To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

-Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Also: older eggs. The newer an egg is the more the shell will try and stick after hard-boiling.

I mean, what’s mentioned in this thread is what rich people I know do. Plus saw a lot of it in Palm Beach.

I’ve always thought that Terry Pratchett said it best:

No-one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away, until the clock wound up winds down, until the wine they made has finished its ferment, until the crop they planted is harvested. The span of someone’s life is only the core of their actual existence.

When you coming home son

I like Pratchett’s take. The Tooth Fairy of the Discworld takes the baby teeth and hides them in his domain because pieces of a person can be used for sympathetic magic, like cursing someone, and he wants to protect the kids from that.