I’m not sure I understand your complaint about how she spent her own money. She supported numerous companies with that $400K she spent, and she probably thoroughly enjoyed buying these things. You sound like a liberal socialist complaining about how others spend their money.
I am absolutely sure you don’t understand my complaint. Yes, she supported the Bank of America with $20K in NSF fees, and enjoying the purchase of oceangoing containers full of goods she then stuffed into closets so she could never even look at them which now reside in storage spaces costing her $600 a month.
You bet, getting on the internet and pushing buttons is worth tens of thousands of dollars in sheer pleasure. Because anyone can see that having say a dozen Lady Diana dolls with the teeny fur coats and tiaras is totally inadequate, you have to have at least 35 of them so, I suppose, you can relive that Star Trek episode where all the identical women fembots are running around. So you had better buy 42 of them in case any get into traffic accidents while you are not looking at them. And maybe half a dozen Jackie Onassis dolls so they can swap clothes.
She supported me with over $20K in fees associated with packing up her goods. I am totally in favor of the redistribution of her wealth, like a good socialist. You’re right, you have me pegged. By allowing her condo to go into foreclosure twice, she altruistically paid all manner of fees and late charges to collection agencies and responsibly failed to pay electric bills, property tax bills. She received great value for all those fees and undoubtedly that was part of her joy. She obliterated her credit so that she could not purchase a home nor even qualify for a rental except for cash, but she spent the cash. Pretty cool. Then she had to have her attorney plead for her to get an advance against the estate so she could incur $3-5000 in legal fees to gain access to money she already had but spent on antique tea sets and napkin holders. She got the advance but we determined that her condo had over $29K in water leakage damage she knew nothing about because she in essence abandoned the place, so that, too was a total waste. She bought not 2 or 3 banquet-sized silver-plate platters weighing 35 pounds each upon which you’d have to have a 75 pound piece of meat to be in scale when she can’t even carry 20 pounds; but 27 of them. What’s not to like?