My Mother died last year ...
Now ready to get stuck in and clear the house.
All bills/accounts are paid - and that bit's fine - so there's no nasty mail coming now ... But catalogue crap: JD Williams, John Lewis, Cotswold Co, Lakeland, Scott's of Stow, Chumms (ffs) etc. - no debt to them, but the stuff keeps coming ... Mini rainforest every week!
I've phoned most of them at least once - explained / even fibbed that the property is about to be sold. That's not quite true - but is the plan.
It's not even that it's distressing ... It's just: what do you do to make them believe she's dead and isn't on need of a remote control companion or a thing to open jars?!
My quandry is: Mum shredded everything with her address on on it (I now know why it took her so long to answer the phone sometimes - "attending to the post"!). Seriously, there's three shredders in that house!
Worth mentioning maybe: Mum was British born and had a lovely, but not uncommon British name. My late Father was Eastern European (although naturalised British in the '50s). My maiden surname is even exceptionally rare in my Dad's country of origin.
I have just come home with 6 heavy duty shopping bags of stuff that Mum would've meticulously looked through, tore out pages with her name / address ... AIBU to think it should all go straight into the paper recyling bin?
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To shred or not to shred ... Deceased person's mail
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DanceWithThePoets · 23/02/2016 19:54
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