Maybe this belongs in the YKYO thread, but when I was a kid a lot of retailers' ads on the radio started with a reminder of how many shopping days remained until Christmas. Then again, stores were typically closed on Sunday so the number of shopping days was fewer than actual days.
Worse for me was sitting there trying to look happy about something while thinking "Whatinthe **** am I supposed to do with this?" We didn't go all out like some apparently do. But realistically,
is spot on. Although the last few years that my extended family got together were some of the best in my adult life... rather than exchanging gifts we bought for people off the tree at my parent's church.
Just terminate all credit cards. Netflix and others will quickly follow, after a bounced billing cycle or three.
MY wife and I took over my dad's accounts for cell service and life alert etc. He gladly pays us once a year for everything we put in our name instead of his. Made a generous donation to my late mother's meals on wheels after I found out she qualified for free meals obviously I didn't tell my mom who lived over 500 miles from me at the time. I can't say enough good things how social services for aging folks helped my mother after my donation, and helping me handling her personal affairs after her passing. My dad and late step mom supposedly have everything set up when he eventually passes. However I don't think they acknowledge the differences of opinions on my step moms side and my bio sisters particularly. You can choose your friends you can't choose biological family members I guess. I'm sure I'll unfortunately have more peeving in the future.
But in the words of my former boss, “if your mom didn’t have them, then you would have all of her!”It definitely was much easier dealing with my late moms stuff alone with the help of social services after she passed. Unfortunately both of her daughters my biological sisters wanted nothing to do with her when she was alive. Anyways I can go on peeving about clearly obvious cynical assumptions I came up with but won't. When I was much younger and selfishly stupid I was Problaby brought up in the old saying of choosing friends not family members.Sometimes it pays to be an only child, eh?
I have one surviving sibling on my side, and being in healthcare management, she actually carries more of the weight on arranging elder care than I do. But she also draws on the estate for loans and expenses, since she struggles more with finances than I do. It all works out.
I’ll have to execute on the estate when it’s all done, my sister isn’t one to be dealing with the financial end of anything, but expect I’ll just split the liquid assets and then leave everything else to her. She has both more time invested and more interest in that stuff, than I do. Things have a way of balancing out.
