How to close your loved one's estate? Part 1: their physical stuff
I've been given a writing prompt: teach someone on how to close an estate. Make it generic, though, I'll never meet the person. This is frustratingly hard, trying to go from 1 to 1 to 1 to many. But here's an attempt.
I'm going to assume we're through a few stages: the person's contemplation of death, their actual passing, and their earthly remains have been attended to as we pick up this story. Now you're left with the detritis of their time as a human on this planet. It's your job to handle it. What next?
I've never actually cleaned out anyone's house. I helped my sister a little bit after the funeral: her husband was the same size as my husband and he inherited Mike's clothes. My grandmother's belongings were pawed through by us after the funeral, too. It felt unseemly because she was barely dead, but we were all gathered then so that's when we did it. In both cases I wasn't the person in charge. I need to get more input from people. Anyone here have any tips to pass along?
I know we have six months in MA to dispose of a gun before we're required to go get ourselves licensed. Anyone have any stories about that?
I've talked with animal shelters about what they want when they get a pet at someone's death. Anyone have any stories about that?
This part is all questions for me: I haven't done any of it myself. I don't feel qualified to write about it.
Anyone want to tell me their stories?
I'm going to assume we're through a few stages: the person's contemplation of death, their actual passing, and their earthly remains have been attended to as we pick up this story. Now you're left with the detritis of their time as a human on this planet. It's your job to handle it. What next?
I've never actually cleaned out anyone's house. I helped my sister a little bit after the funeral: her husband was the same size as my husband and he inherited Mike's clothes. My grandmother's belongings were pawed through by us after the funeral, too. It felt unseemly because she was barely dead, but we were all gathered then so that's when we did it. In both cases I wasn't the person in charge. I need to get more input from people. Anyone here have any tips to pass along?
I know we have six months in MA to dispose of a gun before we're required to go get ourselves licensed. Anyone have any stories about that?
I've talked with animal shelters about what they want when they get a pet at someone's death. Anyone have any stories about that?
This part is all questions for me: I haven't done any of it myself. I don't feel qualified to write about it.
Anyone want to tell me their stories?