Reply #52: Don Aslett's books are good. [View All]

I recommend them highly.

He's written a bunch of them and has a website.

Clutter's Last Stand, Not for Packrats Only, Clutter Free Finally and Forever (I'm quoted anonymously in that one), How to Lose 200 Lbs. in One Weekend, etc.

I've had to clean out my mom's house and it was similar to your situation. Except, as the only surviving child, I had to do it myself, with my best friend's help. There was no other immediate family. I've taken stuff to charities, sent stuff to auction, sent stuff to eBay (Three Sisters Web Sales is selling my depression glass) and given stuff away. It's taken five years. And the house is livable but we're still not through. We moved 22 bookcases, and the books thereon, up there, with help, renting a truck. I'm moving into that house, and I've got stuff to sell in the house I'm moving out of too.

I know we threw away over 200 large trash bags full of pure paper and other junk.