Welcome to European Tribune. It's gone a bit quiet around here these days, but it's still going.
Display:
Ha. Insert cyncial remarks about adult children here.

I know older people - not related to me, I hasten to add - who rely on their estate as a form of power over their children. Assurances from their children that they don't care about the money would be precisely what they don't want.

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Mon Mar 26th, 2007 at 07:16:37 AM EST
[ Parent ]
In fact telling them that you won't need/want their money and they should enjoy life while they are alive is seen as an insult.  You may even be seen as 'jealous' and trying to hurt their feelings...

The more you have when you die the better you are...really...don't you believe me??

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. Oscar Wilde

by Sam on Mon Mar 26th, 2007 at 07:32:02 AM EST
[ Parent ]
Now...where did I leave that note on how to bring your wealth with you to your afterlife...

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. Oscar Wilde
by Sam on Mon Mar 26th, 2007 at 07:33:45 AM EST
[ Parent ]

Display:

Occasional Series