This week on the Gilmore Girls forum we are discussing episode 7.5 (because it reruns this week) and episode 1.6, Rory's Birthay Parties (because we have started over at the beginning and this is week 6).

In the opening scene of 1.6, at Friday night dinner, Emily tells L&R that after dinner they are to go around the house and put a Post-It on items they would like to have left to them in the elder Gilmores' wills.

Both L&R think it's creepy and weird and go all eewwwwww. Why?

Admittedly, given the single grandchild staus that Rory holds, it's a superfluous excersize. Everything goes to her, anyway. But, just as the Palladino's later mocked elementary school musicals with an adult in the lead role because they had seen one, here they are unfairly mocking a common and practical practice in many multi-sibling families.

I have two brothers and three sisters. When our parents decided to down-size from the huge house and yard they no longer wanted to occupy, they had us all over for the very Post-It event depicted in 1.6.

We had different colored slips and we tagged the things we wanted to have. Interestingly and, perhaps, amazingly, very few items got more than one tag. If there were two, a coin was flipped. If there were more, straws were drawn. Only one item had six stickies.

In the 1930's our paternal grandmother acquired 12 huge fiestaware dinner plates in bright southwestern colors. Grandma had given them to my father when they closed down the summer cabin after my grandfather died. We only used them on Thanksgiving when we were kids. All of us wanted them. The only thing that all of us wanted.

When the folks moved to the smaller place, things they didn't want/need went to the sibling who had chosen it. There is a detailed list of who eventually gets what they still have, including the fiestaware.

In multi-sibling families, the Post-It concept is sound and the mockery was misplaced, is all I'm saying.

And as the named executor of our parents' estate, I am extremely pleased that I will not have to referee fights about who gets what. And, I am happy for the opportunity to cheat my youngest sister out of the fiestaware.