Death
- NotoriousREV
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You could drop down dead today. You could live to be 116. No one knows.
Middle-aged Dirtbag
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I couldn't agree more and my parents have been instructed to do so. They want to leave the house for us but go enjoy what they've worked hard for.
(My previous post was in jest)
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Me too - I just can’t convince my Dad of that.
He has a Mortgage Free house worth near a million Euros which is used 15 or 20 days a year (the old Family home) which he won’t sell but is constantly worrying about money.
His 18 year old Mazda’s just died and he’s thinking about bank loans to get another shitbox...
Last edited by dinny_g on Fri Jan 03, 2020 6:16 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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My wife's Grandfather is like that. Lots of money but lives like old man Steptoe. Tight as fook. People are strange!!dinny_g wrote: ↑Fri Jan 03, 2020 6:11 pmMe too - I just can’t convince my Dad of that.
He has a Mortgage Free house worth near a million Euros which is used 15 or 20 days a year (the old Family home) which he won’t sell but is constantly worrying about money.
His 18 year old Mazda’s just died and he’s thinking about bank loans to get another shitbox...
- NotoriousREV
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Both my parents have remarried and either have kids with their new spouse or step-kids. My mum keeps saying that when she and her husband die, they’ll split the estate 5 ways (ie between all her kids, 3 of which are with her “new” husband). That’s the house my 3 younger siblings grew up in. It’s their family home, it’s fuck all to do with me. I don’t want it, I’d feel I was taking it off them.
On the other hand, if my dad does before my step-mum, I’m 100% convinced she’ll leave everything to her daughter and zero to me and my sister, which pisses me off.
Middle-aged Dirtbag
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McSwede wrote: ↑Fri Jan 03, 2020 6:22 pmMy wife's Grandfather is like that. Lots of money but lives like old man Steptoe. Tight as fook. People are strange!!dinny_g wrote: ↑Fri Jan 03, 2020 6:11 pmMe too - I just can’t convince my Dad of that.
He has a Mortgage Free house worth near a million Euros which is used 15 or 20 days a year (the old Family home) which he won’t sell but is constantly worrying about money.
His 18 year old Mazda’s just died and he’s thinking about bank loans to get another shitbox...
It’s more that he had loads of unused but liquid assets and no money...
Grand kids all over the world but “can’t afford to visit them”...
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I worry more about how I'll pay for my latter years than actually reaching them
Friend of mine dropped dead of a brain bleed late last year, no warning for his wife, she came home to find him face down in the kitchen. Guy was about 50 and quite fit.
Plan for a future by all means, but enjoy now IMO. I'm making efforts to eat more sensibly, and doing small amounts to improve my strength so I can hopefully still do stuff as I get older. My parents are late 60s/mid 70s and still go skiing, I'd like to hope I'll be able to do similar when/if I reach their age.
As for inheritance, that's what's paying for my parents frequent holidays I suspect. I'm glad my folks are able to enjoy the fruits of their labours more than wondering if I get anything out of it.
Friend of mine dropped dead of a brain bleed late last year, no warning for his wife, she came home to find him face down in the kitchen. Guy was about 50 and quite fit.
Plan for a future by all means, but enjoy now IMO. I'm making efforts to eat more sensibly, and doing small amounts to improve my strength so I can hopefully still do stuff as I get older. My parents are late 60s/mid 70s and still go skiing, I'd like to hope I'll be able to do similar when/if I reach their age.
As for inheritance, that's what's paying for my parents frequent holidays I suspect. I'm glad my folks are able to enjoy the fruits of their labours more than wondering if I get anything out of it.