When my parents died it took me a year to go through their house (it didn't help that it was 300 miles away).

Besides trying to separate the good, trash, and sentimental valued items my mom liked to hide $100 bills in the stacks of junk. So I went through everything!

It was a pain but going through the stuff but it was kind of nostalgic.

In the end an estate auction cleared out the stuff I didn't want.

After another year of restoring the house I finally sold it right when the housing prices tanked. Looking back on it now I should have auctioned everything off in the first week. That probably would have saved me money and time.