Re: more details/ groceries

we have just been discussing this and she never thought nuch about it until
her heart attack, Lee
"The Cook" <susan_r23666@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Mon, 14 Mar 2011 15:33:43 -0500, "Storrmmee"
<rgrass@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

this is a HUGE issue for me, please check what you are storing for them
and
label the boxes, i really was traumatised helping empty a friend's house,
and i have begged my mom to label what is in her house, its a quite large
house, including two fully functional kitchens, so she has cool stuff but
its stuff she wants us to have so she has been sorting and labelling so we
don't indavertintly throw away or take what is intended for another
sibling...

Lee

Why doesn't she just go ahead and give it to whomever she thinks
should have it? On the other hand, if you aren't real crazy about the
items just as well that she keep the packed up rather than you.

I hope I can do as well as my Aunt did. After her husband died I
helped her clean out all of his junk. He had kept everything.

She got her will done. The lawyer provide a few pages to list
specific things that various people wanted. Anything that she was no
longer using she gave away. On one of my trips there we went though
the house and made the list of who was to get what. The lawyer's
paper indicated the item and the recipient. Then I took pictures of
everything, labeled them with the number from the list and the
recipient. She kept the pictures with her copy of the will.

On the other hand, my in-laws kept everything, including the boxes
they came in. (If you put the box in the garbage the collectors will
know that you just got a new whatever.) We spent months getting much
of the stuff out. He collected books and there are many first
editions and other books of value. DH is still working on getting rid
of them. And the canceled checks from when he bought the 1955 Chevy
new. And the electric bills, etc.

I am cleaning out my collection of books. I don't believe that there
is anything of value there. The local library is the recipient of
them. I just sold my silverware. Think I will see what I can do
about my china. I don't think that there are many things that my kids
would want. Think I will tell them that if there is, speak now.
--
Susan N.

"Moral indignation is in most cases two percent moral,
48 percent indignation, and 50 percent envy."
Vittorio De Sica, Italian movie director (1901-1974)


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