Monday is amazing
Nov. 17th, 2025 09:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
walkitoutQuite a few years ago now, my sister was thinking about her retirement plans and talking about Mexico. That’s roughly the time frame I started planning the house that we’re building now.
Some time after that, my sister and her offspring had some medical things that they wanted done, and there was some uncertainty about insurance covering it and the scale of the copays. Also, she was pretty burned out from her job. So she started planning a big around the world trip and some medical tourism. This made me super uncomfortable and I had some comments about some of the specific destinations / legs, but the plan kept evolving, so I did my very best to be loving and supportive. As we have approached the time to really start committing to an itinerary, she picked out a first leg, starting a little later in the year and I asked a bit about the details of where they intended to do the medical stuff and what the recovery time frame would be like for the various components. They sounded a lot shorter than I had recalled, but then she remembered the one that had the longer recovery time frame.
I said, hey, you know, I’d be happy to fund this without it being an international activity. We had some additional discussion about whether that would be pre or post move and pre or post travel, and she started looking into details on the various components and it’s looking like she is going to separate the travel from the medical. I could not be more pleased. Also, she went to Arhaus, sat in the chairs and loved them, and also picked out a bed. Woot!
ETA: Bloomberg had an article about boomer collections being inherited and it actually has some nuance!
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-11-14/millennials-gen-x-set-to-inherit-boomers-antique-collectible-fortunes
Really great article. Highly recommend.
Some time after that, my sister and her offspring had some medical things that they wanted done, and there was some uncertainty about insurance covering it and the scale of the copays. Also, she was pretty burned out from her job. So she started planning a big around the world trip and some medical tourism. This made me super uncomfortable and I had some comments about some of the specific destinations / legs, but the plan kept evolving, so I did my very best to be loving and supportive. As we have approached the time to really start committing to an itinerary, she picked out a first leg, starting a little later in the year and I asked a bit about the details of where they intended to do the medical stuff and what the recovery time frame would be like for the various components. They sounded a lot shorter than I had recalled, but then she remembered the one that had the longer recovery time frame.
I said, hey, you know, I’d be happy to fund this without it being an international activity. We had some additional discussion about whether that would be pre or post move and pre or post travel, and she started looking into details on the various components and it’s looking like she is going to separate the travel from the medical. I could not be more pleased. Also, she went to Arhaus, sat in the chairs and loved them, and also picked out a bed. Woot!
ETA: Bloomberg had an article about boomer collections being inherited and it actually has some nuance!
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-11-14/millennials-gen-x-set-to-inherit-boomers-antique-collectible-fortunes
Really great article. Highly recommend.