Attachment To Material Things

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I was my grandma's sidekick while she was running errands today. She had me in charge of holding her bags and handling her receipts. I did this a lot for her in the past and will continue to do so. She is always hectic and distracted, so someone has to keep track of her bags and receipts. She loses things all the time, calls my papa, and mourns her lost things. This happens over and over again. I was observing my grandma today and I noticed that she has an attachment to material things. She clutches them tightly and holds them close to her like she is super scared of losing them, having them stolen, leaving them behind. This is strange because she still ends up losing things when she is alone. We went to her jeweler friend as one of her errands and she was trying to sell one of her heirloom pieces. It was a necklace with a medallion type of pendant. Quite lovely. The jeweler friend offered her a good price and she was in fact making a profit on that, but she changed her mind and put it back in her purse. She refused to sell it. The jeweler friend asked if she had anything else. He was quite patient because she brings things to him to sell all the time, but then she doesn't sell them. She gets a price, and even if it's a good price, she doesn't sell. I don't even know if she ever sold anything to him. She offered a simple necklace with a religious type of pendant. Another heirloom piece. He offered a price. She declined again. She put it back in her purse. She ended up just having some pieces tested including the pendant I bought her recently to check that all of them were in fact sterling silver. They were. Then we left. She didn't sell anything. She never does. As a minimalist, I have a hard time comprehending my grandma and her attachment to material things. I don't have such attachments. If I were to be in her position, I would sell everything, take the money, and call it a day. She just wasted her time showing the items to the jeweler, getting a price, and then backing out of selling them. Now she has stuff, yes, but she doesn't have the money. I'm surprised she would prefer the stuff over the money. Oh well. Her stuff, her choice.