Yeah... my mother died 4 years ago and all her stuff was moved into our basement,
garage, the attic in one of our rental (the one with the huge walk in attic!) and I
have not been able to deal with it for emotional reasons. We needed everything out of
her house so we could rent it pending a decision about selling.
But I think I am ready. this fall I left 3 really really old plants out to die
rather than drag them back into the house. 2- 30+ year old jades and a Hoya we have
schlepped all the way to Minn to D.C. and back. So the rest should be easy. Anything
of worth (yeah, we got an art collection) is going to be photographed onto a dvd, a
list made of stuff worth anything for whoever inherits this. we got a lifetime
collection of DH parents art... well that is really worth bocu bucks and that is
going to be entirely up to my DH to deal with as he is the curator of their art work.
His mother is still alive, his dad is dead. Most of it is in a storage place, but
the sculptures are in the house, in the garage, in the basement, in the "green room"
upstairs that was almost a library before my mothers stuff got here.

WE NEED A SUPPORT GROUP. Our whole boomer age group must be going thru this.
Ingrid

On Mon, 1 Dec 2008 20:26:24 EST, Joan wrote:
When the second of my
parents died, my sisters and I had a huge house full of decades worth
of accumulated stuff. It was a huge job. I do often think I ought to
make sure my stuff is easier to cope with.