It’s something you probably don’t like to think about, or at least discuss, because the last thing you want to do is lose your parents: “What will we do with all of our parents’ stuff when they pass away?”
We sure collect a lot of stuff over the course of our lifetimes, entire households’ worth of stuff and sometimes even more.
As the late comedian George Carlin said, “That’s all your house is, your house is just a place for your stuff. … That’s all your house is, it’s a pile of stuff with a cover on it.
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