Flip This House Grandma House

emilybee
Thu, 19 Oct 2017 00:50:59 +0000

My mom’s house is clutter free except for her clothes closets and medicine cabinets (which are a whole wall to the ceiling cabinets.) On one visit a few years ago I made her go through everything. We took dozens of huge garbage bags filled with clothes, shoes and bags to the homeless shelter, who take the really good stuff and sell it at their store.

And I found stuff like shoe boxes filled with golf balls and at least 5 pair of golf shoes and she doesn’t even golf anymore. In her medicine cabinets I found prescriptions from 15 years ago, makeup from who knows when and a zillion hair products, lotions, etc. Everything got tossed. Then I bought her a shredder and spent days shredding bank statements going back to the 80’s with the checks included. Ditto for her brokerage accounts.

Fortunately my mom (who is 88) is in great shape physically and mentally which makes all this stuff much easier to get done.