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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Kasia, post: 24703280, member: 31533&quot;]I am still around, though this year and part of the last one saw me downgrading my collection some. Part of the general &quot;Swedish Death Cleaning&quot; concept, which is not really not morbid but more of caring about the burden a passing of someone can place on a child. It means to work on eliminating unneccesary items from your home so that when you pass on, whenever that may be, your loved ones (in this case, children) won&#039;t be burdened with the task of getting rid of my items willy-nilly, and maybe getting rid of items they would have wanted if it was part of a smaller &#039;estate&#039;. This way, there is more chance of them finding out what I really cared about and what is there that they may know already that they want.</p><p><br /></p><p>I had the experience of dealing with parents who left or were in the process of passing on and the mess of their homes and &#039;stuff&#039;. It was not fun. And I know of one relation who had to deal with his sister&#039;s home after she passed and since he did not have much contact with her, nearly everything she owned was simply trashed, because trying to find value in something meant time and wanting to put time into that process, and he did not want to do that. He just wanted the task to be over.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, this process opens a person up to (at least so far, in my experience) the abilty to better choose what activites one wants to do and have in their home. I still want coins, and that won&#039;t stop, but there were a lot of extraneous avenues I had pursued with them in the past 20 years.</p><p><br /></p><p>I now basically don&#039;t do much CRH, though I do pick up some quarter or nickle rolls at times, and of course, I still pick up coins I find on the ground or in the CoinStar machine reject area. I stopped CRH dimes, after realizing I didn&#039;t really like them as much as before, and I mostly won&#039;t do cents, as they are so hard to get rid of and to me, don&#039;t give value. At least with quarters and nickles, they spend pretty easy.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have gone to several local coin club meetings this year and even gave a couple of presentations.</p><p><br /></p><p>I do enjoy coming here occasionally still, but my life has been pulled into other activities as well. I just ordered some Chronicles from Germany (books about cities and their historical families) to try to push back my genealogy some more, as one of my life goals is to get together a really well-researched and vetted &#039;ahnentafel&#039; (basically a family history in chronological form, by generations), at least for my northern German heritage which is 1/4 of my family history and is, by far, the line open enough to follow back into the 1600s and 1700s. My other three lines don&#039;t go back and the places my ancestors were from in those other three lines are not places that have a lot of records extant or histories written about the places.</p><p><br /></p><p>So happy to hear from some people I have not been seeing on here for a bit.</p><p><br /></p><p>And Hello to [USER=98768]@MeowtheKitty[/USER] -- it&#039;s always good to hear from that cool cat.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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