The Cowgirl Designer: Baby Boomer Dilemma: Heirloom or Junk?
We loved this article. It is written by an interior designer, and explains what professionals like Estate Inventory Services encounters...
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Three Estate Planning Options for Your Art Collection
ElderLaw Answers is a law firm based in Boston. They posted this informative article about art collections. Collecting art or other...
Who Needs an Inventory? We all do.
Estate attorneys and Financial Planners often ask us to conduct thorough inventories of household and personal belongings. In the...
Boomer Parents: "One day, this will all be yours." Grown Children: "Noooooooo!"
Two hundred stuffed animals, two violins, and a 7-1/2 foot-tall Christmas tree: That was just a corner of the possessions Rosalie and...
Estate planning: 6 steps to ensure your family is financially ready for when you die
When Vivian Young and her then-husband took their first vacation without the kids, the need for estate planning struck them like a jolt....
Why do we collect things? Love, anxiety or desire
About a third of people in the UK collect something. Their reasons and manner vary hugely. For some, like the football fan who collects...
Downsizing Offers a Fresh Start for Older Adults
FOR Dianne Welsh, 63, downsizing from her 3,400-square-foot home to a nearby two-bedroom bungalow did not happen instantly. It was at...
Baby boomers are downsizing — and the kids won’t take the family heirlooms
For 30 years, Pat Fryzel stored her children’s memorabilia, and her grandmother’s, too. But when she and her husband downsized, from a...
Senior Downsizing Tips To Make Downsizing For Seniors Less Stressful and Easier:
1. Check The Layout of The New Place To help seniors downsize, it will be good to find out the layout for the new place in advance so you...
Let's talk about storage units... why clearing out stuff is a financial win-win.
I’ve noticed a disturbing trend in the last 12 months or so. Storage facilities are popping up on what seems to be every available parcel...
10 Good Reasons to get rid of your STUFF
Is clearing clutter on your to-do list this year? Having trouble getting started? Sometimes finding the proper motivation is what finally...
Time to Prepare Your Estate Plan? Consider these estate planning tips
An estate plan helps to ensure that your wishes regarding your health and assets can be carried out accordingly, before and after your...
What to Do With Mother’s Stuff?
How long does it take to dispose of a parent’s lifelong possessions? One month, my sister thought, but I wanted to do it in a week. We’d...
