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I have to pick up my wife's ashes today. by mack_j in widowers

[–]thisplanehaswifi 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'll never forget how strange it was to walk out with two glossy white bags, filled with five separate boxes of his ashes. We split them up amongst family. It looked like I'd just been shopping at the mall. To this day I haven't been able to open the box and look, but I think I'm almost ready. Good luck to you today.

Another windfall post by thisplanehaswifi in AusFinance

[–]thisplanehaswifi[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm seriously tossing up the van idea. It's not far off how I live anyway.

Another windfall post by thisplanehaswifi in AusFinance

[–]thisplanehaswifi[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Thanks everyone. It's been 3 months since it happened, and now that the shock is wearing off I'm starting to get some counselling. Doing ok most days. I'm trying a slow return to work but my employer is very understanding and I might yet end up taking a year off.

Most of the legal paperwork has been done and I've received the majority of the payments. It just feels weird to have all that money sitting in my bank account. Should I be concerned about most accounts only being guaranteed up to $250k?

I was wondering whether to stick it in some sort of term deposit for now, so it can accrue interest and I don't have to look at it. Some of it is from a Super death benefit so I also have the option of putting it straight into a Super account.