One of the reasons why many people do not move into a Retirement Community is the question of winding up one's present establishment.
This is not like a transfer where you shift your family and belongings to another town. Here you are shutting down your kitchen permanently. Last one month we have disposing off the cooking vessels which my mother in law chose for my wife and all that acquired over a period of 40 years. Not easy. You are attached to even inanimate things. Then these have some happening and asuspicious occasion associated with it.
As my wife put it, it is a very tough thing for a women to realize that she would not be cooking any more. It is what a man feels when he retires from his job.
To overcome this many Retirement communities allow Cooking by the residents. So you do have a kitchen of your own where you do cook.
Then winding up the establishment. You have to dispose of all and sundry things accumulated over a period of 50 years or so.
By the way what do you do with all the old Audio Cassettes? More than 500 collected over the years. Many of them bought after some searching around the shops. Have not heard them for years after my last system with a cassette player conked off.
I have a man friday, a boy who helps me in cleaning the house. He works in a nearby shop. I give him all the old things. He sells them and pockets the money. He is supposed to share that with me !! But even he looked at the cassettes with contempt and said "I have about 50 of these lying at home." Any idea?
(Will Continue)
This is not like a transfer where you shift your family and belongings to another town. Here you are shutting down your kitchen permanently. Last one month we have disposing off the cooking vessels which my mother in law chose for my wife and all that acquired over a period of 40 years. Not easy. You are attached to even inanimate things. Then these have some happening and asuspicious occasion associated with it.
As my wife put it, it is a very tough thing for a women to realize that she would not be cooking any more. It is what a man feels when he retires from his job.
To overcome this many Retirement communities allow Cooking by the residents. So you do have a kitchen of your own where you do cook.
Then winding up the establishment. You have to dispose of all and sundry things accumulated over a period of 50 years or so.
By the way what do you do with all the old Audio Cassettes? More than 500 collected over the years. Many of them bought after some searching around the shops. Have not heard them for years after my last system with a cassette player conked off.
I have a man friday, a boy who helps me in cleaning the house. He works in a nearby shop. I give him all the old things. He sells them and pockets the money. He is supposed to share that with me !! But even he looked at the cassettes with contempt and said "I have about 50 of these lying at home." Any idea?
(Will Continue)
