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[quote=Anonymous]Try having two days to clean out your parent’s two bedroom apartment in the midst of grief.

Go ahead and drag your feet, tell yourself that you don’t have the energy, much less the will to even step foot in the very place where your parent just died less than 72 hours before but realize that the clock is ticking and you don’t really want to keep paying the $6000/monthly  rent on a vacant apartment.

So, you go and spend an entire day with your siblings and quietly cry while packing boxes and making quick decisions on whether to save/trash/donate and it all feels wrong. An invasion of privacy. Find your parent’s handwritten notes about their failing health, future plans for a surgical intervention, family calendars from decades ago and travel diaries. No time to read but split second decisions have to be made. Toss out garbage bags filled with personal info like old bills and prescriptions - no time to shred and at this point will someone try to commit ID fraud? Gotta head out to the dumpster. Repeat about 12 times. Shameful amount gets tossed when you’re on a deadline and running out of patience.

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