Originally Posted by crash

Another win I had today [sort off] was one of the saddest wins I've [we, including Zoe my wife] ever had.

An Old lady we knew here in Paynesville went into an old peoples home yesterday [old age and Alzheimer's] and her daughter cleaned out her house [to sell it no doubt] into a big skip.

My wife, is a natural scrounger and 'elite' local skip dipper. We couldn't believe the stuff that was thrown out. Among many valuable nick knacks including a numbered limited edition bone handled Eureka stockade pocket knife worth heaps still in it's rosewood box [probably a gift], was a small plastic folder with $230 in it.

We were going to give the money to the daughter until we also found in the skip all this old ladies personal letters, photo's [framed photos of her long distant parents and even one of her wedding], sad little personal treasures and an unfinished manuscript for a new book [she was a published novelist] as well as her personal diaries from when she was a young girl. What [loving?] daughter who cares about her mother could ever throw these priceless family treasures out?

We were so flabbergasted by this 'throw out' of such personal treasures of the lady by her daughter, we decided to keep the money [all she cares about it seemed] as she obviously had no interest in her mother beyond what price she could get for the property.

Did we do the wrong thing?

Sad, sad, Oh such a sad day :-((