Article: "Cleaning Out My Parents' House Taught Me What's Enough" by Lisa B. Samalonis

Good Article. I am lucky because I have moved 19 times in my life and each time I gave or sold things I no longer needed nor wanted.

I feel sorry for people who, like my brother, who has lived in the same house since 1973. His house is full of "stuff" and the sad thing is that most of it will be thrown out after he and his wife pass on.

Solution: Declutter now before you are too old and you just become a prisoner of your STUFF!
 
Packerjohn said:
Good Article. I am lucky because I have moved 19 times in my life and each time I gave or sold things I no longer needed nor wanted.

I feel sorry for people who, like my brother, who has lived in the same house since 1973. His house is full of "stuff" and the sad thing is that most of it will be thrown out after he and his wife pass on.

Solution: Declutter now before you are too old and you just become a prisoner of your STUFF!
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I won't be the prisoner of my stuff...my daughter will be! :ROFLMAO:
 
Three years ago we had to put my mother in a nursing home for proper care. I travelled to her house with a friend and we stayed there for a full month organizing and getting rid of everything; and I do mean everything! My brother and his wife live close to her but they are both dreamers, not doers:mad: so they were no help.

What a stressful, tedious and physically exhausting job that was!! The two of us worked morning till night every day for a month getting it all done. I'm still in disbelief that we were able to get it all done by the closing date of the sale of her house. Never again!!!

If you love your kids or whoever is going to have to clear your house when you pass on, please be considerate and declutter a little at a time and make the big job down the road easier.
 
when your parents pass and they lived in your childhood home all those years, take a couple weeks off, do diligence and have yard/garage sales, haul the rest to Sal-Vals and Goodwills/Mom an pop shops. Why pay people to do what you can easily recoup your lost wages doing. You find some cool stuff that you want to remember that a way.

With all that said We spent over a year getting the home ready for sale and mt ing it of stuff.
Inlaws bought it. it was a good thing retired played our part. The heavy equipment played a huge headache part in all of it. Most was in great shape and it stayed with the acerage.
 
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