One of the most common dilemmas that the widowed face from both practical and emotional standpoints is deciding when to go through a late spouse’s belongings. How long should you wait? Do you accept offers of help? How do you know when the time is right? Additionally — and there is no getting around it — while continuing forward on your Healing Journey, you will occasionally experience moments of grief. Activities such as going through your beloved’s clothing, selling vehicles, putting away Continue reading
3 Tips for Going Through Your Departed Loved One’s Belongings
Once the dust starts to settle and you get back to your daily routine following the death of your loved one, you might start thinking about what to do with your loved one’s belongings. You’ll start thinking about this when you open your closet and see your late husbands suites hanging in there, or walk past your child’s room and see their bed the way they left it. Eventually you might decide that it’s time to do something with your loved one’s possessions. What you choose to do with them is Continue reading
How to Approach the Job of Emptying a Home…
One of the most challenging and unpleasant tasks left after a loved one’s funeral is to sort through their personal belongings. Here are some tips to help you empty your loved one’s home.We often hear older adults say “my children can have all this when I’m gone,” without realizing that changing styles and tastes greatly diminish the desirability of their household belongings. This duty is as overwhelming for their heirs as the prospect of residential downsizing was for the older adult in their Continue reading
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