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Its never too late to deal with the clutter
January 24th, 2010
I stumbled upon this post from Uncluttered about dealing with someone’s stuff after they passed. Unfortunately, this has been me for the past 4.5 years (13 if you count my great-grandmother’s things).
Everytime I try to bring up the subject with my grandmother, she throws a fit (yes, old people can have tantrums too) and cries which forces me to lay off. I tell her how holding on to their stuff cannot be healthy for anyone.
A few weeks ago she asked for my Mom’s table. I told her she can’t have her table until she gets rid of the one that she has. After all, I had to sell quite a few of my things in order to have my Mom’s things in my apartment. She agreed and we will move it in the spring.
With the table out of the way, it will finally give me time to go through the rest of the things in storage and finally start to clean it out once and for all.
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karen Says:
January 30th, 2010 at 7:55 pm
I am careing for my mom. She keeps everything. When she could not care for herself at all and we needed room in her room to get a wheelchair in there amoung other things. I had to start tossing and giving away stuff. There was a path to her bed from her door and that was it. It took days to get it cleaned out. It was hard on her and me. but had to be done. I feel for you.