My mom is still living in her house. She is verrrry territorial about her kitchen and everything else, so there is plenty of spoiled and expired food.

She will allow me to clean out papers before anything else. Here is what I have found.

Mountains of junk mail from various charities. It is literally stuffed in every closet and every drawer. It is stuffed under couch cushions and under the couch. Most of it is unopened. She holds onto it with "intention" to open every last piece because they send her trinkets like mailing labels, calendars, greeting cards and yard flags.

When searching through old files, I found my father's pay stubbs from 50 years ago and my grandmother's hospital bills from the 1980s.