'Death cleaning' can unearth treasures | Brief letters

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A year on from my husband’s death, I am actually beginning to enjoy what one letter writer calls the “gentle art of death cleaning” (Letters, 8 April). I have been finding treasure. Today was two tins of old coins, a sheaf of ancient foreign currency notes, a collection of old cameras, a few pipes, and an old AA car plate. All are being carefully kept for my daughters and grandsons.
Susan Treagus
Manchester

• I’m grateful for the advice from the “leading UK experts” about how much food I should stash away in the event of a doomsday scenario (Oats, sardines and crisps: emergency foods to stockpile – and why you should share them, 4 April). I have two follow-up questions: how many toilet rolls is the subsequent diet likely to require, and where on earth I am supposed to put it all while I wait?
Anne Cowper
Bishopston, Swansea