Dear Eric: My parents are retired and enjoying the empty nest stage of life. They have a rather large home and my mother’s mobility has been severely hampered in the last few years.
They refuse to get rid of the things that no longer serve them. My mother over buys for everything and at times I think she forgets what they already have and just buys more, never cleaning out what she already has.
My siblings and I are growing extremely frustrated as there are rooms in the house that are no longer able to be moved through or are overrun with stuff from decades ago…