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To: MSB who wrote (66206)	12/12/1999 1:49:00 PM
From: Ish	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

<<I ain't going to be happy if her care-free spending habits come back to haunt SJ and I. >> My mother-in-law was pretty tight when it came to spending a buck. On the other hand she gave every red cent, several 100k, to her church and figured I'd take care of her. I did and her son never kicked in a dime, not even for her funeral which I gladly paid for.

To: MSB who wrote (66206)	12/12/1999 2:00:00 PM
From: Edwarda	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 108807

When my mother and dad came to the point in time where some type of supervised care was needed, they went back into my grandparent's home and found all sorts of things which responsible people would not (or it seems to me) do. They found uncashed reimbursement checks from medical insurers amounting to thousands of dollars which had been laid down and simply forgotten. I do not remember if you were posting on this thread while I and a friend were dealing with "the house from hell." We found the same thing. Uncashed checks, stock certificates mixed in with underwear, money everywhere. Things had simply gotten to be too much for the woman and she literally forgot. Yet it requires enormous tact to take over any part of an elderly person's affairs; even the attempt is a frightening suggestion that they are losing control of their own lives. At the end of a long life of responsibilities, the suggestion alone is an affront.

To: MSB who wrote (66206)	12/12/1999 7:35:00 PM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Isn't it funny how just as you've almost reached a stage of financial security, something else comes along to threaten it? I have been having exactly the same experience recently, so I really understand your concerns about your mother-in-law and the fear that you will have to take care of here someday. I also understand what you are saying about CDs. The problem is that if you are old and make BAD investments, there may not be time to recoup. You and I have both been on the losing end of bad stock picks, Mike--imagine if you were in your late 70's when that happened! When you have time (I respect your efforts to keep SI time under control) you might want to read this article in today's San Francisco Sunday paper discussing what we lose when we are all Starbucked. It also discusses what I would term unethical business practices of Wal-Mart and Home Depot, and what we lose when we become a seamless national consumer culture: sfgate.com