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Re: "Priceless Treasures"
By: Rho Date: June 30, 2021, 9:22 pm
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",and still occasionally tries to push items on to me: “Look at
the quality! A really top-notch label!” Yeah, like I want
clothes bought in the 1980s by a 5’2” 18-stone woman?"
Yes Thank You for the top-notch label!
Take whatever it is and know it is one less thing to deal with
in the future.
My MIL handed over outdated, old lady clothes for my daughters.
She was thanked and we never bothered to show clothes to
daughters before donating--and tipping them off to Thank
Grandma.
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Re: "Priceless Treasures"
By: SnappyLT Date: July 4, 2021, 9:18 pm
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[quote author=STiG link=topic=2093.msg67770#msg67770
date=1625016644]
Any chance Uncle Fred is in the early stages of dementia? This
is the kind of thing my Dad would do, at the beginning.
I think you are handling it fine, both the dryer and jewelry
issue. I agree with Rain that when he starts talking about how
he should have gotten more money, talk about the new life for
the jewelry and how tickled the Aunts would have been to see
them on a TV show and how pleased they would be to see the
pieces being used. Lather, rinse, repeat as often as needed.
[/quote]
I'm agreeing that this may be an early sign of dementia. (Or
not!)
My mother had Alzheimer's. Fortunately, another illness took her
over a decade ago, before the Alzheimer's got too terrible.
Anyway, reading your story reminded me of selling my mother's
own home after she moved into a memory care home.
I waited a while until she herself agreed to the sale. Then it
took a long time for her house to sell, both because it was in a
small rural town and because influential relatives had insisted
at way over-pricing the house at the start. (If it had been in
the suburbs where they lived it would have sold for more than in
a rural town with few new jobs to bring buyers to town.)
We lowered the price several times and finally found a buyer. I
was pleased to sell the empty house before it was vandalized. I
also thought the price was fair market value because, if the
house was worth more, why didn't it sell at the higher price
points?
I was concerned about what my mother would think about the
price, though.
Her reaction? She asked me what my dad had paid for the house
when he bought it in the 1940s before they were married. I told
her the amount. She was paid ten times the amount my dad had
paid for the house in the 40s, so to her, she'd gotten a really
good deal.
Phew!
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