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No one in my family likes them. They also don’t know how much they are worth.
I was talking about it with my mom and I remember telling her that I guess since I don’t have a husband, a boyfriend, or children, I guess everything would be split with my sisters.
I can just see my windstones being sold at a garage sale for maybe a few dollars each. Ouch. If they don’t end up at Good Will that is.
I don’t know honestly what to do with them. If I found out that I had some terminal thing then I’d probably sell off my collection here. You guys are probably the only people I know that would appreciate them. I wouldn’t even care if they didn’t go for their worth, as long as someone cares for them. After all, I see people on this forum as friends. 🙂
Do you need a lawyer to make a will or can you just make one up yourself? I’ve been after my husband to sit down with me so we can make one. I know if anything happened to him his family would give me a fit wanting everything.
I don’t know about the states but, in Canada we have a will kit we can use. I’m not sure but maybe it needs to be signed by a lawyer. I need to look into these things one of these days.
purpledoggy wrote:Do you need a lawyer to make a will or can you just make one up yourself? I’ve been after my husband to sit down with me so we can make one. I know if anything happened to him his family would give me a fit wanting everything.
Here there are three types of binding wills, but you have to write your will out by hand. My rough draft would be done on the computer. I’m not recording the 5,462 things (guesstimate 😛 ) by hand.
You can do wills, living trusts, etc. yourself with software such as Quicken’s “Willmaker,” which is highly rated.
WELL I did NOT expect such a large response in such a short time frame. I’m glad most of you thought it was a good thing to bring up. I hope it helped some think about how to make sure your Windstones and everything else is taken care of
once I started adding it up just in Windstone’s and Franklin Mint items alone I muast have close to $30,000 invested I would HATE to think someone would back up a dumpster and load it up or sell everything at a garage sale for a fraction of it’s value
I know my mother would take my Windstones; she does enjoy and appreciate them, and has an idea what they’re worth. (so some might end up on eBay rather quickly!) I’ll be inheriting her pieces, which makes me quite willing to buy them for her lol.
After she dies or if she precedes me, my daughter would probably get them. She’s only 7, though, and only knows that they’re something Mom and Grandma like. My fiance and other relatives don’t care for them and don’t have a clue as to their value.
As for my other things, my mom would take my handful of old Breyers and the few non-Windstone dragons, the shells and rocks would go to my daughter or the dumpster probably, my mom and sister would fight over the orchid plants, my mom would take the Australian Shepherd dust collectors, and the My Little Ponies I’ve collected with/for my daughter would probably be eBayed or Goodwilled (maybe dumpstered).
I’m an organ donor, and my family knows it- also that if my organs should not be wanted or needed, that my body is to go to a medical school or body farm.
Actually, this is a very wise topic for a thread, DM!
Greater Basilisk wrote:What’s special about will software? Is it like Excel, where you fill out charts?
Actually, its analogous to tax software (e.g., Quicken’s “Turbotax”). You give the program all of the relevant information via a step by step interview, then the program generates all of the legal documents, which will be in accordance with the laws of your particular state.
Well, if I go anytime soon I hope my family keeps at least some of them, ’cause I intend to stick around and watch my kids grow up and I’d like to look at my dragons occassionally! 😀
Seriously, I think my family would keep some, but this thread does make me think it’s time to write a will.you never know what is going to happen my mom was only 67. I have heard that a living trust seems to be better in may ways from a will. I do not really have anyone left that I would want to leave anything to family wise so I really have to think about where my things will go.
mimitrek wrote:Greater Basilisk wrote:What’s special about will software? Is it like Excel, where you fill out charts?
Actually, its analogous to tax software (e.g., Quicken’s “Turbotax”). You give the program all of the relevant information via a step by step interview, then the program generates all of the legal documents, which will be in accordance with the laws of your particular state.
Sounds good. 😀
Pip – I like the idea of donating organs. It’s something I’d put in my will too if I ever got around to writing the thing.
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