Your stash is part of your estate!
03-27-2011, 09:40 AM
#21
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Alaska
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I don't need to worry. My daughter is a quilter and she is only 12. When I need to find a piece of material - I have to go check her stash, she claims almost all of it.
I will tell her to do a PIF to an organization at that time if she chooses not to use it.
I will tell her to do a PIF to an organization at that time if she chooses not to use it.
03-27-2011, 09:40 AM
#22
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Location: Enid, OK
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Sadly NOW is the time to consider what you leave behind...at our guild meeting Monday night we were saddened to learn that a member had just passed. I was stunned, she was the only other person in that guild close to my age..I am 49...she was 55! A sudden heart attack in her sleep, with NO prior heart issue history....just gone...like that...gone...her family has NO idea what to do with her things! So sad....
03-27-2011, 08:41 PM
#24
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Location: S. W. Indiana
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Originally Posted by jillaine
Originally Posted by GrannieAnnie
My hubby will drop everything I own into a burn barrel if one of the gals in the family doesn't stop him. DESPITE THE WILL!
You might want to start giving your stuff away BEFORE you go.
03-28-2011, 03:58 AM
#27
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Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Columbus, Ohio
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I began quilting over 12 years ago. Since then, I have had my sister- Sandy and Carla, SIL - Tencie, Daughter - Jodi go through fabric and divide among themselves fabric that I no longer wanted. Since that time about 3 years ago, I can proudly say I can add another SIl - Judy and Niece - Melody to the group of people who will benefit after I'm gone. My daughter has been advised that she is the sole recipent of my Gammill quilting machine and the fabric is to be divided according to her desires. I know that she'll be keeping all of my Moda fabric. We have allot of the same tastes.
03-28-2011, 04:25 AM
#29
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Tayport. Fife. Scotland
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Originally Posted by jillaine
I have been so astounded by the wonderful collections so many of you have-- huge "stashes" of amazing fabrics, as well as quilts-- finished or not-- either made by you or others, as well as any number of quilting-related items.
We've also read posts on this board about amazing findings at estate sales and yard sales and in Goodwill and thrift stores. And many of us have commented on the apparent ignorance some people have towards the value of the stashes left behind by family and friends.
What do YOU want to happen to your stash/collection after you're gone? Is it part of your estate? Have you accounted for it in your will? If you don't have a will, or haven't accounted for it in your will, have you otherwise communicated to your family what you want done with it?
This is important to me because I am also a family historian. I have a cousin (I can't believe I'm related to him...) who when his parents died, basically put everything out on the curb in hefty bags for the trash people to pick up. Everything that wasn't large furniture. Everything. We lived across the country from each other then, and I didn't learn about his actions until long after they occurred. But I was appalled.
We can't control much once we've died, but we can make our wishes known.
Have you?
We've also read posts on this board about amazing findings at estate sales and yard sales and in Goodwill and thrift stores. And many of us have commented on the apparent ignorance some people have towards the value of the stashes left behind by family and friends.
What do YOU want to happen to your stash/collection after you're gone? Is it part of your estate? Have you accounted for it in your will? If you don't have a will, or haven't accounted for it in your will, have you otherwise communicated to your family what you want done with it?
This is important to me because I am also a family historian. I have a cousin (I can't believe I'm related to him...) who when his parents died, basically put everything out on the curb in hefty bags for the trash people to pick up. Everything that wasn't large furniture. Everything. We lived across the country from each other then, and I didn't learn about his actions until long after they occurred. But I was appalled.
We can't control much once we've died, but we can make our wishes known.
Have you?
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