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The Retirement Thread

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jda
jda
Aug 2022
2:22pm, 2 Aug 2022
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EP, you can pay in instalments over 10 years which should be long enough for the most awkward property sale :-) Of course if even 10% of the IHT is still so much as to require a loan.....then lucky you :-)
EvilPixie
EvilPixie
Aug 2022
2:46pm, 2 Aug 2022
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mum lives in Berkshire ..... and they bought the house 40 years ago ... it has some land

it is def well above the threshold
Hanneke
Hanneke
Aug 2022
3:11pm, 2 Aug 2022
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My will writing, in the Netherlands, has been stalled by covid but needs attention! My niece and nephew inherit 50/50 skipping my sister. We discussed this. My sister is executor and they currently would keep my place as a holiday home, if I get knocked over by a tractor tomorrow.
Need to make a record of sorts, think photo and approximate value, of my art collection and antiquarian books...
Hanneke
Hanneke
Aug 2022
3:15pm, 2 Aug 2022
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And, as my Dutch notary pointed out, think of what to do if the whole family gets wiped out in a plane or car crash... Then I have no-one to leave it to!
I cannot leave it to anyone in the UK because of inheritance tax. Dutch law prevails over UK law in all death related matters! I had started writing a UK will when we found this out!!!
EvilPixie
EvilPixie
Aug 2022
3:16pm, 2 Aug 2022
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we don't have anything in the house that's worth much
I don't even have much in terms of jewellery and even that's not expensive
but mum and dad do have shit - but the problem is they have too much shit!
Hanneke
Hanneke
Aug 2022
3:21pm, 2 Aug 2022
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I am considered to have too much shit... But I was an art dealer for most of my working life and the rest of the time a writer, translator, journalist, critic so books are the tools of my trade and, well, art comes as standard if you work with it and artists...
My ceramics collection however is unrelated.
EvilPixie
EvilPixie
Aug 2022
3:30pm, 2 Aug 2022
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Hann my grandma died in 2008 grandad before that .... mum still has some of their stuff in her double (never used by a car) garage!
She probably has some nice bits but TBH we aren't a "bits" house so would probably keep 1 maybe 2 of dad's nice clocks and that's it
they house is the size of a 5 bed but just 4 and full!
Velociraptor
Velociraptor
Aug 2022
4:06pm, 2 Aug 2022
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My parents have very few "bits". I've said I'll find house room for Dad's boxes and boxes of colour slides (he's put the best of them on computer). We're all pretending that his other neatly boxed and labelled collection doesn't exist. It wasn't illegal when he did the collecting but it is now.
Ness
Ness
Aug 2022
4:12pm, 2 Aug 2022
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That's tricky, Vrap. Mr Ness and i had an interesting weekend helping clear out my stepdad's holiday home in Wales after he died. It was where he'd (according to my mum) got a service revolver from his time in US military service. We didn't find it fortunately.
HappyG(rrr)
HappyG(rrr)
Aug 2022
4:14pm, 2 Aug 2022
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I'm really not sentimental about "stuff". I'd love to read writings, journals, see paintings or any other handystuff from a relative who has passed. But "stuff". Nah, not bothered. Never got or going to get any money or anything from parent(s), certainly don't want their nicknacks! :-) G

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