Quote Originally Posted by iris lilies View Post
This reminds me, now that we have our trust and will in place, I need to write a letter to trust officers to assure them they should get rid of all of our STUFF as quickly and painlessly as possible. I have said this verbally, but it needs to be in writing, too.

I want them to NOT attempt to honor me in any way thru my STUFF.
+1

My MIL has been cleaning out over the last few years. Has become downright minimalist. She started with condensing 50,000 slides onto CDs sent her children copies and pitched it all. By the time she is done the only thing left may be the barrel of ugly china that came over on the first ship and has been hidden in closets for the past 200 plus years. My parents will be a little harder, true farmer mentality of "that'll come in useful someday" but it's organized and not horded by any means. It will be easy to have a farm auction after we all get what we want including the land. Farm auctions in that part of the state are quite the event. Food trucks, reunions, friends buying in support/need/ or "that'll come in useful someday".