Its never too late to deal with the clutter

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 [...]

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When you have to say “no” to an elder

We know what happens when a child throws a temper tantrum, but what to do when an elder throws one?
Recently I had to tell Gram “no” on several things, thanks to the economy. One would think that she being a child of the depression, that this wouldn’t be anything new.
I tell her that I haven’t [...]

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