Nancy Young wrote:
> Janet Wilder wrote:
>> Christine Dabney wrote:
>
>>> This got me thinking...and thinking about my kitchenware and
>>> cookbooks, among other things. The slightly morbid part is wondering
>>> how to give those to people that enjoy food and cooking, and to whom
>>> they should go to, after I am gone.
>>>
>>> I put this question to the cookbook collectors first of all.. Are you
>>> planning to leave your cookbooks to family? Or do something else
>>> with them?
>>>
>>> For me, (not that I plan to kick off anytime soon) I am wondering
>>> who I would give all my stuff to. I have no family that would want
>>> them. Occasionally, I know we have joked here and in chat, that
>>> various folks here might want the stuff...but that was probably just
>>> joking.
>>> I suppose I could leave the cookbooks to some used bookstore, or to a
>>> library, but I would prefer to leave them to someone that would get
>>> immense pleasure from them... Same with the kitchenwa I suppose I
>>> could leave all that to some worthy recipient, but who?
>
>> If you are leaving the cookbooks to non relatives, don't put it in
>> your will. Depending on your state, they or the estate (depends upon
>> how the will is written) might have to get appraisals and possibly
>> pay state inheritance or estate taxes on it.
>
> That's interesting.
>> The best thing to do would be to put the bequests in a letter to be
>> opened by your executor after your death.
>
> I'd be worried whoever had to clean out my stuff would just call for a
> dumpster. I'd definitely put in a request to do something
> with the books. People might not understand the intrinsic worth of them
> to you.
>
> Locally there was a woman with a very large collection of cookbooks.
> She left them to the library until she found out that they intended to
> sell them off at book sales. I don't remember the details, but she
> wound up leaving them to a library that agreed to build an addition
> for her books and keep them as a collection.
> She must have had a gazillion books and a pile of money.
>
> nancy

Gee, I'd love to know more about that. It sounds like she was
quite a collector!

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Jean B.