Another 2.5 hours 😪

How was your night?

Spent another evening meticulously going through my dead father's paperwork. This old man saved the dumbest shit. SO many folders with just one random bill or statement from the 2000-2010s, manuals for products that been in the dump for years, or a one off receipt for some house decoration you couldn't return and wasn't worth anything of value.

Whhhyyyy Dad, just why!?

And where TF are my two siblings in this process. Especially the one with no job at the moment.

I'm tired.

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come2gether · 46-50, M

My dad was a hoarder as well. Filled one of those large dumpsters, twice, when it was time to clean out his house.

Starcrossed · 41-45, F

@come2gether oh man, I'm sorry.

I certainly know I'm no angel when it comes to not throwing things that should just be tossed. I've been battling with myself in trusting that the garbage bags my siblings did fill didn't contain things that should have been saved. I've lightly gone through two so far and pulled a couple things back out saving them from disappearing forever. But my dad's eccentric hoarding is a whole deeper level than my own. Thankfully it was more paperwork than actual things. Most of his household items I can donate to a Veterans and another low income home furnishing charity so I'm hoping we'll only need one dumpster.

Though the 'things' hoard is more up at the cabin which we haven't even started to go through.