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The cheapest casket you can get in a funeral directors is what?...£400 or thereabouts?

£110 for it wholesale...

Cheaper ones on the internet.

Its the "care of the body"that makes it add up along with the hire of the hearse and cars and flowers......We skipped all that bit except for one night in Funeral Parlour (on others insistence)and a hearse from there to Crem...

Dont start me off.....

But really it is because in this day and age no one wants to "care for"their own people.....All the old front parlours are now centrally heated,so its not possible....

Ohhh Sylvs - I thought you had gone aready !!

DO have a good trip.

We will sort ourselves out in your absence but look forward very much t your return !!!

Dea Xxx

funerals are expensive


but isn't there a "death benefit" you can get from the state?


I seem to remember that my si-i-l got that for my brother



mind you, that was back in 1991!





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Hi all
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just finished my lunch, and about to go and finish packing the food.

Then OH can pack the car, and off we go!




have fun


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Indeed Dea - luckily we were in a position to pay but heaven knows what people would do otherwise. I know funeral companies offer "payment plans" so I guess that's what a lot of people have to do.

Most of our elderly relatives all had little insurance policies where they paid a small amount every week to the insurance man (they used to call weekly when I was little) so there was never any worry for the other relatives.

Thinking back to your posts on that funeral Fans - I think I would like you to taker this over for me.

I could do with a 'little laugh' and am sure his friends would appreciate your efforts too !!!

Dea Xxx

Lets face it Fans....no local authority is going to leave you 'rotting' on the side walk!

Chuck me in the Don....but leave me whole thank you!

I don't lke to think that my brother could be classed as a 'pauper', but I suppose he was really, but I am not on benefits so I don't suppose there is any help there !

I will gladly pay for what is needed but it will be arounf £3,000. just for the basic necessities. I just wonder what people do who just can not afford this ???

It must be so sad and worrying for them !!!

Dea Xxx

Hope you both have a nice time away, Renes and Sylvia. You deserve it.

Just reading what Dea said about cost of funerals - my estranged father died 10 years ago (hadn't seen him for many years). I was tracked down as next of kin and so started making all the arrangements etc. Went for cheapest funeral option (the hospital where he died offered a "paupers funeral" but I couldn't subject even him to that). Funeral director quoted £1550 which I had no option but to stump up (he didn't have any insurance that we could find).

After the funeral me and Mr C were clearing out his council flat and Mr C shouted for me to come and see what he'd found at the back of the airing cupboard - a brown envelope containing exactly £1550!! (It was old & dusty so must've been there for some time).

You can apply to Social if you are on benefits for some help...About £900 I think is max,but the deceased has to be a pauper and have no near kin with money to get it...

The price is awful and money should be for the living I think....

Thats why Bezzie and I did DIY for her hubby although we did have to transport him a bit of a way in a hired van...But it still cost around a Grand in all and without flowers at that...Some wild flowers were picked and placed on coffin though

Probably not making sense Ginns - I is a bit tired !!!

Dea Xxx

Good grief Dea...theres a move from one to the other!

And my dad would have shot Cyns down in flames about the ashes....ashes, ashes.......but I'll leave it there ;-)

People choose not to marry because its too expensive to divorce?

My Gawd !!

I never understood why people choose not to get married nowadays because it is too expensive BUT I now understand why they would not choose to get buried/crematedf !!!

How do people cope who really do not have any money ?????

It must add very greatly to the distress!!!

Dea Xxx

Have a lovely break in Almeria Renes - you deserve it !!! <3

Fans - Don't talk to me about 'Hurricane Grandson's' - mine has just gone home after 1 whole day and I am totally k#####er !!! - Mind you, he was accompanied by big sister which makes things much worse!

They are lovely children and wonderful together but if he is on his own I can get him to have a nap in the afternoon which he SO needs - when they are both there this doesn't happen so he gets SO tired and they are VERY hard work.

Anyway, enjoy the 5 days and let us know if you are still alive at the end of them !

Dea Xxx :-D

Keep up with her?


I don't think he'll have much of a problem there! Poor little chap will probably be bored silly watching GrannyViv moving slowly twixt computer and chair.



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Fans, you mean............if he can keep up with you :-D

Renes..

Me BE GOOD????Yer avin a laugh aint yer??Nooooooo fun in that is there.

I am an aging disgracefully GrannyViv and intend to stay that way thank you and have my little "Hurricane" Grandson back on Sat for 5 days(On his own) so we can both be naughty together...If I can keep up with him...WHERE do they get the energy from?????

Have left you a little note on your fb post... :-D

Hi Renes, glad to hear that you feel up to a little bit of visiting. Just a little break will help. <3

Hi All

Just to say I am also going away i to the wilds of Almeria --- Acebuche to be precise ---

Staying with our best friends --- who work/live in Acebuche during the week - returning here w/e

Not sure of their internet connections ... so may not be around till Friday night

So take care and be good

Renes

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Dea is preparing for the invasion of her grandchildren Gins.....poor thing will be a grease spot by tonight.


Thanks for breakfast Sylvs - enjoy your break ~~~~~~~


Going to be late into my voluntary job as OH is slow this morning. Won't go till I know he is breakfasted and pilled up!


Grace......will pm you later rather than put loads of stuff on here about autism...this lot are fed up of it !!!