Originally Posted by b.zang

My husband recently passed and I'm realizing not just how much "stuff" he had but how much the two of us had together. It's going to take me at least a year to go through everything and I'm overwhelmed at the sheer enormity of the task. If your friend did not have a loving spouse or child who had the time to sort through a lifetime it's easy (yet sad) to understand how the notebook ended up in a thrift shop. Honestly, I'm impressed the thrift shop had it and that the notebook had not made its way into a recycle bin somewhere. Personal items such as that don't usually sell well.