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Its never too late to deal with the clutter

I stumbled upon this post from Uncluttered about dealing with someone’s stuff after they passed. Unfortunately, this has been me for the past 4.5 years  (13 if you count my great-grandmother’s things).
Everytime I try to bring up the subject with my grandmother, she throws a fit (yes, old people can have tantrums too) and cries [...]

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Why a mailing address is not complete

One thing that Gram is adamant about is the local post office.  She’s had a lot of issues with the post office. Well who hasn’t.
She once had a mail person once who would not deliver the mail because the address was not complete, i.e. didn’t have an apartment number on it, or the name of [...]

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Do you know where your elder is?

Every evening at 10 pm,  the local FOX station asks parents do they know where their children are.  However, in this case the question is do you know where your elder is.
I call Grandma several times a day, even when I’m out of town. Some people think  I’m a bit too obsessive, but with Gram [...]

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Planning ahead for a vacation

Sometimes even caregivers need a break.

I recently went out of town for a conference and *some* vacation. Of course I hesitated going in the first place, but after reassurance from other family members that they would check in on Grandma. I was somewhat relieved.
I made sure Grandma had everything she needed including an extra trip [...]

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Deceased Do Not Contact List

I know we hate to think about it, but there will come a time when we have to deal with the inevitable. Unfortunately my time can came way too early when I lost my mom.
While browsing through the USPS site, I found a page about the options of the handling a deceased persons mail.  [...]

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How to save time and money before going to the supermarket

Lately, supermarket circulars have been finding their way to Grandma’s door. So when she call and asks me to pick something up, I had no clue what she was talking about until recently.
So I figured out that there has to be a better way. So I decided to see if the supermarkets in question had [...]

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A Loaf of Bread

They say that a slice of pizza is the barometer of NYC transit fare. What about a loaf of bread?
I am Forbidden (yes, that’s a capital F) to get bread for Grandma that’s above $2.00. She says that it doesn’t make sense to just give away money.
Often I am lectured about back in the day [...]

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Delivering packages to the elderly

Every once in a while, Grandma receives notices from the post office saying that she needs to pick up a delivery. The thing that she was in the house all day. How long does it take to ring the bell and deliver a package?  They should at least see if the person is home first [...]

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Ugly Betty focuses on caregiving

On the show, Betty and Hilda’s father is recovering from a heart attack and both sisters wrestle with the question of care giving. This episode hits close to home for many people today. Can one or two people can realistically take responsibility for a sick or elderly relative. In the end, they learned that [...]

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Paper vs. Electronic Billing… the debate continues

Every month like clockwork, I hear from Grandma “What if people don’t have their own computer?” Then I say, “That’s how come you have me.”
Of course, she means that everytime a bill comes in that says “switch to paperless billing”, she snickers and says that everyone doesn’t have a computer.
What is being done for people [...]

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