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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Kid here: throwing out your junk was not hard. Stop whining. [/quote]

Cleaning out my mom’s house was a nightmare.   It was time-consuming, costly (plane tickets, childcare, haulers), and unpleasant.  On top of that, it adds tremendously to landfills.[/quote]

I'm with you on time-consuming but it was also a joy because I knew how much some of the items meant to my MIL.  She was a child of the Holocaust and her family came here with nothing.  Everything she had was collected lovingly, with joy and with an appreciation for its beauty.  About 90% of what she had we were able to give away.  Because we were renovating the house before reselling it, this meant that even the kitchen cupboards and countertops and all of the appliances etc were removed and donated to Habitat for the Humanity and other organizations.  The other 10% was taken by her children and families.

It took a ton of time and we were greatly unprepared because her death was sudden and unexpected, and she was young.  However, I will never begrudge her that she lived her life as she (and her husband, my FIL) wanted, and that they had things that brought pleasure to them.  She was happy.  That's all that matters to me.

I don't want to sound to preachy but I'm still gonna … you chose to send your mom's stuff to a landfill.  That's on you.[/quote]

DP, but also sent most to trash.  I did everything to avoid sending it to a landfill. It literally pained me to think of contributing to the environmental disaster that we currently face. No one wanted it. ABSOLUTELY NOONE. Not a charity. Not neighbors. Not friends. I’d wager that my situation is more the norm than yours. It was an awful experience having to sort through all that stuff by myself. I had to leave my kids and husband, travel to where my parents lived, spend like weeks trying to even get a handle on it, and then spend all this time in my empty childhood home sorting stuff. It was so depressing. [/quote]

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