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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^^ Guess what, gramma? It was your work to do. Kids did not 'help' you accumulate all that crap, you did.

You're SUPPOSED to take care of this stuff so they don't have to do it when you die.

Oh and stop buying their plane tickets if you're gonna bitch about it later.
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DP.

Harsh, but true.[/quote]

I am so glad that I never have felt that way about any aging person in our family. Beyond harsh. [/quote]

eh, some of the hoarding (or near hoarding) situations that some of the PPs on this thread are describing would be very tough to deal with.  It isn't easy for a grown child to take time off of work and away from their own families in order to help a parent go through......what in some cases is quite literally trash.  Bags, boxes, piles of stuff.  Stuff that belongs in a dumpster.  Stuff that fills closets and rooms.

Imagine spending your vacation time going through decades worth of stored crap.  I can see how that could make a person a bit resentful.

There are two sides to this.[/quote]
This.  I once spent an entire visit with my in-laws helping my MIL "purge" stuff.  We didn't even get through one dresser, which was crammed to the gills with stuff, and she didn't want to throw anything away.  Some of the stuff was really cool--old photo albums and scrapbooks and stuff--but there was just so much junk.  I don't resent her keeping the family heirlooms, but I do resent that every visit involves trying to stay on top of the crap and knowing that it's like shoveling water out of the ocean.  They have to clear paths from their bedroom door to the bed, because of all the crap that she's bought for grandkids (not for events, just randomly, and then she forgets about it, and finds it a year later) and old magazines and books and piles of old clothes, etc.  [/quote]

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