NEW AND OVERWHELMED

New and overwhelmed
SueB
Posted: 15 July 2016 - 08:40 AM
 

I'm not a hoarder, but my 95 year old dad died last month and I have to clean out 100+ years of crap out of his house. The house will need to be torn down, so everything has to go. I'm so overwhelmed that I don't know where to start. My brothers are screwing me out of everything, so I'm broke and feeling defeated, as well. Not sleeping well, not eating, drinking too much... I know I need to sell some of this stuff, but it takes so much effort. I don't want to just fill up a landfill, either. I'd like to try to be be ecofriendly. I hate that I sound like I'm just whining... I guess I am. Can anyone give me some words of encouragement?

 

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Porter
Posted: 03 April 2017 - 08:10 PM
 

Not sure if this could help,

I was evicted from a home I owned after 15 years of hoarding.
My neighbor flea market extraordinaire was grabbing my stuff.
The major stuff I got help with, rented a truck because it was valuable enough to justify the truck rental. I tried to also put things of $200 value in with the furniture.

I went through and picked out everything $100and up into my trunk.
The next trip $50
The next trip $20
The next trip $10
The next trip $5

I made a deal he could have all the metal if he could help bag up hallways and access ways.

When my dad passed away in 1999.
My brothers and I were to remove the belongings from his house . We couldn't agree on values.

So I demanded we simply just take turns.

My oldest brother , go first, middle brother second, and then me.

We each showed up in trucks, we each had a helper.

As we chose , our helpers moved it out.
My older brother chose valuables he could resell,
Where I wanted , bedroom and kitchen .
So I when choose I asked if I could have the entire kitchen , but nothing in the garage. They divided the garage stuff themselves.

We started with the room nearest to the drive way, and worked our way back.

It went fast.
Again I'm not sure if this will help in you're situation. But it stopped us from bickering and and kept my thieving neighbor from helping himself.

 
Tillie
Posted: 03 April 2017 - 12:14 AM
 

I would rather call
Steri-Clean 🙂

 
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