Category: decluttering
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Whose Ashes are These?
Perhaps your parents also have yellow sticky notes all over their house. One day I am greeted with this message on the microwave: Ashes!!
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Your Guide to Saving Your Sanity While Helping Your Parents Age Successfully
Managing life with aging parents is a gift, and a challenge. This blog is here to help us laugh, cry and get support during this crazy time of life.
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Time for Twin Beds To Go!
I am an adult over 50 and have raised 2 adult daughters. And yet when I visit my parents, I sleep in one of two twin beds in a room that was never a kid’s room.
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The Wooden Ladder
One day, you see an everyday object in use and it strikes the fear of immediate and significant injury in you. I call this “The Wooden Ladder Episode.”
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Trash Talk!
I know from talking to so many of you that aging parents often develop a unique relationship with trash. Yep, the trash. Here’s my family’s “Trash Talk”
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Glass Animals
I grew up in the ‘70s and ‘80s. In the 70’s we were part of a “glass animal craze.” Or maybe it was just us. I have no idea but we amassed quite a collection.
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Tiffany Crystal Disaster
In order to get to the Tiffany crystal champagne glasses out for Thanksgiving, I had to dig deep. I mean deep. Of course, I am doing this Christmas Eve around 4 pm as we are also trying to get to church for the 5:30 children’s service.
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Not Another Throw Rug !
In 2024, about 30% of adults over the age of 70 fell in their own home. Key culprit: THROW RUGS!
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Who Gets The China? 