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Found the trick to having your stuff sorted through
Just got back last night from my great-aunt's memorial and funeral services. My uncle, aunt and I helped my parents clean out my great-aunt's apartment -- and by "helping", I mean we did it all. I am not sure what the heck my parents did -- the fridge was still full (which both I and my uncle separately had asked my mom to empty, knowing that was a relatively easy task) and she died almost a month ago.
My great-aunt had a LOT of crap. Old bills, spare notecards from all the charities she donated to, photos and so on. Boxes and boxes of yarn (she was a knitter of infant hats for the local hospital and lap blankets for shut-ins). Old lamps and knick-knacks. A ton of buttons. But tucked here and there in random places were wads of cash. We found over $1200 of cash, not counting all the coins we found in cigar tubes and the like. After the first find, we began to wonder and then found more and more. Needless to say, we were a bit more thorough in going through things after that! Mental note to start stashing cash around my place to get people to go through it all carefully when I kick the bucket.
DD -- 5YO
DS -- 3YO
Re: Found the trick to having your stuff sorted through
wow!!
when my mom's boyfriend's mom died (follow?) - she had sewn money into the bottom seams of her curtains. dont' ask me how they found that... and literally under the mattress among other random places.
when I helped with my grandparents house we filled up grocery sacks with those little ketchups from fast food restaurants and those little salt and pepper packets and napkins. guess that's what growing up during the Depression does to you...
Wow on both accounts...my husbands grandfather and my grandpa were were financial planners/stock market junkies, so no cash just laying around their places!
Pesky - if you found silver dollar coins, have them appraised. There are some mint-dates that are WAY more valuable than others.
Are you united with the CCOKCs?
Wow, indeed!
My dad told me for years that he used to stash money in the books in his huge home library. When he and my mom traveled overseas, he told me which books he stashed $1,000 in in case something happened to him. When he died, in my grief, I couldn't remember what books. But I went through every one before they were donated and didn't find a single dollar. Don't know if he'd emptied his stash or if some library patron got $1,000 richer. Or worse, if the book was trashed and the money lost with it.
Yep. We are either going to ship all the coins to my brother and he can keep the riches or hire a coin appraiser to go through the stash.
DD -- 5YO
DS -- 3YO
Buttons surprisingly can be worth money too. My Grandma is/was a button collector and has buttons worth hundreds a piece.
Mom & I cleaned Grandma's apartment when she moved out of assisted living and into a nursing home. We found her secret stashes -- of butter tubs (300+), newspapers stacked to the ceiling, and several hundred plastic grocery sacks.
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