Dave Chilton
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And again, jewelers are very talented at figuring all the creative ways to get at this and still have it very attractive.
And I think that's a really good idea.
What about things like grandma has left diaries?
And the diaries capture what her youth was like.
Everybody's read through them.
They've made us all closer to her.
We don't want to give them up.
They certainly have no resale value, but a number of the people in the family want them.
Do you ever kind of break with what you said earlier on the VHS approach and then go to a lottery or go to a bidding system or something along that line?
Or is that something you think, okay, this could be the rocking chair.
Let's share it every three months.
We'll move it to another family member.
Yeah.
And you can make electronic versions of things like that now that aren't quite the same, but they still are meaningful.
And you've got the actual memories.
You've got the writing stored electronically and everybody can have a copy or you can share.
A lot of this goes back to what you said earlier.
If you can discuss all of this early in the process, when people are calm, they're not grieving, they're not emotional yet.
It helps so much waiting until the death has actually taken place.
And then everybody's fired up and you've got people on edge anyway, and one of the executors is overwhelmed and there's grief there.