Elderly Woman Dies & Kids DON'T Want Storage Unit? ~ Mom paid on Abandoned Storage Locker for YEARS!

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I've been in the storage industry for years and this is very common. People won't let go of stuff , never go through it , and waste their social security $$$ , thinking someone will want it later . It's helped me to be more judicious in getting rid of my own crap .

This makes me extremely sad. When my parents passed, my sister and I went through every closet and box and drawer. Laughed and cried along the way. Spilt everything up, donated some. If possible, we'd have kept it all. All those memories

This is why I am continuously getting rid of stuff.

Looks like my sheds. Full of expectations, gifts and dreams. Our 5 kids don't visit or bring grandchildren or great grandchildren around. I'm purging and getting rid of my collections myself. Yes very sad

22:24 the pink bead bracelet withe the name. They gave those to babies in the hospital in the 50-60's .

Well I'm about 5 minutes in and what i can see so far, based on the facts presented,( Kids didn't want it)....is a lonely old lady who brought Christmas gifts for everyone every year and spent all her Christmases alone...how sad!!

I am currently going thru my stuff and getting rid of things that I didn't really want to. I would pick something up and ask myself " do I really want my daughter to have to carry this stuff around from move to move with her when I pass?" When I look around and picture someone having to go through the stuff it gets me motivated to get rid of it!

GEEEZE GUYS!!! The wooden roller isn’t a massage thing, it’s a ravioli roller!

This sounds crazy but I can relate to the lady & her hoard. #1 she was filling a void in her heart. Her children wanted nothing to do with her, she felt abandoned. Bless her heart, R.I.P.🤗❣🙏😭💋

This is triggering me. My mom had boxes and boxes of junk and rooms filled with junky knick knacks. She loved every piece, going through all of it was complicating my grief process. I didn't want it, didn't know what to do with it and it felt incredibly disrespectful to load it up and donate it. Losing her was hard enough!

I took care of my elderly father until he passed at age 89 he was a WWII Navy vet. Me being the youngest my older 4 siblings wanted nothing to do with him. He had so much love and a great sense of humor.

my father divested himself of all of the "sentimental" stuff when mom went into the hospital. all the photos, all her keepsakes. It was "her junk." I got a check, but not one of the items my mom told me she'd be leaving to me when she died. Everything was sold or trashed. All of our baby pictures, etc. the ruby birthstone ring she was so proud of, and left to me, wasn't worth very much money. But considering how much they sold it for, I would have loved to actually HAVE IT. She was reduced to her belongings, which were then all sold to strangers. (BEFORE she died, mind you) I have a photo of her. That's it. Not sure about their family relationships, but I would have LOVED to have had any of the things my mother saved hoping to give them to me. (None of the items were expensive, or actually moved that bottom line for him.) Now....that said, my mom wasn't much of a hoarder. She didn't have storage units full. So, THAT may have had something to do with it, as well. I WOULD have gone through that; and yes, probably sold MOST of it. No way would I have gotten rid of a few of those pieces. So, sentimental yes, but also not much of a hoarder. My practicality lead me to claim my grandmother's old mixer. I used it thoughout my life, and then when my daughter entered cooking school, it's the one she used. She's now a professional baker. We still have the mixer, though it's now an antique.....still works like a Kitchen Aid should. YES It's over four decades old. Some stuff you just don't throw away.

These items were precious to her , and now you'll find people who can continue to enjoy them. It's kind of poetic.

People, when your relatives get elderly, please stop giving them holiday decorations, figurines, bric a brac, potpourri burners, picture frames, perfumes and colognes, and tons of other things that will only collect dust. They are pretty to open up and then, they really don't need them or have a place for them. My mom had SO much of that stuff in her house after she died, please, honor your relatives with your love and by staying in touch and giving them things they CAN use like a gift card or take them out for a meal. A relative asked what to get my mom for Christmas and I suggested a Bissell electric floor sweeper (about $35). The relative instead got her a potpourri burner she never used. I bought Mom the Bissell sweeper and she used it every day for her last few years and loved it.

Personally, I would prefer that my elderly parent spend that monthly storage fee unit money on a maid service, meal delivery, home maintenance, yard care, home health or an activity that he/she enjoyed rather than paying for a unit filled with stuff that even the parent didn't have a place for.

The red plastic octagon thingy at 13:58 is a coat check "ticket" from the legendary 21 Club in New York City. Nice little souvenir and it makes me happy to think she traveled and had some fun. Also she was not a hoarder. Her stuff is well-organized. RIP 💔

I used to work in an antique store in the 1990s to the early 2000s that housed 132 individual antique dealer's booths. The antique dealers would mainly go to estate sales, which most of the time it would be an older person who died, and left tons of things never used or things that were 60, 70 etc. years old in remarkable condition. It doesn't mean necessarily the person was a hoarder. A lot of people went through the depression, and that generation didn't throw anything away. A hoarder is a person who is mentally ill, and they pack their homes with complete garbage and junk to the point its beyond unlivable. If you watch those reality shows on real hoarders, you will understand there is a difference. The problem is the trend today, especially among millennials, is to lump people who accumulated things over many, many years in their lifetimes or just being an antique collector to be mislabeled a hoarder. For years people understood the difference, but now if you don't live your life following a Maoist like philosophy, which everyone must conform, which is ultra-minimalist MOD, lifeless, and sterile homes and interiors, then you are lambasted and ridiculed. HGTV, has become an example of that BS conformity. I'm so grateful to those generations who accumulated things over the years and didn't throw anything away becuase of them, we have tangible pieces of history left for posterity. They were unknowingly being historic preservationists.

I was given a 10 X 30 under similar circumstances, the monthly auction had just passed and the family signed the unit over to the facility. The facility gave the unit to me free! The woman was a college professor as well as a holiday fanatic, the unit was full to the ceiling of new holiday decorations. I moved it all to my store basement storage sorted it by holiday and sold it throughout the year. We probably made over $15,000 when all was said and done.

When my parents died we all got together and decided what we wanted. Most had been invested so it turned into money that we split. I pray my kids see the value of keeping our heritage and history.