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[quote=Anonymous][quote]...[b]My sisters are local and did most of the work so I did not argue when they said they wanted to have a yard sale. (I did not think the profit would be worth our time.) That also took a ton of work over multiple weekends because the stuff was moved to my sister's house and then set up for the sale[/b]. That was this weekend and we got rained on and had to stop about noon. [b]There was still so, so much stuff left. The sister who did most of the work needed to be done with all this. Multiple truckloads of perfectly serviceable objects went to the dump. I am still cringing at the sound of breaking glass and the sight of the piles of clothes and all the stuff that did not sell on the back of the pickup.[/b] At this point more sorting for charity was not an option. We set up a few tables with a free sign on the side of the road but everything else went to the landfill. At that point much of the stuff was damp from the rain. ...[/quote]

OP It is a hard situation. I have done this twice -- both sets of parents, one in MoCo. Parents were neat but the house was packed with ... stuff. She was a smoker and lots of the stuff was damaged. It was too heartbreaking for the rest of the sibs. All the mattresses, curtains, sofas, drapes and so on were smoke damaged. One sib just ran through the house, took what she needed and caught a plane back to the west coast. Everything was dumped everywhere, and I would start to get ill from the disturbed dust/ mildew/ hidden cat pee, etc each time I went over there. We were selling the house and the RE came in and started crying when she saw what a mess it was ... it will never be ready! We hired a junk hauling service, took a deep breath (outside!).The sons/daughters of the deceased left and the wives/ husbands took over. Truck after truck went to the dump. There was no room in the adult children homes for all the ... stuff ... she had collected. It was hard, but it was over. The sib who ran out STILL thinks we should have "had a yard sale" ... forgetting that every object caused them to start crying all over again ... Very hard situation.[/quote]

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