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Boomers spent their lives accumulating stuff. Now their kids are stuck with it.
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There is a whole industry to transport Silent Gen and Boomer treasures to the landfill. Most commonly, a waste management company is going to park a construction dumpster in your driveway the same week you die. And there are hands for hire if your children can't be bothered to go through your crap themselves.
There are also auction and estate companies that will try to get value out of furniture. That's dying out though because IKEA doesn't make furniture suitable for inheritance.
Estate companies will take the "good stuff" to auction, and house sale the rest for a few weekends. After that, there are businesses whose sole thing is buying up the remnants for their resale/thrift store. Think Big Lots but for dead people's stuff.
I really hope there's a store called "Dead People's Stuff."
“Big Plots”
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I drove past this place the other week. It's almost what you want. Shop called 'Vintage 2 Die 4' with the moto of "We have the best deaf people stuff"
https://maps.app.goo.gl/8q4VpvZjLYkWYnUN6
Personally I hope my stuff gets handled like this. I’d rather someone, who wants the object, gets it for cheap, rather than it be a burden to my kids.
It’s how I got it all anyways. At leas the tools.
I have hoarder grandparents... I sometimes wish for a house to go up in flames while they're not home just so nobody has to deal with going into it.