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It is a common thing. This business of people dying and stuff coming to your place is not uncommon. Imagine what will happen when you die?
I worked with a woman whose basement and garage were full of other people's stuff.
Every time my daughter moves, her stuff comes to my garage.
When my great aunt died, the one thing that people said was that she was a hoarder. I don't know. I never met her and was in college when she died, so I didn't go to her funeral and was never at her home. What I do know is that g grandfather lived with her until he passed away. He had outlived two wives. She had outlived her husband and his parents. What I think happened is exactly what you are saying. People died, and their stuff went to her home. Factor in the fact that they had lived through the Great Depression. Many of those people never threw anything away. Ever. And how do you process other people's stuff? Some people just toss it, never looking at what is in the boxes. And she was a teacher, so from my own experience, I know that there is little to no time to go through stuff.
When I retired, I brought home several car loads of stuff. I did not want to leave anything with my name on it behind and I labeled everything so that I would know what was mine and what wasn't. I have removed my name from many of those things and gotten rid of lots of teaching stuff, but I have plenty left.
The thing for me especially now, is to do something every day whether it is a box, a drawer, a cabinet. I have a ways to go, but I can see progress. I have found things that were kind of lost to me but there are some things that I am still searching for.
Also, have had a package to mail to a friend for a while - did that too. I know both seem almost insignificant, but those little things nagging add up. Glad to have both out of the office.
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