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Originally Posted by redpoint5
I'm always trying to help my folks get rid of what accumulates when you see potential value in everything AND have unlimited space to store it AND age slows down how much can be accomplished in a day.
My dad just spent a day patching the roof of the 130 year old abandoned house with new shingles, and it disabled him for 2 days afterwards. The reason to patch the roof; to keep the crap he doesn't need inside, dry.
I told him he needs to be filling the garbage can to capacity every garbage day for the next year.
I just need to carve out 1 day per month to get them moving in the right direction. There's probably sentimental reasons that tearing down the old house isn't a priority, because that's where the best years were spent; first 18 of mine.
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I've lucked out. When my grandmother died and nobody wanted any of her stuff something clicked in my parent's heads. Shortly after her death they asked my brother and I if there was anything in their house we wanted and we both said no. My shortly after my mom started sorting and taking stuff to Goodwill. Their basement has 10% of the crap it used to
Now my in-laws ..... that is a different story.