Too much stuff

For the last month I have been cleaning out the estate of a woman who was a collector of all. She didn't just have one of everything, she had to have two. I'm not kidding! Everything in the house is in pairs. She was a QVC junkie, there were boxes and boxes of unopened QVC items that he had purchased in the last few years plus all the antiques that she acquired from her mom who passed away in 1998. Now, I cleaned out mom and dad's house when they passed away and I thought there was alot of stuff but it was nothing compared to his woman. Thanks goodness mom didn't have cable or she would have been buying on QVC too! This woman's poor husband is beside himself. Not only did she leave him alone, she left him almost in bankruptcy. She had at least 30 charge cards that are all maxed out and a huge hospital bill too. She had fibromyalgia and suffered for about 12 years. The last 4 years were unbearable pain for her, I've learned alot about what fibromyalgia is and how it affects not only the person suffering but also everyone around them. For the last two years of her life she couldn't drive, she couldn't control her bladder, she couldn't write very well anymore, she couldn't do her crafts, she couldn't teach pre-school anymore, she couldn't do anything but take her pills and drink her Margaritas until the pain subsided. The only thing she could do that made her happy was to shop but since she couldn't really go anywhere, tada, QVC was there for her. I think that it was the only thing left that she could do so she did it well. From what I have been seeing for the last month, she was a very active, always happy, gave from the heart, wonderful human being. She tried every new thing that came up to try to help her with the fibromyalgia including diet, exercise, new drugs, anything that might help. She had 100 books on how to help her with this disease but nothing worked. She ended up going to bed on night with her blender full of margaritas and a bottle of pills and went to sleep. She never woke up. She is no longer in pain and that makes her husband happy but he misses her, alot. They were married for 30 years. He's a wreck, he has a broken back from an automobile accident that he had in December so he can't work or do anything. I have been there every day for the last month and he is starting to do a little better. The house is all cleaned out and cleaned up, he won't go upstairs though, even though the bedroom is up there, he sleeps in the living room. I am going to have the biggest sale this valley has ever seen so we can make some money to help pay all the bills that he has, maybe he won't have to declare bankrupcty. The bottom line is - if your house, your shed, your garage, your basement are all full of stuff that you don't need or want, GET RID OF IT. Barb, I will come and help you get rid of all your stuff this summer. You will feel so much better when it's gone!