Years ago I was the administrator on a family estate (there was no will) and it was hell over a couple of years total. All it takes is one sibling who wants everything to make the process one that needs a robust paper trail. It is almost a relief that the kids don't seem to want most of our stuff for when that time comes.

This morning I pulled up some announcements about upcoming estate sales, and the amount of stuff in those houses is mind-boggling. (I'd watched a program about how to use scarves and was looking to see if any of the sales had clothes, specifically scarves). There's so much stuff in the world already fabricated it makes one wonder why we keep making stuff. But of course the answer is that we are a capitalist society based upon selling instead of reselling.