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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My parents and older relatives have some sick joke that if we’re inheriting all their money we have to deal with cleaning and selling.

It is what it is. I think by 85, people should have their homes parsed down and cleared out. Like spare room closets empty, attic empty, basement empty[/quote]

Really they should just move into their graves - sleep in a coffin, only wear the thing they want to be buried in.
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You're right. Wishing my parents didn't have a garage full of broken car parts is the same as wishing they were dead. You're very smart and not at all a tedious POS.[/quote]

So help them get rid of that stuff now, or figure out who you're going to have to call when the time comes. What do you want them to do? You think your parents are suddenly going to become completely different people, becuase you're planning for their death?

The [b]entitlement [/b]on this thread is astonishing.[/quote]

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It means exactly what I think it means - feeling like your parents should be more concerned about your future inconvenience than about what they actually want for themselves.

This thread started about what people are doing themselves to help reduce the load for their kids and other loved ones in the future. But it quickly turned into people just sh**ting all over old people, once again, for daring to be alive.

I'm not the old person. I will be dealing with this with my own parents, who have a house crammed with stuff, one day - hopefully not soon. I don't think they have to choose to live differently than they want to now, so one day I will have less stuff to deal with.

I don't think that will be easy. It will be one of a hundred awful things to deal with one day. I don't think they owe me getting rid of their stuff today.[/quote]

"What they want forever themselves" is doing a ton of work in your post.  And, no, I don't think it's want they "want" for themselves rather than a whole bunhc of other issues like denial, inertia, etc.[/quote]

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