What Should You Do with Your Stuff Before You Die?

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Then one day you realize that you probably won’t ever get to see India after all, and the chance you’ll swim off the coast of Australia is shrinking year by year. There are only so many trips remaining that will fit your budget and the time span over which that budget must stretch.

On the other hand is the realisation that you've saved and invested all your life 'for that rainy day', and all of a sudden there is a tipping point. The realisation that money is no longer important because the money you have available will be more than enough to cover all of your remaining needs.

(You might calculate that you have 10 years of normal spending levels on hand or available in some way and you can only expect to live another five.)

The approach of death has a marvellous way of clearing the mind. It certainly moves those priorities around.

We've spent a lot of the past 6 months cleaning out my inlaw's home. Her mom was a bit of a hoarder, mostly food. But half the garage and one bedroom were full of stuff from her father who passed away 15 years ago and her grandparents who have been gone for 40 and 25 years. Now we have almost an entire bedroom's space worth of that stuff in our home :(

I'm personally trying to get mine down to a single carload other than furniture or boardgames. Boardgames can be a single carload on their own.

My poor nan die about 10 years ago without warning.

She lived alone in the country, she went to the loo one day, fell forward and trapped herself between the door and the toilet pan and could not move, She died there.

Her place was stuffed full of 60 years of collected unwanted stuff.

It took two weeks to clear it all out.

I'm not far away from the inevitable and I intend to do a lot of car booting so my family does not have to go through all my useless stuff.

Feng shui is the way

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