Need advice for friend

[Westcoastwild]

You know, I'm thinking it was one of those things where an elderly person bough them for a charity event or a family gift and then died before giving them. It is the only thing that would explain the collection. And that they were never noticed.

I'd like to say I would have noticed them, but I helped pack up both grandmothers estates after death. There is just no way to go through it all. You get to the point where you're just stacking anything no one wants into the truck for goodwill or the dump, and it's complicated by grief. It was incredibly difficult to get my mother to look through stuff when she was crying over ties that grandpa had not worn since 1990.

 

[osopecoso]

You know, I'm thinking it was one of those things where an elderly person bough them for a charity event or a family gift and then died before giving them. It is the only thing that would explain the collection. And that they were never noticed.

I'd like to say I would have noticed them, but I helped pack up both grandmothers estates after death. There is just no way to go through it all. You get to the point where you're just stacking anything no one wants into the truck for goodwill or the dump, and it's complicated by grief. It was incredibly difficult to get my mother to look through stuff when she was crying over ties that grandpa had not worn since 1990.

That makes sense. This could have been found in a family members home that passed and they just got rid of them.


Same thing happened to me when we bought our first home. The old man died. Wife packed it up and left. We bought home and after closing we went into attic and found a treasure trove of vintage golf items along with old baseball cards and other vintage sports items. We contacted wife to inform her of what we found. She said just keep it which we had her put in writing.