Sadly, we seem to live in a disposable culture. Nothing is made to last very long to start with, and no one repairs things anymore either.
I have a couple of Irish linen table cloths that were my grandmothers, and one had a tiny, very delicately and precisely darned patch on it, you have to really look to find it, but it showed how much she valued it.
I also have a few of her silver vases, apparently single flower vases were a thing in the 20's and she would set a cluster of them with one single stem from her garden in each one. as a center piece,(sometimes with her string of pearls wound around the bases when she felt "really fancy").
Luckily, my daughter says she was born in the wrong century, and values all things vintage, so they will have a good home for at least another generation!
My other grandmother, Bless her, had very few "valuables" other than the Crystal Rosary her groom gave her on her wedding day. They were bringing up 9 children during the depression, so my most valuable reminder of her is her amazing "make do" attitude, and picture of her in a plain apron, made from a flour sack, with tiny pink embroidered flowers on the pocket, that I remember always having a cookie in it!
I had the punch bowl, too, and still do actually, used these days on very rare occasions as a loaner to wedding receptions for flower arrangements or ice bowls for chilled appetizers.