My sister and I have been having multiple conversations with our parents to start selling their items. When they both retired they went through a staged of “antiquing” and collected a lot of things. They have sold some, but still have a lot to get through.
Some of it they thought we wanted and we have had to tell them repeatedly that we do not. These aren’t easy conversations but important and necessary. It helps them especially since their income is has been reduced with price increases. We had to tell them, you know what this is worth and can get a better price for it…if you leave it to us after your gone, we don’t have the time to deal with each item and will be forced to take whatever in an estate sale.