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

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!

--
Jean B.

Jean B. wrote:
> Nancy Young wrote:

>> 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.

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

After I posted, I looked it up online. She donated some 2000
books. Looking at the website, I think they built a whole library
while they were at it, I remember it used to be just a little building.

http://www.colts-neck.nj.us/library/library.html

I'm going to have to go over there and check out this cookbook
collection, although I can't borrow from them.

nancy

Nancy Young wrote:
> Jean B. wrote:
>> Nancy Young wrote:
>
>>> 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.
>
>> Gee, I'd love to know more about that. It sounds like she was
>> quite a collector!
>
> After I posted, I looked it up online. She donated some 2000
> books. Looking at the website, I think they built a whole library
> while they were at it, I remember it used to be just a little building.
>
> http://www.colts-neck.nj.us/library/library.html
>
> I'm going to have to go over there and check out this cookbook
> collection, although I can't borrow from them.
>
> nancy


Thanks, Nancy. That provides enough information for more searching.

--
Jean B.

Janet Baraclough wrote:

>
> Not cookery related, but years ago I picked up in a jumble sale, for
> 1 p, a 1950s book by Jane Duncan, part of a series which has long
> been out of print.
> . I liked it so much I started looking out for the others and gradually
> acquired all but one of the set.



I read all of her books I could find (in libraries) in the 70s.
Most of the titles began "My friend(s)..." and were about her
childhood on a sheep farm in Scotland but a later one was about
her marriage and experiences in a sugar-processing town in ?the
Caribbean where her husband was the factory manager. I really enjoyed
entering her world.

gloria p