Another 2.5 hours 😪

How was your night?

Spent another evening meticulously going through my dead father's paperwork. This old man saved the dumbest shit. SO many folders with just one random bill or statement from the 2000-2010s, manuals for products that been in the dump for years, or a one off receipt for some house decoration you couldn't return and wasn't worth anything of value.

Whhhyyyy Dad, just why!?

And where TF are my two siblings in this process. Especially the one with no job at the moment.

I'm tired.

This page is a permanent link to the reply below and its nested replies. See all post replies »

Jenny1234 · 56-60, F

My dad had all his tax returns since 1964 when he died in 2017. Just why? lol

swirlie

@Jenny1234
With some things that are near and dear to us... like old photographs for example, we tend to tuck stuff away to look at and reminisce over in future years to come as we're sitting around with grandchildren, so maybe in your Dad's case, he felt an intrinsic connection to his tax returns which showed his financial status at the time which he and your mom raised a family from, to then someday compare it all to what he may have been earning in later years of his retirement.

You'll never know for sure, but maybe he use to secretly take out those old tax returns at tax time each year to remind himself of where he came from.

Jenny1234 · 56-60, F

@swirlie yes he was a new immigrant to Canada a few years earlier and worked his butt off to become a chartered accountant so I think both of those combined were the reasons behind saving those returns. So you’re right