Here's a sci-fi story about tech-assisted cataloging of parent's stuff

"Using this kind of technology on a living human’s home would be a gross invasion of privacy. But if you use it in the home of someone who’s died alone, it just improves a process that was bound to take place in any event. Working with Infinite Space, you can even use the inventory as a checklist, value all assets using current eBay blue-book prices, divide them algorithmically or manually, even turn it into a packing and shipping manifest you can give to movers, telling them what you want sent where. It’s like full-text search for a house."

https://www.iftf.org/fileadmin/user_upload/downloads/th/ByHi...

Doesn't seem like as big of a problem as people make it out to be. You hire a skip and move the vast majority of stuff in to it over a weekend. Maybe garage sale off the stuff that has some value.

Renting a roll off or even a normal dumpster is something everyone should do every few years, anyway.

I have to question what people are doing where they can fill a whole dumpster with junk every few years. Perhaps buying less crap would be a good start.

100% agree. It is NOT normal to need a dumpster every few years…

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31499766

Thanks for that - brilliant article, resonated a lot with me and my situation!