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Originally Posted by Gogar
Ask someone who's cleaned out the home of a deceased parent how they feel about this subject. It'll straighten you right up
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My father died in 2017. He lived alone in about 2,500 sq/ft. Every room had tons of crap, tons of it. Old newspapers that were saved on monumental events. He even saved every owners manual of every appliance, yard tool, and anything else that came with a manual. I even found one for a blender.
It was pretty hard to go through it all. Not necessarily on an emotional level but that did occur at times. Just time drain on stuff that really he just put away and should have thrown out years prior.
The biggest thing was he had boxes and boxes of stuff from when he cleared out his mother and step father's house about 16 years prior. Pretty sure he didn't go through any of it, just couldn't part with it so in a box it went. I literally found his old report cards from the 1940s and 1950s that granny had saved.
I'd say save the cool stuff and pass along but hard to determine what exactly other people will find cool.
My FIL is now alone and has been going through his house and getting rid of stuff. His goal, age 88, is to have it all given away before he dies so that we don't have to worry about it. I'm still waiting for the division of the guns...