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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Buy a condo or rent an apartment when one level living is needed.  Pay for cleaners and other help with tasks as needed.

Eventually, if this isn't enough, move to an assisted living that has varying level of support so both me and my spouse can be accommodated at the same place in the event that we have differing needs.  This has worked well for older people that we know, and for their children.[/quote]

Oh- also adding- that right now, the best thing I do is not accumulate junk.  I clean our house out 2-3 times a year.  Definitely not doing to my kids what my parents are doing to me and my siblings.[/quote]

Good idea.  Do a Swedish Death Cleanse when you are in your late 50s and early 60s.  Sell everything you don't need on FB market place.  Simplify so that you or your kids don't have to do that.

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This is hilarious.  Unless you plan on living for 20 plus years (from your early 60s on) with nothing but a bed, table and 2 dining chairs, you’ll have plenty of junk.  That lovely decorated living room of yours?  When your kids have to dispose of it, it becomes junk.  Ditto your curated wardrobe.[/quote]

I don't think the point is emptying the contents of your house to prison cell level.  What really bugged me about my parents was a 4 car garage full of cars and "stuff," a 2000 SF basement of utility shelves packed to the gills, multiple filing cabinets of papers dating back to the 70s, and several walk-in closets overflowing with clothes and accessories.  This doesn't even include the storage room, which was the entire unfinished space above the 4 car garage.  There was also a separate storage room at a commercial property that they owned.

That's what people are griping about, not the curio cabinet in the living room or the knick-knacks on the bookshelf.[/quote]

So, how much is that house worth when empty?  If they are leaving you hundreds of thousands, spend some of that to bring a few dumpsters and people to fill them up.[/quote]

Me again. You can't just throw everything in a dumpster.  For example, my mom used to hide sentimental family jewelry in her socks.  Not her sock drawer, inside the actual socks.  I don't plan to leave my kids with that volume of stuff, which if you read my original post, is ridiculous.  That's many decades of shopping and hoarding.  It's frankly unacceptable.[/quote]

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