And in cleaning out the attic, (dear god it was awful) I happened to find this:
OT: My Mom is moving to Assisted Living...
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Did that 2 years ago for M-I-L. She’s a hoarder. “Awful” does not begin to cover it.
As we brought the mountains of $h!+ down from the attic, she was sitting on her @$$ at the ready to intercept most of it and demand that it be retained/stored.
As we brought the mountains of $h!+ down from the attic, she was sitting on her @$$ at the ready to intercept most of it and demand that it be retained/stored.
My mom died back in February and due to not being able to pay her house payment and mine we had to quickly sell it. All of her stuff ended up in our house so our house now has all of our stuff and her stuff. We're trying to go through it and toss/donate but it's a slow process. Got probably 50 old records from the 60's and 70's I guess I'll take to a pawn shop or something.
Someone in the neighborhood has been listing his on a record listing service and selling them ones and 2s at a time. I think he's gone through about 50 now.
Another option, get what you want to keep, and then call a goodwill. They will send crews and load it all. Clean it out. Write off the donation and be done. Did this same about 5 months ago and happy i didn’t move it 3 and 4 times and then ultimately throw it away
My wife's a hoarder, her mother was a hoarder and her two semi-wealthy old maid great aunts in Ireland were hoarders. Our problem is mixed in with the stuff she just accumulated is bunch of stuff that's really worth something, antique furniture, jewelry and artwork. I don't know one from another and she doesn't care...she just likes it all.
Cleaned out my folks house recently. Some of the stuff we threw out was ridiculous. Car purchase contracts from the 70’s. More old work policy manuals and binders than I could count. A billion obsolete charger cords for electronics that were obsolete as well and missing. Reams of printed out emails. Hundreds of magnetic computer tape cartridges. Desk telephones. Tons of 3 day fishing licenses. There was plenty of stuff worth keeping and divvying up but 90% of it was trash.
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I'll see your 'hundreds of magnetic computer tape cartridges" and raise you over 500 cassette tapes of Jack Cristil broadcasts .
When my mom died after being in assisted living for about 18 months, my brother and I just looked at 60 years worth of stuff and decided we couldn’t do it. We both picked a few sentimental things and got an estate sale company to come in and have a tag sale. Everything that was left after the sale they hauled off. The house was cleaned and ready to show. We didn’t make anything but we didn’t have to deal with the stuff and better yet we didn’t have to make a thousand decisions. I highly recommend it.
Go by Scooters Records and see if they may want them. I had some he wanted, some he told me he didn't need. He paid me for the ones he wanted and I donated the other ones to Habitat
When my mom passed I got the good out of the house that was for me. Not much in the grand scheme of things. I had to basically strong arm my relatives into coming over and getting things I knew they could use. Like mom had an entire new living room suite. It went to a cousin of mine that was about to go to college and live in their parents condo. But after that I hired a lady who ran estate sales. She handled all the work. Ran the sale and then donated or threw away the rest. I netted about $3k. But truth be told, I would have paid $3k just to have it done.
Mom had a lot of random junk.
Mom had a lot of random junk.
I did. He didn't want any of them. Majority of them are gospel and Christmas albums. Some classical music and movie soundtracks. And I guess some were pop music of the day. I have no clue. One is the soundtrack to The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly.