[userabchn]

I would ideally like to be able to fit my whole life into a suitcase and be sufficiently free of commitments that if someone asked me to move to the other side of the world next week I could. I achieve this in my own life, but I share the feeling of almost overwhelming burden you describe when I see my parents' possessions. Some day I am going to have to deal with them. It would be unbearably wasteful and disrespectful to just throw them out or give them away to people who don't value them, but disposing of them properly would be a major undertaking, and many of the items have great sentimental value to my parents so I can't imagine giving them to anyone else but at the same time I don't want them. I doubt that I could trick myself into overcoming this by "letting go" as you describe.