We are moving- but this isn't really about that. Cause that is cool. The problem is that we are moving into my MILs old house. She moved out spur of the moment a year and a hlaf ago and took hardly anything. So there is an entire house full of stuff. Stuff we can't keep because we have our own stuff. Boxes and boxes and shelves and shelves of stuff. hundreds of drinking glasses, 6 china cake platters, 4 (!) kitchen tables, totes and totes of wrapping paper. several surfaces covered in breakable glass knicky-knacks. 4 sets of dishes, 4 sets of complete tupperware (can you believe that! That stuff is so expensive- and there are 4 complete all tupperware sells sets!). The garage is filled with more stuff. funiture, books, memorobilia from 40 years. Last night my sil and opened a couple of boxes in the garage and I found DH's toy tractor (sweet- he was soooo happy!) in a box filled with old candles and used ziplock baggies. There were also boxes filled with sugar sprinkles that had lost thier color and spices in antique (and rusted) tins.
It is bad. We have to be out of our house in less than 2 weeks and I don't know what I am supposed to do with this stuff. She knows we are moving and has packed up very very little to take to her home, and packed up a few boxes and moved them into the garage. She won't throw things away. Like these ripped and stained curtains we took down. I said throw them- you have all new curtains in your new house. She said- no you keep them for you DD-I said NO, she said her dd (my sil) would want them, I hollered down to ask, SIL said no. I said burn pile, she packed them in her car. It is aweful. So I have to clean out this house- but what am I supposed to do with all this stuff? deliver it to her? sort it out myself? call goodwill? She doesn't want to deal with it.
And get this- I feel guilty going through her personal things. Like I am snooping or something. ugh. advice?
It is bad. We have to be out of our house in less than 2 weeks and I don't know what I am supposed to do with this stuff. She knows we are moving and has packed up very very little to take to her home, and packed up a few boxes and moved them into the garage. She won't throw things away. Like these ripped and stained curtains we took down. I said throw them- you have all new curtains in your new house. She said- no you keep them for you DD-I said NO, she said her dd (my sil) would want them, I hollered down to ask, SIL said no. I said burn pile, she packed them in her car. It is aweful. So I have to clean out this house- but what am I supposed to do with all this stuff? deliver it to her? sort it out myself? call goodwill? She doesn't want to deal with it.
And get this- I feel guilty going through her personal things. Like I am snooping or something. ugh. advice?
