My grandpa bought us stocks back in the 90s. My memory isn't perfect but I remembered him printing out my portfolio and going over the invested companies. He showed me investing like Intel computers, Wells Fargo, and other major brands. I believe I remember him saying they'd be sold on my 40th birthday and I'd be contacted somehow but I'm not sure.
Over the years he sent me birthday cards referencing them. There was a birthday poem with the line, "Some kids can barely buy socks, and others have money invested in blue chip stocks," and he'd underlined it. He'd point to the Wells Fargo horse and buggy logo and say, "You'll be driving that horse and buggy one day."
Even though he discussed this with my parents , my older sister, (who also has some invested in her name) and I assume other members of the family, I'm the only one with these memories. I talked to my grandma about it, but she just shook her head.
They say that after he died, he didn't leave my grandmother too much, and some of my aunts and uncles have all shipped in to help take care of her. After my grandpa died, I remember one of the aunts has taken the closest care of grandma tried to get a painting that was promised to my dad. My dad had to turn the painting over and show that on the back was writing in my grandpa's handwriting that it was promised to his son. I love my family and I think they're honest people, but something is showing that my father had that kind of instinct to get something like that written down. I hate to suspect it, but wonder if something fishy happened to these investings? And that maybe not everyone's memory is as bad as they're pretending?
I can't seem to get a name for who helped my grandpa with his finances. Would this just be lost money if it doesn't come up in 7 years or so?
Submitted January 31, 2021 at 11:33PM by redfoot62 https://ift.tt/2YuFf4j
