Guys trying to grasp at every penny even after death, do themselves and their loved ones no service.
Penny grasping is so prevalent among shotgunners it should be a requirement for ATA membership!
I had to clear out and sell my grandparents' house when they passed and went on a search to find the value of the things my step-grandmother had collected over the years. Dolls and plates, and other things I was unfamiliar with looked to be of some worth but in the end weren't really all that valuable. The majority of it wound up donated to charity. I had her extended family come through and see what they might want as mementos and got her heirloom silverware to a son's family.
A few years prior, she had foreseen her decline and asked my wife and I if we wanted anything. I gladly accepted a wooden oven rack puller shaped like a squirrel, and thought it was odd for her to be doing this, but then she showed me her will and asked me to go through it for her. A wise thing to do, and it revealed the things she thought of value, to be distributed according to her wishes, but also that she had no real care for the many small things that filled the house itself.
Their cars had been given to grandchildren, my grandfather had sold/traded/given his firearms away long before, so wrapping up their estate was fairly easy compared to what happens with folks who pass without this sort of planning in place.
