granparents and parents 'stuff' siting in boxes

I sometimes think that it's things like bank statements etc that would be of most interest to future historians when most source material will have disappeared because everything is now on computers...[that's my excuse for not throwing stuff away, anyway!]...

We sold some bits and bobs of my mums, which paid for us to have a meal after scattering her ashes, and gave the rest away to people who would really benefit from it.
The man who took her wheelchair wanted it for his wife, as she was unable to go out, and the wait for an assessment was taking months.

I have today gone through the final stuff from my mum's room in the nursing home. It's hard isn't it? I was happily jettisoned things when DH came in and said, 'oh don't get rid of that!' some help as it wasn't even his mother.

Oh this rings lots of bells. How I agree that we should not leave lots of stuff for our own children to sort out. DH even has bank statements and chequebooks that belonged to his grandparents as well as his parents' stuff. It's mostly paperwork and I keep trying to get him to go through it. I doubt there's anything valuable but bank papers cannot be readily dumped in the bin, can they? I suppose they need shredding. I did rescue a small embroidery his mother worked and it looks much better in the new frame I bought for it. It's hanging on our wall now. DH opines that the children will be inheriting so when the time comes they can blooming well sort through the tat!

I would get rid of it all. I can't see what good stuff does sitting in boxes, apart from really sentimental things.

Our rule was: if our children will look at this when we are gone and think "what the heck are we going to do with this?" then out it goes!

We got a clearance firm to deal with FIL's flat. I lost the will to live when I got as far as his patented electric ear wax remover, complete with ear wax - yuk!

To be honest when we had to move mil from her large house into a warden aided flat and then just 2weeks later she was placed in a nursing home due to a rapid decline in her health we just asked the chap in the flat next door to her to deal with it . He was more than happy as it filled his garage and he knew he was going to make a mint from it . It had taken us weeks and weeks of sorting through her own stuff and her mother's before that so please don't leave it for your own family to sort out later on they will have enough to do .