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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You say you have young children and that you have been dealing with moving your parents for the past 5 years.

How old are your parents?  Can they help with any of this?[/quote]

OP here—Parents are not in good health. In their upper 80s. Move is to a facility with a higher level of care.

Current AL place will be no help other than maybe allowing us access to their dumpster. [/quote]

Having access to a dumpster is huge actually. If they were in poor enough condition to have to move into that facility in the first place then it’s doubtful that what they brought into their apartment was heavy. I would just roll up my sleeves and start separating out what they actually use from what they don’t use. Toss trash and worn out items.[/quote]

Why would you assume they don’t have anything heavy if they are in AL place? Movers move elderly into AL places too. And people can accumulate a lot of stuff very quickly—especially if they know how to use a computer to order things. [/quote]

I meant that they wouldn’t have been out shopping and accumulating more heavy stuff than what they moved there with.

Definitely decide which furniture will be kept and which furniture will be going to their new place.

Be glad you don’t have to clear out a 3 level house with every closet crammed full and a large shed out back filled with cinder blocks, car jacks and bags of cement.[/quote]

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