10 things you don't know about me...#3

i love wills

i love reading them.  There's just something interesting to me about the disbursement of property and personal items that i find intriguing.  This all started when i was in the 6th grade and my Great Aunt Sara passed away.  She left something to everyone of her brothers and sisters, nieces and nephews, and great nieces and nephews...which i was one of.  At the time i was only 12 and didn't know anything about wills, but Mom, who was Aunt Sara's executor, showed it to me where my name was listed and what i was to receive.  i was thrilled and honored that Aunt Sara had remembered me in such a nice way.

After that, literally, i would search high and low for old family wills. i found them very interesting and for me, at a time when i was just learning to love antiques and heirlooms, it was fun for me to see what my relatives possessed.  i'd ask Grandmother, usually, about certain pieces and what happened to them because some wills of certain relatives changed multiple times...i found that interesting as well.

i'd get books from the libraries about wills....giving examples of them and teaching how to write a proper one.  i found, and still find it, absolutely fascinating....morbid though it might be to some people lol

i don't enjoy, however, wills where it is obvious someone is being punished out of temporary anger.  i don't think that is a moral thing to do, because there isn't always time to go back and change what you've done before you die.  Or wills when the person writing the will has obviously been taken advantage of.  i had a cousin who was used by her neighbor and several other people and it showed in her will as to the amounts of things she left them as opposed to her family who had taken care of her most of her life.  That was infuriating.  But, karma's a bitch sometimes and it did come back to bite those people in the behind....not that i wish ill things on anyone, but hey, it happens.

So, there ya go.  i love to read wills.  i should've been an estate attorney.  i'd seriously thought about it at one point in my life.  i use to have a will of my own, years ago.  i think i need to find it and have it re done.  i'm afraid, with all of my stuff, that it's definitely going to be a long one haha  So if you want anything...just speak up....i'm kidding...sort of  LOL