# Your dead , what is your family gonna find in your house ?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-dead-what-is-your-family-gonna-find-in-your-house/135063
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [November 3, 2002, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-dead-what-is-your-family-gonna-find-in-your-house/135063 "2002-11-03T04:03:24Z")
**Posts on this page:** 16
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### Author:  [@Flowerchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flowerchild)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2002, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-dead-what-is-your-family-gonna-find-in-your-house/135063/1 "2002-11-03T04:03:24Z")
Okay , I know there have probably been tons of these threads before but when they were around I wasnt here, so I want my own.
If you were to die tommorrow and your family or your boyfriend / girlfriend had to gothrough your things to sell or to keep for memories or something. What might they find that you dont want them to ? What I’m envisioning here is your mom opening a drawer and finding ??? . Well , what would she find ?
I’ll tell mine after a few people have told theirs , I promise . I just dont want to tell 1 of my secrets , have no one post to this thread, and having one of my secrets simply floating around cyberspace. ( Call me cynical or paranoid if you feel that I am )
😃 :o :rolleyes:
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### Author:  [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2002, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-dead-what-is-your-family-gonna-find-in-your-house/135063/2 "2002-11-03T04:16:40Z")
Romance novels. I have 3 or 4 of them. But they have actual plots! Really!
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### Author:  [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2002, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-dead-what-is-your-family-gonna-find-in-your-house/135063/3 "2002-11-03T06:46:03Z")
I’m more concerned about what they’d find on my hard drive…
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### Author:  [@boomvark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boomvark)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2002, 9:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-dead-what-is-your-family-gonna-find-in-your-house/135063/4 "2002-11-03T09:08:28Z")
A thoroughly chewed set of human remains and three somewhat fatter cats, I suspect.
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### Author:  [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2002, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-dead-what-is-your-family-gonna-find-in-your-house/135063/5 "2002-11-03T10:46:10Z")
The hard drive is the sticky wicket. In my actual house, they’d find… Um…
Hmm, they might find some empty beer cans in the trash and figure out that I drink a lot of beer.
Oooh, if they did a cataloguing of my books, they’d find out that I have a wild predilection for J. P. Donleavy novels, totally out of proportion with his actual popularity.
That’s all the controversial stuff I can come up with. Man, I am so lame…
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### Author:  [@Flowerchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flowerchild)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2002, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-dead-what-is-your-family-gonna-find-in-your-house/135063/6 "2002-11-03T15:51:06Z")
okay, small adjustment. What would they find in your house,garage,car, desk drawers at work , and your computer.
Basically what would your family find in the basic hiding places of stuff that you wouldnt want your mom to find.
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### Author:  [@Weirddave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weirddave)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2002, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-dead-what-is-your-family-gonna-find-in-your-house/135063/7 "2002-11-03T16:50:47Z")
**You’re** welcome to my book on grammar.
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### Author:  [@TVGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVGuy)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2002, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-dead-what-is-your-family-gonna-find-in-your-house/135063/8 "2002-11-03T17:06:19Z")
Ahhh, this is the very question that keeps me up at night and keeps me filling dumpsters with old porn… 😃
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### Author:  [@Flowerchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flowerchild)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2002, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-dead-what-is-your-family-gonna-find-in-your-house/135063/9 "2002-11-03T17:09:15Z")
Sorry dave. I didnt know that the grammar police was on my trail.
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### Author:  [@KarlGrenze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGrenze)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2002, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-dead-what-is-your-family-gonna-find-in-your-house/135063/10 "2002-11-03T17:10:24Z")
My TPBs…translated manga issues compiled into a book. No way do I want my relatives to see that. And my IE history…they don’t know about the internet part of my life. Although I suppose I should write a file or something giving them the passwords and addresses so they can inform those I know in the internet of my death.
I certainly do not want them to meet my dirty laundry.
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### Author:  [@Weirddave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weirddave)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2002, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-dead-what-is-your-family-gonna-find-in-your-house/135063/11 "2002-11-03T23:40:28Z")
That’s just my biggest pet peeve, Flowerchild, NBD.
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### Author:  [@Flowerchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flowerchild)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2002, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-dead-what-is-your-family-gonna-find-in-your-house/135063/12 "2002-11-04T00:43:14Z")
I’ll try harder when in you’re? presence. (I fell asleep in english class alot)
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### Author:  [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2002, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-dead-what-is-your-family-gonna-find-in-your-house/135063/13 "2002-11-04T00:52:05Z")
> [@](#):
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> I’ll try harder when in you’re? presence.
_Your_ indicates something belonging to you.
Example: I’ll try harder when in your presence.
_You’re_ is a contraction of the words _you_ and _are_.
Example: You’re dead.
If you get stuck, mentally replace the _your/you’re_ with _you are_. If it makes sense, the correct one to use is _you’re_. If it doesn’t, the correct word is _your_.
Now, in a game of Russian Coding Roulette, I will NOT preview the reply, so let’s see if I got everything correct.
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### Author:  [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2002, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-dead-what-is-your-family-gonna-find-in-your-house/135063/14 "2002-11-04T00:55:22Z")
Yes! I rule the coding world!
(BTW, _a_ and _lot_ are two separate words. That’s my pet peeve.)
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### Author:  [@Silentgoldfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silentgoldfish)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2002, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-dead-what-is-your-family-gonna-find-in-your-house/135063/15 "2002-11-04T01:13:46Z")
I didnt know that the grammar police **were** on my trail.
Police is plural. 😃
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### Author:  [@hardygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hardygrrl)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2002, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-dead-what-is-your-family-gonna-find-in-your-house/135063/16 "2002-11-04T01:31:11Z")
Between the laptop and the Fun Box under the bed…oh well, I’m pretty sure they knew already. It’ll just be confirmation. 😃