Why is it so hard to cancel something when someone close to you passes? I won't bother you with the process I went thru to cancel a deceased loved ones netflix account. I also I don't wish on my worst enemy trying to cash in a loved ones life insurance policy. I could peeve for hrs on trying to take care of a deceased persons affairs. Sry for your loss btw.
Hard enough cancelling your own accounts. I created a Linkedin account when I became self-employed in my early 60s. I quickly learned that the free account was pretty much useless, but they made it very difficult to delete. Don't recall what it was, but there was some hoop I needed to jump thru that wasn't possible to do.
It's still there, and I occasionally get emails telling me it was "noticed".
Christmas gifts for only those that still believe in Santa Claus. Apparently, Christmas is one of the most stressful seasons of the year. People that cann,t afford having to buy useless gifts for everyone, because they are forced to exchange gifts. How about a drink, a nice meal together, and no crazy high credit card bills to pay off in January, or for the rest of the year.
My mother was notoriously difficult to buy gifts for, even in her younger years. If she didn't like something she wasn't shy about letting you know. My sisters and I pretty much got around that by taking her to a favorite restaurant for her birthday.
Christmas has always been one of my least favorite holidays...the forced joviality, the expectation that you'll spend time with people you'd rather not, etc. Wife and I generally go into hermit mode for the holidays.
Speaking of peeving about gifts one thing I learned instead of getting your folks a pair of socks or an electronic device they won't or can't figure out how to use without causing mass frustrations on both ends. Simply including them in your family vacations especially winter ones heading south if they live in a snowbelt if they insist on paying for some or all of it just planning it out and including/ helping them is a perfect gift for them in my case. Plus less unused usually unopened clutter ime.
That depends very much on family dynamics. 2 or 3 hours is plenty for me. Not that there's any animosity, just that I'm a fairly private person and other than my wife there really isn't anyone I'd want to spend more than that amount of time with at one stretch. A vacation with others would be very stressful.
The first year one woman asked for toilet paper. Say what you want but I can't comprehend needing that so badly that you would ask for it that way. Along with some of her other requests she got toilet paper... Everybody there brought at least a couple of rolls.
Not very elegant, but at least it's a gift you know she'll use.
As far as I can tell, if I pass before my father or mother, my wife and son will get zero as the will is written. My sister will get 100%. That is not his intension so I'm trying to get him to change it.
My mother's will was written that way...everything to be divided equally between surviving children. My brother pre-deceased her, so his widow got nothing. She had informally stated that she wanted to leave her car to my niece (her sole grandchild), my sisters and I had to specifically relinquish claim to it since she wasn't a beneficiary in the will. Niece did take quite a few of my mother's possessions, all of us were OK with it.
My brother didn't have any children so it was a moot point, but I'm sure my sisters and I would have set aside something for them if he did, even if it wasn't a full share.
