Strange or unpleasant things you've been left in someone's Will

[RogueFemale]

About 10 years ago, a friend of my late mother's died, 20+ years older than me, single and childless. She lived abroad, and we'd occasionally meet up when she visited London, as she'd known me as a child, and we shared a loathing of my late mother's last husband. She had a drink problem so I increasingly avoided the meet ups. It wasn't much fun hauling her staggering along the pavement onto a bus and hoping she'd get off at the right stop for her hotel.

Anyway, she died, and I got an email from the executors saying they'd like to pass on her bequest.

It turned out to be a case of 12x bottles of shampoo, with an accompanying message from the deceased saying she hoped I'd remember to wash my hair more frequently in future. I didn't reply to the executors' request for a delivery address.

Anyone have a similar experience?

I do hope you took your half.

There seems to be a pattern here.

It's an easy swap, I reckon.

@ARichtGoodDram my DSF made me the executor of his will without asking me first so it came as quite a shock because he was heavily in debt. I'm still trying to sort it all out. He had dementia at the time he wrote his will so that could have had something to do with his choice.

Both the parrot and my dm are no longer with us unfortunately. It was hilarious though. Used to bark like a dog when there was a knock on the door too.

I would have loved to inherit a parrot! 🦜

I do hope you took your half.

No, I didn't. I wanted nothing from him. I hadn't seen him since I was a teenager and the only times I'd seen him since I was 7 was when he turned up battering my grandparents door or in weird social work/family court setting on two occasions.

My siblings chose to make contact with him when we were informed he was dying. I wasn't interested. His actions showed that he was still the spiteful prick he always was.

I declined the inheritance both because I wanted nothing from him at all, and because what he had was, imo, very dubious. A drunk with a drug problem who never worked an honest day from the age of about 25, but had the charm to have relationships with several wealthy women. Two of whom left him a lot of money when they died that most likely should have gone to their families.

I'd have handed that over to a solicitor and declined tbh.

Debt laden estates are so tricky to deal with!

@ARichtGoodDram can't afford a solicitor, unfortunately.

I’d love a parrot.

my (abusive) mother sent a letter via her solicitor to me and my brother after she died detailing over several pages how much she hated us. Loads of bile about how she wished we had miserable lives and that we deserve to be unhappy and she hopes our children are nasty to us. Total narc rage just because we refused to allow ourselves to be abused by her anymore and both went NC for the last six years of her life.

But I’m glad she wrote that letter because it totally confirmed my opinion of her and that our actions had been correct. She wanted to hurt us but chose the wrong method……if she’d written a letter telling us that she loved us and she regretted stuff that would have been upsetting.

Wow that's mean

Unhappy woman, I'm sorry you had an awful mother. My mum wasn't great, either, but my dad was the worst. After he got struck down by vascular dementia (happened suddenly, not a slow decline), I found a piece of paper at his flat where he'd written down his 'wishes' (things to be given out, separate to money in the will), and at the top of the list was his second wife, and by her name he wrote 'Nothing'. Then I was #2 on the list, and by my name he wrote 'Nothing'.

I'd done nothing nasty to him, I'd just gone no contact after it dawned that he was toxic a few years before.

That's exactly what is so wrong with abusers! It helps the abused though. You're completely right - if they apologised post death you would have been left with far more complex emotions. But of course she didn't as she'd have needed a personality transplant to do that

we have our late mil's cat too. she was 19 when she died the cat is now 22 years old. no she is not a sedate old cat. if she is not bringing in baby bunnies, shrews or birds, she is terrorising the dogs but her fave is waiting until I am asleep at night then creeping up and biting me! this is her way of saying she is hungry and she has lots of teeth!

A friend was left 20 cows (that lived on a farm in Ireland)
She lived in a 5th floor flat in Marseilles at the time.