Have you ever been left anything in a Will?

Snow-Monkey wrote: »

I got 4 pocket watches and 2 wrist watches left to me bye my grandad, My granny left me 500 Stirling....

That sort of easily portable stuff is first come first served. Isn't it?

newmills wrote: »

You always see it on tele - someone in the solicitors office and he's reading out the will and some spawny git gets a fortune.

Have any of you got anything good or bad in a will?

Great idea for a thread, im dreading the reading of my dads will, cos he has 11 kids. But i just know my step sister will get the house- and i know she will sell it. Makes me so mad my parents bought that in 1963 and did it up and its where we grew up and wouldnt want strangers living in it

gggggggggggrrrrrrrrrrrrr

No my mother actually named me after my rich aunt hoping she would leave me something in her will- and she didnt:D - its pretty much a running joke in the family ha

My grandmother died when I was 12 and I was left all her jewelry. One item was a ring from the 1850's that had been passed down to oldest child in each generation. After my grandmother died my uncle came over from England looking for that ring. My other uncle told him my grandmother had lost the ring before she died. The uncle from England was adopted by my grandparents when he was three (a year before my mam was born). When he was 20, he went looking for his birth parents in England, started living with them and barely talked to my grandparents, aunts and uncles anymore, wouldn't even come home for special birthdays and anniversaries. My grandparents didn't treat him differently from their other kids... they loved him and because he was the oldest boy he got all brand new clothes & toys (my other uncles got his hand downs) and my granddad helped him get his first job which was a really great paying job at the time. My family have no idea why he treated my grandparents so badly. He basically cut himself out of the family so no one wanted him to get that ring.

I've never been left anything, the only relatives that have died so far have not been well off.

I have a couple of rich single Aunties. But I have 31 cousins, so you do the maths!

Anyway for me, the most important things are the sentimental things, like grandad's pipe, or my grannies locket which her engagement photos in it. I'd never bank on getting left money or land. Causes more heartache than it's worth.

Enough money to pay off morgage,buy a car,new kitchen,new garden,pay off bills and a few great holidays.

was left jewellery by two relatives

deise blue wrote: »

Probably slightly off thread but I once worked in an area that dealt with the administration of Wills and one elderly lady had a morbid fear of being buried alive and specified that her veins were to be cut before she was placed in the coffin !
My boss at the time was a rather domineering character and a difficult man to like had to go to the undertakers to be present at the time when a doctor opened the deceased's veins to ensure that her wishes were adhered to !
I can still vividly remember his face when he staggered back to the office even though it's over 20 years ago - funnily enough he was a far easier person to deal with after that experience.

I always thought that clauses like that in wills had no legal standing.... that you no longer own you body when your dead and can not tell people what to do with it.

My mother died when I was a child and it was understood that I would get all her jewelery when I turned 18, for some strange reason my uncles made a big deal out of giving it to me, I got it eventually when I was 22.

I was also meant to get my grandmother's jewelery, but that never happened, just can't be bothered fighting for it. People are so strange.