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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It isn't bad like people who have things piled to the ceiling, but here are some examples:

- at least 40 boxes from when she moved into the apartment after living in a house
- many with worthless crap like unneeded pens and a touch tone phone from the 1970s.
- car repair bills from a car she hasn't owned in 25 years
- cancelled checks from the 1970s [/quote]

This is EXACTLY my mom. She had a three-story house plus three storage units full of total crap. Paper phone bills from the 1980s; cancelled checks and bank statements from the 1970s; bills and junk mail that should have been thrown away years ago; etc etc etc. The storage units had Ikea-type furniture from a previous house and she'd moved it across the country just to put it in storage. I was like, [i]why are you paying to store this???[/i]

When I downsized her house it took me at least two weeks of ten-hour days to get rid of all the crap. Some of it went to Goodwill, most of it in the trash. It was incredibly exhausting. When I was going through it all, I'd find yet one more drawer stuffed with old bills and it made me want to scream.

But I reduced a three-story house into a studio-sized amount of furniture and clothes for her to use in assisted living.

And that was only part of the problem... there was the other huge time-sink of sorting out her catastrophic financial situation.[/quote]

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