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4-19-26, 10:22am
That is such a sad list. I am so glad he was able to end his life with his family, with you guys who loved him so much.
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4-19-26, 8:48am
I'm impressed that they are at generation3! I remember talking to someone in line at the grocery in Traverse City and they came back each summer for...
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4-19-26, 6:06am
The bargain vegetable rack at Marketbasket had bags of potatoes that had started to sprout for 1.18, so I bought three of them and planted them all...
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4-19-26, 6:03am
I think real estate is the most difficult thing to inherit. Especially with multiple heirs. Our neighborhood has inherited lakefront cottages and...
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4-17-26, 1:14pm
Such a great idea, would be a big seller at the fairs.
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4-17-26, 1:13pm
I heard of one case where the person became incapacitated and their child went to court and got appointed conservator, then put assets in a trust...
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4-15-26, 1:47pm
Thanks to everyone who posted; it looks like 7 years for almost all of these papers, which is longer than I wanted to keep them, but better safe than...
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4-14-26, 11:40pm
I'm glad your trust works for you. I get why people do them, and I have also seen where they can lead to unnecessary problems and complications. My...
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4-14-26, 4:55pm
The problem with dressing like Stevie Nicks now is that one looks like a secretly alcoholic villainess on an episode of Midsummer Murders.
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4-14-26, 4:52pm
It's too bad we all saw King Lear, or read Jane Smiley's A Thousand Acres, for the Iowa farm version. I'm not a big fan of trusts after seeing one...
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4-14-26, 4:44pm
Oh my goodness, that is a lot of executorship and a lot of tax returns!!! I know all of this was harder during Covid because were in the midst of...
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4-14-26, 10:35am
Yes, I was talking to you.
That is really complicated. The problem with passing on real estate is that it just gets more and more complicated as...
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4-14-26, 10:16am
Is he local to you? If so, can he find someone in Burlington who specializes in this?
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4-14-26, 10:11am
Would any of the siblings want to buy him out? Would he be happy selling it to them?
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4-14-26, 9:43am
Michigan was great for that kind of lawyer--hope it helps.
I am going through files right now and yes, it feels somewhat great, but it's...
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4-14-26, 8:15am
Praying for our beloved Pope. Never thought I would see the day when the president of the US would threaten the Holy Father. After the personal...
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4-14-26, 8:12am
Finished! Now to figure out what paperwork to keep and what to burn, and how long I have to keep it.
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4-13-26, 7:17am
How wonderful!!
Apparently when his family lived in Savannah, his father rented Juliette Gordon Lowe's house from Juliette Gordon Lowe, founder of...
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4-12-26, 9:57am
I'm impressed. I am definitely not ready to do that, but I am super impressed.
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4-12-26, 6:18am
It was one I grew up with, the Savannah Cookbook from the 1920's, with the poem foreward by Ogden Nash. My folks had my grandmother's copy, and I...
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4-11-26, 6:28pm
Rosa, the Kondo method worked for the cookbooks. I really thought about them each as to why I had them and if I really wanted them.
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4-11-26, 10:56am
I can see your point!
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4-11-26, 10:52am
Wow, I am impressed, only two cookbooks!
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4-11-26, 10:38am
The MMIWG stuff is so shocking and if you google it on youtube, there are many documentaries and articles about MMIWG awareness and governmental...
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4-11-26, 8:44am
Just did my cookbook shelf with the Kondo method and let go of five cookbooks. I want to select a number and get down to that. But it's hard to let...
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4-11-26, 8:12am
Having expectations for your stuff beyond the grave is definitely a source of suffering. That is one advantage of selling one's house and converting...
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4-11-26, 7:02am
This is very appealing, very orderly. I like the idea of counting mine again, have not done that in a while, and culling down to a particular...
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4-10-26, 8:52pm
That is truly sad; he wanted to be king for so long.
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4-10-26, 8:26pm
Wow, I had not heard that. Is this accepted news, did he make some statement about it? Poor guy.
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4-10-26, 5:26pm
Here's a good buy (really cheap for Portland) but it's 960 sq feet 2 bd, 1 bath old house--really pretty
166 Maine Ave, Portland, ME 04103 | MLS#...
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4-10-26, 4:38pm
Yeah, a friend who is selling her house said the same thing last week, that prices had tripled. Today I looked at one that I looked at that was...
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4-10-26, 3:43pm
I will try the Kondo trick on one bookshelf and see what happens.
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4-10-26, 3:42pm
Housing prices here have tripled since the start of the pandemic. So I think that is why a lot of people don't feel wealthy, because they aren't,...
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4-9-26, 5:30pm
I just took ten to the shelf at the grocery where you can buy them but you can also donate them. Took ten and only bought one, and will pass it...
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4-9-26, 12:18pm
I have a really hard time getting rid of books and always seem to be acquiring new ones.
Those of you who are successful at culling books, how do...
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4-8-26, 2:51pm
It sounds like you made a great decision, moving along from that job and into your new job!
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4-6-26, 11:27am
That's really sad. I think it can help to have role models who did well with the gifts. My mom was great with her inheritance, basically building...
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4-4-26, 7:05pm
It's the difference between per stirpes and per capita inheritance, and per stirpes seems to be the standard.
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4-3-26, 7:45am
This happened to my brother in Cambridge, and he got a lawyer and opened probate and it all went fine without having the signed will. I think hers...
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4-1-26, 5:01pm
Check which one your library uses and you can download books on it and then in my primitive car, I connect the phone to the jack and the book plays...
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3-31-26, 1:35pm
did you decide to go back to Texas? Was it a hard decision?
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3-31-26, 8:21am
Thank you I will tryit, especially with spring coming, as I ruin so many t-shirts with stains, usually coffee.
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3-31-26, 8:20am
Its raining here thank goodness so it can wear away at the remaining snow pack. It is so good to see ground again. My roses under hay are trying to...
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3-31-26, 8:17am
It's getting a lot of buzz (as in my son went to see it--he is my source for good new movies). I should check out the book.
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3-31-26, 8:16am
I think that's brilliant to do that--you get the pay, the best of the job, without the stress and pressure--retirement is not black and white...
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3-30-26, 7:10am
This sounds rather wonderful! Exactly what I would want, for sure. How incredible that five of her six godchildren were there. I love the idea of...
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3-29-26, 10:28am
Brake clean--will have to try this.
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3-29-26, 8:53am
I really like your reflections, happystuff-- options-- this is truly security.
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3-29-26, 7:52am
Of course! I will say that I have done this, have mass said for someone, that it is my first impulse when someone I love very much dies. So know...
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3-28-26, 6:54pm
Sending support, Catherine.
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3-24-26, 12:30pm
I think if I could find someone who was DO or nurse practitioner I would be interested in pursuing this. I looked at a couple around here and...
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3-24-26, 7:45am
That's wonderful, Klunick, hope the new job is wonderful and glad the long commute is behind you.
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3-20-26, 12:49pm
Been keeping up with Pitt each week.
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3-20-26, 12:39pm
Catherine, this is the kind of thing I am looking at:
2014 Subaru Forester 2.5i Premium - $7,488 - CarGurus
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3-20-26, 11:12am
I would buy a used Toyota or Subaru with awd. I have the rusting issue right now with my Toyota and will investigate welded plates under the car...
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