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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not me- I will do this after they are gone. We went through it with my grandparents homes. I can’t imagine asking them to throw away the lives while they’re still living.[/quote]

I was listening to a podcast that discussed how people resize at various times in their lives eg living in a dorm in college, working overseas, moving  across the country, serving in the military, getting married etc, and that retirement and aging is another change.

Having too much stuff may be stopping older people from moving to a smaller more convenient/safer type of accommodation such as a condo where they don't have too worry about maintenance, the garden and stairs. That is an important reason to consider downsizing rather than being anchored to an inappropriate sized house being used as expensive storage for stuff they no longer use.

Also it gives the senior control over giving stuff to relatives while they are alive rather than having heirs fight over it when they are dead.[/quote]

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