Real Life Adventures by Gary Wise and Lance Aldrich for March 30, 2015

our (zippo) kids leave us alone alll the time, a mixed blessing.

HAH! I am now of the view that my folks did it on purpose, so I’d think of them EVERY DAY I shift around more of their 50+ years of stuff.

That’s why you leave them ‘special’ little surprises from the BDSM catalog. Just for giggles.

This is so funny and so true. My sister and I will need to spend three months full-time going thru our parents stuff once our mom passes. Two Italian immigrants who saved everything because “hey I might need that tomorrow”. I unfortunately inherited 1/2 the mentality. Ugh!!

That sure worked with me and my folks, but going through it started with ill health, not death. They had become hoarders. Then they were both out of the house for an entire week, and I rented a 6 cubic yard dumpster. Filled it and when they came back, they couldn’t tell anything was different. All in all, I filled 4 dumpsters of that size, and one smaller one. Then after my father passed, I found a photocopy of a document with very, very valuable autographs on them with a note in his handwriting: “I have the original”. Never did find it. First recorded case where somebody actually succeeded in “taking it with them.”

JUNK!!!! how dare you. Everything I own is highly desirable -junk. There is a difference!!!!

PS this a COMIX!!!!!!!!! and a good one too…..

I have done that, I will admit it was a highly enlightening experience!

I see now.

If there is a “will”, there’s a way…

A few years ago, my wife and I started gifting a few select items to our kids. There is actually a very interesting book titled “Inheritance TUG=OF-WAR Stories” by Peter McClellan worth reading if you are approaching this situation…

No kidding! After my husband died, I sold all his collections and 90% of mine and made about $37,000. So take that and stuff it in your cedar chest everyone else! Junk CAN be valuable!!

That is too bad. Pays to NOT jump the gun! A friend’s mother was ill, not expected to live so she gave away all her clothes and belongings. She recovered. OOPS!!

When we open an estate for the second-to-die, I always urge all of the kids to come in together, to go through everything. Normally turns into a great family event, remembering the happy times.