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    Quote Originally Posted by Klunick View Post
    Chewy sells something that looks like packing tape. Apply it to the furniture and you can barely see it.
    Thanks. It's too late for our current chairs, but maybe the next pieces of furniture would stand a chance.

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    Quote Originally Posted by rosarugosa View Post
    Thanks. It's too late for our current chairs, but maybe the next pieces of furniture would stand a chance.
    Same but at least with this stuff on it, they won't get worse.

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    Three sheds and they are all pretty full. My parents house is FULL, garage is FULL and now they are past the age of doing much
    about it. Dad will be 90 this year and Mom will be 89. I have only one sibling and they are not in good health to help. My mom has
    lots of collections. Everything is very neat and tasteful, but nothing I care to have in our little house. It is all a bit overwhelming to
    think about it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Greg44 View Post
    Three sheds and they are all pretty full. My parents house is FULL, garage is FULL and now they are past the age of doing much
    about it. Dad will be 90 this year and Mom will be 89. I have only one sibling and they are not in good health to help. My mom has
    lots of collections. Everything is very neat and tasteful, but nothing I care to have in our little house. It is all a bit overwhelming to
    think about it.
    Ugh. That would have me hiring a dumpster and people to clean it out when they were gone.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tradd View Post
    Ugh. That would have me hiring a dumpster and people to clean it out when they were gone.
    But it is so much more satisfying (and environmentally responsible) to be able to put things that are perfectly good into the hands of people who could use them. It is also a lot more work though, so that's why sister and I are trying to be proactive in rehoming some of Mom's stuff that she will never use again.

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    Quote Originally Posted by rosarugosa View Post
    But it is so much more satisfying (and environmentally responsible) to be able to put things that are perfectly good into the hands of people who could use them. It is also a lot more work though, so that's why sister and I are trying to be proactive in rehoming some of Mom's stuff that she will never use again.
    That's so great, Rosa. I admit that I get a lot of pleasure out of doing that, moving things along so that they belong to the next generations if heirlooms, or getting things to people who need them now.

    I wish I were one of those people who were ready to stop collecting, but that doesn't seem to be me yet. For now, I am working on getting rid of things I don't use and getting them to someone who will. I want to try to get rid of two things for every new thing I bring in.

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    We picked up a carload of iris show supplies from a member who has dropped out. Now I am shopping them around to iris people and fortunately have a lead on the bulk of them. I would not have taken them except it is the dead of winter and I have time to deal with them.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Greg44 View Post
    Three sheds and they are all pretty full. My parents house is FULL, garage is FULL and now they are past the age of doing much
    about it. Dad will be 90 this year and Mom will be 89. I have only one sibling and they are not in good health to help. My mom has
    lots of collections. Everything is very neat and tasteful, but nothing I care to have in our little house. It is all a bit overwhelming to
    think about it.
    That does seem like such a daunting task, Greg! I'm sorry you seem to be the one left to deal with it all. I do agree with the posts about re-homing as much as possible. If you wanted to make money off of any of it, of course a yard sale would work. Otherwise, if just trying to find a home for all/some of it, what about advertising a "free for the taking - open shed" event? As we all know, people love free stuff and I'm sure you would be able to free yourself of some of the stuff.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Greg44 View Post
    Three sheds and they are all pretty full. My parents house is FULL, garage is FULL and now they are past the age of doing much
    about it. Dad will be 90 this year and Mom will be 89. I have only one sibling and they are not in good health to help. My mom has
    lots of collections. Everything is very neat and tasteful, but nothing I care to have in our little house. It is all a bit overwhelming to
    think about it.
    When ever there could be a good time to deal with all this, there are auction houses that will come out to evaluate things of re-sale value to be auctioned in online auctions. And there are charities that sometimes will [ick up things. It does take the work out of sorting, but you may not have to everything. At least that's how I dealt with a similar situation where I lived out of town without any reasonable abilities to deal with such things. Just a thought.
    "what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?" Mary Oliver

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    Quote Originally Posted by Greg44 View Post
    Three sheds and they are all pretty full. My parents house is FULL, garage is FULL and now they are past the age of doing much
    about it. Dad will be 90 this year and Mom will be 89. I have only one sibling and they are not in good health to help. My mom has
    lots of collections. Everything is very neat and tasteful, but nothing I care to have in our little house. It is all a bit overwhelming to
    think about it.
    Wait for mom and dad to die to avoid their pleas of “oh, don’t YOU want that? Save for our grandhildren! These things are VALUABLE!”

    when they are gone, get an auctioneer in to take the stuff he will sell, donate the rest. You really do not have to touch and decide on each piece. Really. Unless they have world class onjects which I doubt, the stuff is worth what you can bet at auction and that is not much.

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    roger suggested the same. Do not let it stress you.

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