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[Marienkaefer2]

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@Moretofollow wrote:

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@gacat123 wrote:

@Lovingq 

*UNWORKABLE* ??  I can SO  relate to this.  

My 85yo Dad gets very upset and anxious if I even mention going through his VAST piles of old & not so old  magazines.  PIILES AND PILES...

I asked him if we could donate his record albums to the local library and he got very nasty. 

He has not listened to a single album in over 20 years.  

We have a hoarding situation here and it is quite unworkable.  

The stuffed  FULL  basement is another unworkable area I won't go into right now.  He nor my Mother (passed away 6 years ago)  never ever threw anything away.  I recall my Mom getting upset with me because I took our 12year old mattress to the local dump. She wanted me to put our old mattress into our attic?  I took the mattress to the local dump.  

Unworkable in Georgia,

CAT 

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@gacat123 I feel for you because when he passes your emotions will probably run the gamut like mine did, saddened and grief stricken but also angry at the mess now waiting for us.

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This happened to us when my grandparents passed away.

They had tons of stuff in their house.  They never threw anything away.

We always knew that would be a big job coming up one day.

My grandfather passed away first, and we tried to encourage my grandmother to go through things, but she never, ever would.

She passed away two years later.  So, in addition to the sadness of losing them both, we had the frustration of trying to deal with 75 years' worth (that's how long they were married) of clothes, books, household items, pictures, furniture, etc. 

Luckily, we found people to help us go through things, donate what we could and throw away what we had to.  It was a long, sad process.