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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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This was me. I went through everything carefully and pulled out the things I wanted, which was about 25-30% of what was in the house. I took the time to get everything that needed to be repaired or reupholstered fixed, so I was happy to be using it. I then let my extended family have anything they wanted, did an estate sale, and offloaded a bunch of stuff that wasn’t nice enough for an estate sale but was too nice to dump on a consignment place. Everything that was left either went on Buy Nothing, a church opportunity shop, or Goodwill. All told, it probably took me 6 weeks - but I had zero regrets or concerns about how everything was disposed of.[/quote]

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