Not so much a problem, but something I thought might be worth sharing for others .... not many problems we can be light-hearted about, I know and whilst this does have serious undertones ............
I've read so much of people 'stashing money'..... I've posted myself - a year or more back - on my concern about how much cash mum could seem to get through .... and how to account for it (or be unable to) under EPA rules ......
This week, mum (delightfully lucid and high-spirited of late) gave me another lecture on 'What I must do when she pops her clogs' (a phrase I can remember her using since childhood days!!!!!!) Latest - along with 'You do know what hymn I want at the funeral' etc - is that I must check absolutely EVERYTHING in the house before I give it away ... (Sure many of us here have all been through the 'Oh, stop talking like that' scenario at some point in our lives already) .....
Well, for a long time I have known of her cash stashes under certain rugs, amongst bedding, in the cover of a certain book in a certain drawer ....- just the ones she has told me about - in fact when I draw cash from the bank for her there are two specific places she insists I keep her little stashes 'topped up'. I find it remarkable that she can remember these specific places ..... and knows to 'draw off' the cash she needs - but I nearly collapsed laughing when she took off her slipper and showed me what she had hidden under the insole!!!!!!!!
I had always assumed that 'stashing cash' was 'just' a security thing ...... but I rather feel mum is proving she is still capable of some creative thinking here?????? Or is that just being naive?
Oh well, if the COP ever challenge me on my accounting ........ I can always produce mum's slippers as evidence, I guess?
Love, Karen, x
I've read so much of people 'stashing money'..... I've posted myself - a year or more back - on my concern about how much cash mum could seem to get through .... and how to account for it (or be unable to) under EPA rules ......
This week, mum (delightfully lucid and high-spirited of late) gave me another lecture on 'What I must do when she pops her clogs' (a phrase I can remember her using since childhood days!!!!!!) Latest - along with 'You do know what hymn I want at the funeral' etc - is that I must check absolutely EVERYTHING in the house before I give it away ... (Sure many of us here have all been through the 'Oh, stop talking like that' scenario at some point in our lives already) .....
Well, for a long time I have known of her cash stashes under certain rugs, amongst bedding, in the cover of a certain book in a certain drawer ....- just the ones she has told me about - in fact when I draw cash from the bank for her there are two specific places she insists I keep her little stashes 'topped up'. I find it remarkable that she can remember these specific places ..... and knows to 'draw off' the cash she needs - but I nearly collapsed laughing when she took off her slipper and showed me what she had hidden under the insole!!!!!!!!
I had always assumed that 'stashing cash' was 'just' a security thing ...... but I rather feel mum is proving she is still capable of some creative thinking here?????? Or is that just being naive?
Oh well, if the COP ever challenge me on my accounting ........ I can always produce mum's slippers as evidence, I guess?
Love, Karen, x