Yeah, my parents like to go check out the local retirement homes/nursing homes because they get a free meal while the place is showing off. Oy.

But they do probably need to move at some point...but then they'd have to get rid of their STUFF...at least the current place is all one story.

Yeah, my parents like to go check out the local retirement homes/nursing homes because they get a free meal while the place is showing off. Oy.

Hahaha! I cannot wait to be old enough to do that -- I am all about the free meal and looking at places to live! In a casual manner.

My mom and dad are talking about moving the W/D upstairs because the basement stairs are steep as hell, but I don't see either of them moving, unless something catastrophic happened, or unless my dad goes first.

My mom wouldn't do well alone in the house; she'd have to have one of us stay there/with us, and there'd be blood within a month. I love my mom, so does my sister, but there's NO WAY we'd be able to live with her, unless needs truly, desperately dictated.

One reason I'm feeling the need to seriously declutter is seeing what it took to clear out my cousin's house.

I'm not making much progress, mind you. I just feel guiltier.

I could conceivably live with my mother. However, my sister lives with my mother, and my sister and I would end up like the Gingham Dog and the Calico Cat.

I hope DH's aunt lives forever, because I think the only option for decluttering her place would be to just set fire to it all and start from scratch. Which would be a shame because (a) she actually has some very nice things in there, many of them books, (b) it's a brownstone and a fire would cause significant collateral damage to the houses in either side, and (c) it's a rental, and not actually her heirs' to set fire to.

OMG, I heard some woman in an airport the other day talking about how they were going to burn her late uncle's house -- they had already sold the farm, but the buyers didn't want the house. I can't even imagine living in a place where that's the best way to get rid of a structure!

I think the best inheritance my Mom could have given us was cleaning out her house of 53 years and downsizing to a one bedroom apartment. It was hard for her for sure, but we don't have to deal with the junk, and we know what she has now is the stuff shed want us to have.

I wish my parents would sell their place and move into an adult community situation. I mention it to them ALL THE TIME. They promised they would, but keep putting it off and not taking any steps towards making it a reality.

I am all about the free meal and looking at places to live! In a casual manner.

Now that my MIL is in assisted living we have a standing invite to have dinner with her. Although it'll be at 4:30 in the afternoon. Her assisted living facility does a "formal" dinner once a month, usually with lobster, filet mignon or prime rib, and always champagne. I keep thinking it would be rude of us to schedule dinner for those nights but still... prime rib and booze! Oh and her place has a tiki bar outside near the pool and during the summer they have margarita nights. I keep trying to talk the DH into going up for those.

I had been thinking of assisted living as being like college, but that is so much better!