In the current issue of AARP magazine (no, really, it’s useful), there’s an article about a woman who was unprepared when her husband died and she had to deal with the finances.
Gary and I share the money chores, so that won’t happen to us. Instead, Gary will have no idea how to maintain the garden and I will be lost with equipment that doesn’t plug directly into the wall outlet.
Depending on who goes first, either Gary will have to take a class called “Weed Identification for Widowers” or I will just have to hire someone from Best Buy to connect the router to the laptop to the TiVo to the receiver to the splitter with the Xbox and the DVD player.
If there’s a community college course on that I’ll be glad to take it. I remember Mom enrolled in a course on stocks to maintain Dad’s portfolio, which she did, though I don’t think she made any actual trades in the twenty years she lived on after he died.