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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We kept 2 pieces of furniture, a set of dishes, a set of mid-mod silverware, photographs, and some jewelry.  Everything else from MIL’s 3 level townhouse we sold, donated, or trashed.  It was really sad because her stuff was so precious to her that she refused to downsize so that she could move closer to us and we ended up ditching over 3/4 of the things that she valued and prized over being able to spend time with her family.  I made a box of photos for us and one for another relative close to her.  I threw away any photo of a person my husband couldn’t recognize and I threw away any photos without people in them.  Eventually, I will send them out to be scanned onto a CD and then we will throw the photos away.  [/quote]

This advice about photos is good - I went through my parents photos and ditched any photos without people. I did consult other family members about who people I didn’t recognize might be, but if we couldn’t identify them I got rid of them. Then I pared down what we had - my parents would take a roll of pictures of each event, and I didn’t need 6 photos of me in my cap and gown at high school graduation. This took maybe 1,000 pictures down to a couple hundred. I had these scanned and shared the files with my family. There were some good ones I was glad to find.

Looking at your list I’d focus on the photos, and hire an estate sale company to handle the rest. [/quote]

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