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December 20, 2025

disposing my parent's stuff

  • December 20, 2025
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How do you deal with the grief and the process of disposing of my parent's furniture and other possessions from their apartment?

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    SummerOnTheWay1
    Community Champion ⭐⭐⭐
    December 20, 2025

    Dear Jesse @JesseA721736 , I am so sorry for your loss!!!

     

    Some of us found a Grief Support Group helps or Individual Counseling.

     

    Maybe Goodwill or Habitat for Humanity would pick up the items.

     

    I am ALWAYS here for you dear friend.

     

    Luv,

    Nicole  🤗🤗🤗  [Grief Forum]

     

    ➡️[*** JESSE 


    @JesseA721736 wrote:

    How do you deal with the grief and the process of disposing of my parent's furniture and other possessions from their apartment?


    Contributor ⭐
    December 21, 2025

    I've been working with https://childbereavement.org/ They have grief support groups for adults and children.

    SereneSeagull
    Community Champion ⭐⭐⭐
    December 21, 2025

    That’s good to hear. 👍🙂

    Conversationalist ⭐⭐
    December 20, 2025

    Doing that is such a grief trigger (my mom died in May). What we finally did was temporarily rent a storage unit and we are going through things slowly. We did the furniture first as then we'd need a smaller storage unit. The other problem is people from out of town coming to get things. We took photos and loaded them to google photos for people to pick what they wanted (and worked out compromises  when more htan one person wanted something). Take care and good luck dealing with this. It's hard. 

    SereneSeagull
    Community Champion ⭐⭐⭐
    December 21, 2025

    Hi @JesseA721736 


    Im sorry for your loss.  That’s hard.
    The whole grief, responsibility thing can be completely overwhelming. Not only is there the sadness, but also too, making decisions, dealing with banks, paperwork, and all that.  So hard, and so emotional.  And possibly you may be dealing with an apartment with time constraints.  

     

        The suggestion that CBtoo made is a very good one if you could get a storage unit and then go at a slower pace when you can get to that.  It’s so hard to be doing everything else and mourn at the same time.  If you have other family or friends who can lend a hand too, that you could ask.  That can be helpful too.  Sometimes others want to help but don’t know exactly how or what you need.  

    One day and step at a time is all you can do.  It is hard and can be all encompassing at times.  Glad you are here asking.