My 2nd MIL was murdered in her home. We were devestated. My SIL didn't want ANYthing. She was in shock. We had one week to get her stuff out of the house. I stashed her recipes and memoribalia in my car. I stuffed that poor car! SIL commented that I was sure being greedy but I informed her that ANY of the stuff was hers when she was ready. Sure enough, I started getting phone calls asking "do you have...........?" One of the things that generated the most phone calls was requests for her recipes! YIP -- I saved it ALL!