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[quote=Anonymous]Let me know if you figure it out.  My MIL and FIL live in a house that's way too big for them and that they are no longer capable of maintaining (and forget about the giant yard).  My MIL has it in her head that a condo is terrible, for reasons I don't understand (and frankly, neither does she--it's just something she says because she doesn't want to move), and so they will not move until some huge health crisis comes along.  It's really frustrating--they are near-hoarders and have so much crap--I want to tell them that they need to move while they are in charge of sorting their stuff and deciding what to get rid of, because when it's up to me (as the wife of the oldest kid), I'm calling in a clean-up company who is going to get rid of everything.  All of it.  Every bit.  And I'm not going to feel bad about it.

But no amount of nudging helps.  We can't make them move.  And I don't even care where they move to, so long as it's a smaller home.  We can help arrange cleaning services and home health care from here, if we need to.  [/quote]

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