[cctalk] Re: Estate Planning was: Re: Auction houses vs ebay

I am dreading the whole executor business again.  When I was young I had my Dad, but he passed a year ago, so I have to change that.  I have seen first hand now what the job entails and I'm not really sure my children are up to it - it is a major undertaking. Almost all of my family lives 3000km away too so there's not a ton of younger than me options.  I don't think my wife wants or can handle that duty either.BradSent from my Galaxy -------- Original message --------From: Wayne S via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> Date: 2024-07-17 10:27 p.m. (GMT-08:00) To: jrr(a)flippers.com, "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> Cc: Wayne S <wayne.sudol(a)hotmail.com> Subject: [cctalk] Re: Estate Planning was: Re: Auction houses vs ebay What if you outlive your “executioners” ?You need to have someone a good deal younger than you to be your executor. Sent from my iPhone> On Jul 17, 2024, at 16:24, John Robertson via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:> > On 2024/07/17 11:26 a.m., Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:>> Having just updated my Advance Directives document before going under>> the knife and saw, I thought a bit about the subject of estate planning.>> >> My Lovely Wife, were she to become a Lovely Widow has enough trouble>> dealing with day-to-day tasks.  There's no way that she would want to>> deal with the minutiae of getting rid of the old junk I have.  Since>> I'll be long past the "caring" stage, I've informed her that it's>> perfectly acceptable to my memory to have a cleaning service come in and>> dispose of the stuff by carting it off to a recycler.>> >> It will simplify her life dramatically.>> >> Sorry, but that's what will work for her.  She will not deal well with>> strangers coming into her house, ransacking the place for a bunch of old>> computer gear and musical instruments.>> >> --Chuck>> > Hi Chuck,> > Having had a quad bypass (I'm good!) a few years back I've thought about this a bit too.> > My intention is to have friends act as executioners of my stuff as they too are collectors.> > I do believe if they get money for the stuff it will help my wife out in the future after they cover expenses and their time...the idea is they would simply take everything my wife doesn't want away and deal with the disposal for her and then make some restitution to her.> > These are honourable folks...and my wife knows them.> > John :-#)#>