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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Check registers, auto maintenance, insurance policies, old work Rolodex, you name it. It just all seems so pointless. We spend so much time doing all this stuff in life and then it’s just a heap of crap. One day my kids will be looking at my old paperwork (which is at least better organized) and be thinking the same thing, I’m sure.  [/quote]

When I was decluttering my mom's house to move her to assisted living, there was an incredible amount of stuff like this. Room after room filled with paperwork, much of it over 20 years old. I think my favorite example was a cardboard moving box full of phone bills from the 1980s (this was 2010 when I was looking at it) from when she lived in another state. WHY would you keep that? And that was by no means the only paperwork she kept from when she lived in that other state - she had paid to move it all, multiple times, from state to state. Pay the bill and throw it away FFS.

[quote=Anonymous]On a related note, did you ever find embarrassing paperwork after a parent passed away? I just learned that years ago, my mom was fired from a job for insubordination, whereas she told me she quit. I won’t share this with anyone else, but it was sad to read all the back and forth about it. [/quote]

Oh yes. I learned that she'd never lived in a house that hadn't been foreclosed on, and never had a credit card that wasn't taken away for non-payment.  :roll:

She had the money. She just didn't pay the bill.

And along similar lines, I found threatening letters from the IRS about back taxes that she hadn't even opened. I was like, do you think they're going to [i]go away [/i]if you ignore them?

I also found out she got scammed out of fairly significant amounts of money, but too late to do anything about it.

[quote]We found some "dirty magazines" my dad had hidden and some topless photos of his former girlfriend![/quote]

Yes I found my FILs porn stash after he passed away and I thought, "ewww."

[quote]Look at any thrift store now and you will see shelves upon shelves of beautiful old china sets that no one wants anymore.[/quote]

My mom bought some china sets for me, years ago, and for DD after she was born, and I thought thanks, but when are we ever going to use that? We never eat from the "best china".[/quote]

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