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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My hang-up is that my parents' home is full of legit heirlooms. Like, the 12-person dining set of some ancestress from the 1840s, lovingly maintained and handed down through the generations. Multiple almost-but-not-quite-complete sets of silver and china. High end porcelain clutter from rich colonial forebears. A bedroom set handmade by some great-great someone who was a renowned artisan. And oh my god the art. SO much art.

And I just. don't. want it. (Ok, maybe the bedroom set, though it needs a new custom sized mattress...) I know I can sell it, but I feel like I'd be breaking the chain. I would be the bad person who let the cherished items pass out of the family. It's been literally hundreds of years with some of this stuff. But it's all too big for my house, or requires storage space I don't have, or time I don't have to maintain it (silver needs to be polished. I had to do it all through my childhood and I vowed never again.)

So yeah. I'm stressed. And the time is coming. 
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Hire someone to take it and auction it if it is actually valuable. Or have an estate sale. There are people who will do this for enough high end stuff.

I had to clean out my mothers' house of 60+ years this past year. She moved to a smaller place so took some things, but otherwise we had to get the place empty to sell. Honestly I trashed most of it. I just made a trash pile in every room and hired someone to take it all away. Had to do that a couple of times to make space for the next phase. The attic was 80% trash. Definitely had to do it when my mother wasn't there. We donated some of the usable stuff. I probably missed some valuable items amidst the trash but I think I found most of it. It was super time consuming but grateful that it is done and it has definitely motivated me to get rid of stuff in our house. I am already pretty ruthless about stuff, but could probably get rid of half the things we have in our attic and will do that over the winter.[/quote]

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