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[quote=Anonymous]Wow wow wow. I had been sympathetic until that rude update. I am going to try and give you the benefit of the doubt that you are feeling frustrated by the realization you have been massively wasting your time and lashed out. Because you absolutely have been wasting your time storing anything more than a few items with significant sentimental value.

My grandparents also thought their stuff was super special and valuable. As you have heard ad nauseam most of it is not. My grandmother had some very expensive jewelry- that held its value pretty well but it was just a few hours work to divide up what people wanted. And your MIL probably isn’t downsizing that.

I have a very old and at one point in time expensive set of wood furniture from my grandparents. We took it partly because we were broke and it was free and partly because they were having a hard time seeing all their stuff go to strangers. We are about to redo that room and that furniture will need to go. No one else in my extended family (which is large!) wants it. We will probably donate it to a refugee resettlement group.

The point is unless someone actively wants something right now, they are not going to want it later. And the majority of stuff is not going to be worth selling. Either follow the advice to bring an expert in or just donate everything. I really hope you weren’t planning to get a storage unit for this nightmare- please don’t do this again in 15 years when they die or put it off until your kids have to deal with it. My mom’s parents wasted thousands of dollars on a storage unit and they my mom had to go through the whole thing while grieving and she threw away everything but some letters and sentimental items. She has vowed not to do that to us. [/quote]

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