I understand the “hassle” but disrespecting your parents and tossing their belongings in the trash while they are not home, isn’t exactly the answer...but hey that’s just me
I wasn't advocating throwing everything out at once. What I meant was that I wish we would have gone through their stuff early on to identify junk (like 50 years of canceled checks all piled up in boxes that will never be opened again or supermarket coupons from the 1970s) and gotten rid of the obvious garbage, it would have made the eventual clean-out a lot easier. You're right, it's not cool to throw away things that others care about, and the sorting process is the first step to take to ensure that the truly important things are kept.
