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Grancey, my mother and sister and I are going through a similar trial right now, but luckily we don't have a very strict deadline on finishing the job. We are having an estate sale in late May, so we have about 2 months to decide what furniture/antiques we're selling and get them ready to go. We WERE going to put the house in the auction, but it's just too soon for all three of us working and putting off the job of going through everything.
My dad didn't really keep useless stuff, except for tools. Fortunately, the garage was his own little world, and we don't really know what was sentimental and what wasn't, so most of the tools are going to go.
We've gone through a ton of stuff in the lower level of the house, including ending a lot of items to Goodwill and giving away some things that friends/neighbors expressed interest in. Bedrooms aren't really full of stuff.. however, the attic hasn't even been touched yet. It's full of boxes of stuff that my parents didn't want to get rid of before we moved to this house in 1996, so that has to be faced as well.
After this experience, I'm going to be packing a lot lighter. It's hard for me to get rid of books or DVDs, but I've tossed all kinds of things that 5 years ago I thought I'd hold onto forever. Turns out that when you move and a box remains closed for over 6 months because there's nothing in there that you actually use or want.. you can just get rid of the whole box and you're most likely not going to care too much.
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— Henri-Frédéric Amiel
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