Originally Posted by Pam S

I recently read an article about "Swedish death cleaning" (but not the book itself, I'll have to check that out) and discussed it with my DH. We've been through cleaning out the estates of both sets of our parents and decided we didn't want our kids to go through that. So we've been methodically going through our stuff and donating or trashing what isn't useful. It's a great feeling. The one problem is our 20-something children are having a hard time with us getting rid of things that were part of their childhood - even if it's an old, ugly chair that never was comfortable. But they don't want the stuff either!