The executors of Mom's estate had a realtor go through Mom's house.
He wants three of the rooms painted with white paint and the trash cleared out. He wants to put it on the market the week after Labor Day.
That was a catalyst for going from "Let's look at each baseball card and newspaper clipping as we sort through the piles of boxes" to "OK, who can clear all of the building materials out of the basement and garage?" From micro-to-macro focus in less than a day.
Another thing that changed is that one of my siblings insisted that they be allowed to go through every pile FIRST before anybody else dealt with it. That was a huge bottleneck because we have five people who are authorized to sort through the estate and this one person puttered away while the other four sat on our hands. Furthermore, efforts to clear various rooms was undone as their sorting method involved flooding the newly-cleared space with their multiple piles.
I think that issue is now behind us.
As one of the more fit of my siblings I jumped on the hand-grenade and manhandled file-cabinets and electronics up and down stairs and staged them in the garage pending the trash dumpster. I also volunteered to "absorb" the building materials and fencing so I spent part of the day fishing lumber out of the garage rafters and wrestling loose rolls of chain-link fencing.
The building materials are much slower to unload at my end than they are to load at Mom's end.
Ibuprofen, the breakfast of champions.
Between moving Southern Belle and family up here, moving the friend's belongings to the storage unit and now Mom's house I have no need to visit the gym. Oh, and I sleep like a rock.
Blogging will be light for the duration.
Lol, bless you brother.
ReplyDeletebe careful with the ibuprofen, its really hard on kidneys
ReplyDeleteYeah and the blood pressure. I was taking it per the doctor and my blood pressure went to 200. The doctor never said anything about that. You have to be your own doctor it seems,
DeleteERJ, we are going through the same thing, although I think likely I am the hold up for clearing things out. Hopefully we will be done by the end of next month. Prayers up and pace yourself.
ReplyDeleteIbuprofen, WITH a meal. Or Maalox.
ReplyDeleteTread carefully, young Jedi!
Calcium carbonate and much liquids for me.
DeleteLemonade or limeade to counterbalance the calcium carbonate. Otherwise, kidney stones.
DeleteIt's a sad and hard thing you are doing. Everything you pick up has memories, good or bad, attached to it. You have my sympathy.--ken
ReplyDeleteNo rest for the wicked. Get some needed recuperation time done, we'll still be here when you can. In-Laws and family can be rather difficult to deal with, but when a death in family occurs, tread lightly. Some people are particularly sensitive at that time. Consider words and actions before.
ReplyDeleteAbout dividing property, we used the old 'One determines the contents of packets, but the Other determines which packet they receive'. Tends to equalize the packets and taking advice from others is welcome so everybody gets a say.
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ReplyDeleteThe unloading ought to be the easiest part of the process. A sheet of plywood that spans the tailgate and careful packing allows one to back up quickly, mash the brakes, and slide all your building materials off the truck neatly in one pile.
ReplyDeleteWith best regards,
MIlton
"one of my siblings insisted that they be allowed to go through every pile FIRST before anybody else dealt with it."
ReplyDeleteOH HELL NO !!!
We will be process this as fast and proficiently as possible.
When my Dad passed a little over a year ago, Mom wanted nothing to do with dealing with his stuff. Fortunately, they had moved out of their home about 22 years earlier and into a retirement place. So much winnowing had already occurred.
ReplyDeleteIt was hard to get all three kids together to sort through stuff.
Dad had handled all the finances and taxes, so getting that paperwork in order was task number one. He died the day before the 2022 tax returns were due.