I finally made it back to work but have been snowed under all day, trying to catch up. Mother’s service was real nice but I’m glad it’s over. All that standing around and talking with strangers is very draining. Now I’ve just got to handle the aftermath of trying to get everything all figured out. She did have all her business affairs in order though so that part should be relatively painless.
The worst part will be going through everything in the house and figuring out what to do with it. We’re not planning on selling the house any time soon because I’ve got no place to put anything until I get a house built, so that’ll give us time to go through it room by room kinda like Becky was talking about, and there’s about 45 years worth of stuff there to go through. {Grooooooan!!}
It’s OK to go slow on that, there are some things you know you will want to keep, some things that you know you won’t, and a lot of stuff you aren’t sure which pile to put it in.
How many other family “heirs” are involved?
What I hope most of all is that you and your family can go through all this ‘business’ without ill feelings over things. I’ve been pretty lucky in that regard, even with a couple of difficult aunts in the picture.
I understand about the service, I’m glad it was nice, and even the drain of the strangers and acquaintances is therapeutic, at least it was for me.
Well, I sure feel for you having to clean out the house. It’s not a fun thing. I’m going to start today on a back room, and try to be ruthless about just trashing everything possible. Once I get all that done, then we will start hauling the sellable stuff to the building for a garage sale. The major furniture will have to stay put till I sell the place...from all the HGTV shows I’ve watched it’s better to have the place “staged” which means the garage sale can’t happen till the place is sold, most of it I won’t use in the new place.
Glad your back with us.
Becky