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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I did after my mom died.  I was 28.  It was an unexpected death so I had to empty the house and then sell it.

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Hi PP,

My situation is not as sad as yours but I will also have to empty a house and sell it in the near future.  I feel completely overwhelmed and there are days when [b]I just want to order a dumpster[/b].  But then I fear throwing out the good with the bad...

Do you feel satisfied with how you handled the process?  What do you recommend? What would you do differently?[/quote]

Well, this is about what I did so I'm not sure I'm very helpful.  I'm not a sentimental person so I really don't have attachment to objects.  My brother and I both grew up here and we still have a number of friends here.  One of the first things I did was invite friends over to the house to take what they needed.  My brothers friends were all graduating from college and starting their own apartments---they took the vacuum cleaner, pots/pans, cookbooks, tools, the microwave, cleaning supplies, fire extinguishers, etc.  It was really cute to watch the boys that understood what was being offered vs the boys that were still clueless about setting up a household.

I had just bought a house so I needed furniture.  I hired a moving truck for the things that I was keeping.

Then I went through the house and made piles--clothing to be donated and furniture to be donated.  Jewelry I kept and had appraised.  That which was valuable, I either kept or sold if I didn't like it.  The non valuable stuff I donated.  I went through my moms pockets and purses before I donated them and pulled out the money.  I kept one year of bill records--water, gas, electric, bank statements--the rest of the papers I threw out.  The car and dog went to my brother.

Boxes from the attic that hadn't been opened since they went up there when I was a kid, I just threw out.  I didn't open them.  There may have been good stuff in there but it wasn't good enough to be brought out into the public spaces in 28 years so it couldn't have been that good.  If there were things like my great grandmothers XYZ, I don't know.  Again, I didn't see the stuff in years, why start now?  After the friends took what they wanted and the donations, the rest I threw away.

In all, it took me about 2 weeks to empty the house.

If I had to do it again, I would do it the same way.  I'm encouraging my father to sell his house now so I don't have to do this again.  I'm sorry you are facing this issue.  It is overwhelming and it's a lot of work.

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