This question can really go two ways. 1. whether to share private information with family and 2. whether to share all the items in a house…
After losing my aunt recently I’ve been working on going through her years of accumulation. Lots and lots of stuff! For now I’ve been working on sorting into piles based on maybe keep, definitely keep, donate, and sell… Really the definitely keep is a fairly small amount, though I loved my aunt immensely I don’t need all her things. I’m still amazed at the number of collections, some of which I suspect she was taking to flea markets and selling. For example: Sports cards, thousands and thousands of sports cards — those I’ve donated to the local museum to sell to raise money. Calling Cards (who knew people collected those), socks, hats, gloves, shoes, christmas and halloween decorations, craft items…. the list goes on and on. I’ve got a pile of knives (and pocket knives), watches, and eye glasses. I saved a couple bins of socks and am sending the rest to donation. Little knick-knacks I’m just boggled by the sheer volume.
My aunt and I had discussed her items a couple times — no matter how much you discuss items there will be things you didn’t think of. Every so often she would mention that she was afraid to leave me with all this stuff to deal with and I’d point out my mother’s house was the one I was really worried about and that my aunt…
