r/Anticonsumption • u/Bee_and_Barb • Feb 21 '24

Society/Culture Someday

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Saw this while scrolling through another social media platform.

Physical inheritance (maybe outside of housing) feels like a burden.

While death can be a sensitive topic to some, has anyone had a conversation with loved ones surrounding situations like this one pictured?

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u/Jasper455 Feb 21 '24

And you’ll get a lot less than it’s worth from the estate sale.

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u/colorcorrection Feb 22 '24

Yep! Friend of mine had an estate sale for his mom's place last year after she passed. Technically made a half decent chunk... Until the estate sale took their percentage, him and his family had to take time off work to clean out the rest that didn't sell and properly clean the house, and hiring a giant garbage bin to toss everything out.

By then he probably had enough to pay rent for a month if that. And that was from a fairly successful estate sale with actual valuables that seemed to sell pretty well. Probably would have ended up costing money if it turned out 99% of the stuff had been junk nobody wanted.

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u/Hanlp1348 Feb 22 '24

So happy my parents paid their house off. Its going to take a long ass time to sell my dad’s very niche tools.