Without specific instructions family and friends may simply throw everything in the trash. It's a huge job going through a lot of quilter's stash, notions, threads, etc. Or maybe just burn it all. Not out of spite or any meanness, just not knowing what to do with it. Ask yourself this, would you want to sort through someone's massive stash of anything other than quilting stuff? I would not. But then, if you're gone it doesn't really matter to you what's done with it, right?