[ryandrake]

Take your partner to an estate sale, where the next-of-kin are trying to sell their departed parents' stuff. And just wander around contemplating. We're not taking any of our "stuff" with us when we go. An entire lifetime collecting all these knickknacks and tchotchkes and stuffing your house and storage units with them and at the end... It just becomes a burden to someone else.

I think this activity can be good therapy to help people to stop and think about their "stuff accumulation".

[LeafItAlone]

I don’t buy and keep things to take with me when I die. I get them to be useful to me and others. In fact, I’ve gone to many estate sales and picked up useful things at significant discount off new, sometimes even free. It would delight me if someone else benefited from my stuff after I am gone.

The biggest thing I struggle with is keeping it organized in a useful way.

[trashface]

Yep. My parents moved into a retirement community and have a huge unfinished basement, probably 1500-2000 sqft of floor space. And they have filled it with crap. Its like a warehouse down there. Some of it has value but vast majority of it is just plain junk (mostly stuff from their old house which they should have gotten rid of when they moved, some literally in the same boxes). They are in their 80s and not dealing with it. It will be my problem eventually.