This pained me to see recently at my grandparents house. After my grandpa died my grandma moved into a nursing home and her house had to be sold. Around 5 auct

This pained me to see recently at my grandparents house. After my grandpa died my grandma moved into a nursing home and her house had to be sold. Around 5 auctioneers came to the property and took around and 4 of them basically said "whelp, you would be paying me to take all this to the junk yard". One auctioneer agreed to take it and eventually most things sold for very low prices of like $1-$10 when they were worth much more. Over 60 years of various collections had accumulated. A lifetime of them collecting and meticulously holding onto them, gone in a flash. The family didn't have the throughput to go through each item, one by one to figure out what everything was worth. It was an emotional tax on the family just to box it all up to get it out of the house. So much wasted. So now the most important thing I tell people over 65 that they can do in the next 10 years is figure out what they want to do with all their belongings, *BEFORE* their family has to decide what to do with it. Its an emotional and physical burden to your family if you don't figure out what to do with your belongings and I think a little bit selfish. You know whats coming but if you don't plan for it, you are just pushing the work on to the next generation.