They say you can’t take it with you when you go. But for hoarders, not only can they not take it with them, but someone else is left to deal with the aftermath of their lifetime of accumulation. I’ve been watching the Curiosity Incorporated channel a lot lately on YouTube, and he’s gone and bought the contents of another hoarder’s home. Watching Alexander clean up this accumulation is both fascinating in its own right, and also helps remind me that I really need to be dealing with my own mess and finish my Kon Mari purge.
Anyone want to buy some Beckett back issues? I have a few up for grabs…
Anyway, on a recent episode, Alexander said something that I found profoundly sad. The reason he’s ended up buying this home’s contents was that the new owner, who had been willed the house on the hoarding owner’s passing, just didn’t want to deal with it anymore. The new owner was a family friend of the deceased. Why will your home to a family friend? Because the deceased was the end of the line. Only children of only children, they never had any kids of their own. Whatever legacy they had, effectively ended on the surviving spouse’s death.
Legacy is on my mind somewhat regularly. That’s a big part of my push to get out of debt. Not just for our personal freedom right now, but in the long-term, I want to leave something that my children and grandchildren can benefit from. It likely won’t be a huge fortune or string of successful business ventures, but it ought to be enough to help out a little bit. With five kids, even if one or two of them ultimately choose to not have kids of their own, there should definitely be a continuation of the family branch.
On that note, I’d probably best get back to purging junk out of my office. That’s odd, I wonder when I bought into the Star Wars Miniatures game?