built his own house even made his own concrete stumps) so whenever I need to do any woodwork I break out his old tools, including his electric planer (from the 80's I suppose) but I always spare a thought for him and wonder if it ever passed his mind that one day his grandson would be using his tools.
