Parents with dementia, how dealing with that has gone.

[D&D]

That is a good idea

Wife didn’t think so at first when I made her tag her shoes and clothes

 

[Runner]

My parents literally built their home in 1954 with their own hands (my Dad was a brick mason). In order to not have any debt, they paid for materials as they could afford them. While they were building the house, they lived in a one room concrete block building that was already on the same site, but directly behind where house was being built.

While cleaning out their stuff, I found a file with every single receipt from the house build. Total came out to something like $5000. It was fascinating seeing the price of building materials from 1954. This was an all brick, block and stone, three-bedroom ranch house, hardwood floors, real wood paneling, real plaster walls and ceilings, boiler hot water heating system, etc.

File was about 3 inches thick and hated to throw it out, but other than saving for posterity, what good was it?

 

[ArlyA]

My parents literally built their home in 1954 with their own hands (my Dad was a brick mason). In order to not have any debt, they paid for materials as they could afford them. While they were building the house, they lived in a one room concrete block building that was already on the same site, but directly behind where house was being built.

While cleaning out their stuff, I found a file with every single receipt from the house build. Total came out to something like $5000. It was fascinating seeing the price of building materials from 1954. This was an all brick, block and stone, three-bedroom ranch house, hardwood floors, real wood paneling, real plaster walls and ceilings, boiler hot water heating system, etc.

File was about 3 inches thick and hated to throw it out, but other than saving for posterity, what good was it?

If it has no value to you, throw it out.

 

[newbury]

File was about 3 inches thick and hated to throw it out, but other than saving for posterity, what good was it?

If you envision posterity and have the space it might be worth saving.

 

[ultrarunner]

Coworker was fretting over storing some things for grandma entering assisted living.

I asked if she had any old suitcases and she did.

Everything grandma valued fit inside 3 suitcases…

Easy to move, out of the way and relatively protected and easily identifiable.

 

[JasperFrank]

My parents literally built their home in 1954 with their own hands (my Dad was a brick mason). In order to not have any debt, they paid for materials as they could afford them. While they were building the house, they lived in a one room concrete block building that was already on the same site, but directly behind where house was being built.

While cleaning out their stuff, I found a file with every single receipt from the house build. Total came out to something like $5000. It was fascinating seeing the price of building materials from 1954. This was an all brick, block and stone, three-bedroom ranch house, hardwood floors, real wood paneling, real plaster walls and ceilings, boiler hot water heating system, etc.

File was about 3 inches thick and hated to throw it out, but other than saving for posterity, what good was it?

I have an huge file of everything related to the building of our house and every appliance. Including photos of the construction. Over the years this has been extremely valuable, and will be given to the new owner if we ever sell.

 

[MossRoad]

My parents literally built their home in 1954 with their own hands (my Dad was a brick mason). In order to not have any debt, they paid for materials as they could afford them. While they were building the house, they lived in a one room concrete block building that was already on the same site, but directly behind where house was being built.

While cleaning out their stuff, I found a file with every single receipt from the house build. Total came out to something like $5000. It was fascinating seeing the price of building materials from 1954. This was an all brick, block and stone, three-bedroom ranch house, hardwood floors, real wood paneling, real plaster walls and ceilings, boiler hot water heating system, etc.

File was about 3 inches thick and hated to throw it out, but other than saving for posterity, what good was it?

My dad built his house in the 50s. He had around 1000 square feet of thermopane floor to ceiling glass in that house. He said he got it for about $1500.

Around 1993-4 he shot a rock through just one 4'x4'ish panel with a snowblower. That one panel was $1500.

 

[MossRoad]

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File was about 3 inches thick and hated to throw it out, but other than saving for posterity, what good was it?

I have a few things like that from my parents and grandparents. It's kinda fun to look through once in a while. I found a bunch of letters dad wrote to his mom during and after WWII on a folder that probably would have been thrown out. So, I packed up a banker box with some good stuff and kept it. Doesn't take up too much room. A lot less space than my fishing stuff.

 

[California]

I mean Sioux Falls when I say SF.

Where's Sioux Falls?

 

[MossRoad]

Where's Sioux Falls?

Just downstream from the Queen Bee Mill Ruins....