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Yes.
I got inheritance from my grandmother (some personal effects, jewellery, furniture) and also from a woman who was like a grandmother to me and recently passed (same type of things as with my gran). I wasn't expecting it but I was glad to have some of their most valued items. Among the items I have inherited that I most value are the necklace my grandfather gave to my grandmother for their engagement, several old photographs, a beautiful antique side table in mahogany, and an antique Singer sowing machine.
When my father passed, I inherited most of his personal effects and belongings, among them watches, artworks, furniture, thousands of books and CD's, a car, a house, and several other items. My most cherished item is his old mandolin. But I also inherited some of his debts...that part wasn't so great but I knew it was coming because I knew he was bad with his money.
I think if people know how to manage their money, there is no reason why they shouldn't be able to pass something on to their relatives, however small.
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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.
Fernando Pessoa, 1918
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