Rosie has been a big help to me in shredding documents and wiping data off of old 3x5 diskettes and REAL floppy disks!
This is all part of cleaning up after my deceased husband. Boy, did he leave a mess!!! I can't even begin to tell you about all fo the stuff that we had to go through...... computer equipment, class notes from the early 1980s, lots of computer books and manuals and carton-fulls of old paper!!
Before he died, Rosie couldn't undestand why I was so pissed off over all of his mess. And Rosie did agree that it was a mess.
But after I started cleaning up, Rosie saw how much that I was throwing out- and she started helping a lot more, There are boxes and boxes of old checks.... these all need to be shredded since the account information on them could still hurt me (if it fell into the wrong hands). And was there financial information on that trashcan full of disks? We didn't know, but we didn't want to leave the possibility open.
Rosie has been a big help in cleaning her Dad's stuff up.... but she's certainly not interested in cleaning up/out her own!!!
My mom has told us she cleaned and continues cleaning her own things for just that reason: she doesn't want us to have to go through useless clutter when she dies.
Posted by: Daisy | June 16, 2009 at 07:45 PM
In an odd way I guess Rosie is seeing her father from a different angle, that will help her to have a more realistic picture of him. It's easy to idealise the dead, but a little bit harder if you're dealing with their stuff, especially when it's useless rubbish and there's lots of it.
Good on you for getting in and dealing with it.
Posted by: Ali | June 17, 2009 at 02:45 AM