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Message:: [QUOTE="bercrystal, post: 405367, member: 88"]When I was helping a friend get her parents house cleaned out I quickly realized she was just not ready to part with some things, but was having a hard time accepting the fact herself. If she even hesitated for a moment it went into her keep pile. She is divorced so it is just her & the dog in a 3 bedroom 2,000 sq. ft. house with a 2 car garage. I kept telling her she could take home as much as she wanted & no one would say anything. I do hope someone will be around to help her clear out that house & garage when she decides to downsize because she took me at my word. Most of it is in the garage & she can still only get her 1 little car in there. I keep gently working at it with her & got her to take a load to the auction house a few weeks ago. I also told her that the money she got from the things she did decide to sell could be used to buy herself something she needed or wanted & in all essence it was from her parents. It is hard not to feel guilty, but you can't love everything someone else had no matter who they were. Another friend sold stuff from various relatives & bought herself a nice curio cabinet that she could display the things she did keep, which was much more productive than having stacks of boxes in her garage.[/QUOTE]