MMIL5

Did you hear that bump? Another offer of the asking price for the old home has been deposited.
MMIL's getting very excited, but feeling a little overwhelmed with the amount of sorting to be done.    
We're trying to encourage her to do as much as she can BEFORE moving! MMIL's suggesting she would have more time to bring the stuff down here and THEN sort it!

She has a cupboard full of old Christmas/birthday cards, saved from the last 10 years or so, nothing of value. MMIL's worried about all the shredding she has to do; she says she can't put the cards in for re-cycling because they all have names in - they're pesonal!!

MMIL has this vision of rows of people in some huge warehouse hand-sorting items and being unable to recycle 'personal' cards. She's fastidiously removing all traces of her name on everything she's chucking out. She's right to be careful: her bank have written to her this week to confess that some scum-bag has her credit card details and has been spending freely for the past week or so! I warned her she shouldn't have joined that online poker club!