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To: MSB who wrote (66177)	12/12/1999 12:48:00 PM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) of 108807

I think maybe very emotionally healthy and thoughtful older people don't want to burden their families with going through horribly cluttered material possessions after they have died. It is really admirable and brave of them to sort through them, isn't it? I know that I am having trouble just paying all my bills on time as I get older, not because I don't have the money but because there seems to be so much paperwork attached to life that it is overwhelming, so I can really understand how as you get older some people build up so much insurmountable clutter that they just have narrow pathways to the front door and the bathroom, and stacked up newspapers, magazines, balls of string and aluminum foil everywhere! I would suggest that maybe your mother-in-law wanted a new car because at her age she would not be able to deal very well with any kind of a breakdown. Older people feel more fragile and less able to deal with emergencies, for obvious reasons. <<She is thinking short-term CD's as an investment vehicle. Take a wild guess why I'm concerned so much.>> This statement puzzles me a little. Is there anything inherently wrong with them? I do understand you are afraid you are going to end up taking care of her; I guess it is tempting to spend the money rather than renew the CD.

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