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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have mini panic attacks every time I open junk drawers and closets in my parents’ house. But their “stuff” means a lot to them and they want it around. I don’t know how I’m going to handle it (or pay for handling it) when they’re gone, but I’m not going to take anything away from them. [/quote]

When I was decluttering my mom's house before moving her into assisted living, every time I opened another drawer it would be full of the most amazingly useless crap. Like paper phone bills from the 1990s. Made me want to scream. "[i]Why [/i]do you have this? Why why why?"[/quote]

I just dealt with this. My Dad kept every scrap of paper that ever touched his hands. Decades—DECADES!!- worth of paper bills and used up check booklets (with the carbon copy of the check). Need a manual from an appliance you bought 40 years ago (that you no longer have)? But the most infuriating thing he kept was the paper information sheet that you get with your prescriptions. EVERY.SINGLE.ONE for every prescription, every month!! And never threw them away. My parents were taking so many medications so every month the pile just kept getting bigger and bigger. And he wouldn’t let me throw them away ARGH!!! 😠 [/quote]

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