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[quote=Anonymous]One big issue becomes people don't realize when they are slowly fading and a house can gradually fall into disrepair. This isn't about greedy adult children wanting an inheritance. It's about having to take leave from work you may not have and leave kids who could have special needs/challenging teenage issues or whatever/leave a spouse who may have his or her own health issues by then and spend a month sorting junk, hiring contractors, finding a realtor and dealing with the elder's emergency. Nobody is shoving you out of your house this second, but everyone should be decluttering, throwing out, shredding and donating in retirement when able bodied.

Some of us have elders who led much easier lives than we lead and will likely live to an older age than we will. More and more people find they are facing their own serious health issues right when the sh*t hits the fan for their 90 year old mom who spend decades leading the good life and just could not bring herself to shred her taxes, etc from the 1960s onward and she has been hoarding "antiques" in the basement in boxes that are worthless and just collect dust and she has clothing she could never donate even though it has not fit since she was 22.[/quote]

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