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[quote=Anonymous]I had to clean out my hoarder dad's house.  As a PP said, rent a construction-sized dumpster.

The issue with going through everything is that you get decision fatigue.  If I had to do it again, I'd cut to the following idea:

[b]It is worth throwing away some things that might not be worthless, just to save you the hell of trying to FIND those things that are not worthless.[/b]

So what I mean is, if it's not a photo album, money, or jewelry/paintings, throw it out.

Fixing/reselling furniture is hell. A garage sale is hell and is it really worth 1K or so?  Just put it by the curb.

Finally, if you have a sibling(s) that you have a good working relationship with, it's more "fun" to knock out that project together than alone.  I'm female and my older brother and I just went to that house and worked like dogs for FIVE construction dumpster's worth of crap.

BTW we then dealt with the mold and had family friends move in.  They paid us nominal rent and fixed up the place while they lived in it.[/quote]

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