Do you hold on to belongings that your kids don't want to inherit?

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It used to be such a ''thing'' to inherit what families considered to be treasures, such as lovely sets of china, glassware, fancy and expensive furniture pieces, collectibles, from everything to salt-and-pepper sets to Hummel figurines. We grew up viewing these things, and/or eating off the china plates on Sundays and holidays. Kids, and in all honestly many people, do not want these things anymore. They don't want to spend hours in the kitchen, hand-washing delicate china and Waterford glasses, they don't want collections of things that make more clutter and have to be dusted, and have no meaning for them. I realized this years ago, and all of the items like the above mentioned were scrutinized, offered to the kids that wanted them, and most of them are gone. My ex was really big on what I term to be ''fancy'' items, and costly ones. Since I was the one who ultimately had to take care of them, I quickly became not a fan of this at all. I held on to a few things that hold a lot of sentimental value. The really old china that one of my grandmothers brought from Ireland way before I was born, along with the sterling silver flatware that she had. It was supposed to go to the oldest granddaughter, which was me. My oldest daughter knows this, and it will go to her daughter when the time comes. I have 2 very fragile cordial glasses that my Dad brought back from Korea for my grandmother, they are over 70 years old and are lovely, I treasure them. My other grandmother left me her huge set of multi-colored Fiesta dishes. I kept them, they are my everyday dishes and serve me very well. Everyone that has passed on in my life, left me STUFF. I saved the sets of beautiful china that I inherited for a long time. My youngest daughter wanted the largest set, so she has it. My oldest son wanted one small set. I kept the Irish Grandmother's china, and there was still china sets to pass on...I gave them away. Expensive china that would have been worth a ton of money at one point, but now, no one really wants them anymore. My children live simply and just don't want to care for this stuff, they want dishes they can put in the dishwasher. I can sure agree with that. But the dishes are all so pretty, yes? But just not a thing anymore, not like they used to be. How about you? Do you have stuff you saved to pass on, but the kids don't want it?