Is there anything worse than cleaning out a parent’s house when they pass away?  Not that I would wish this on anyone, but at least when they go to a nursing home first, you kind of go through a trial run of cleaning out closets before the final emptying.  I guess none of it is ideal, but it’s the necessary evil of life.  So there we are, by sisters and I, going through mom’s closets and boxing up or divvying up who gets what when we run across this collection of bracelets.  I’d never seen them before but Cindy said they looked like magnet therapy products.  Possible, but I didn’t know for sure.  I knew mom suffered from arthritis something awful and she was always looking for better pain management. So then the question becomes: what do we do with these?  I don’t have a need for chronic pain management and neither do my sisters.  Yet again, we can’t just toss this stuff.  Mom believed they really helped her be more agile in her later years. You don’t toss that kind of stuff away. My sister Cindy said we could put in on Craigslist but I said no.  That just didn’t seem right.  We packed them up and I took them home with me.

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