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If You're Over 65, Your House Is Telling On You. Lose These 5 Things.

Marilyn Vance

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My book is here 📚 https://marilynliving.com

I spent 30 years handling admissions and move-ins in senior living, and I learned that a home can reveal when a family is beginning to take over. In this video, I share the five things I believe every person over 65 should let go of before someone else makes those decisions for them-and the one question that can make each choice easier.

I also explain why some of the hardest items cost nothing to remove, why waiting can leave decisions in the hands of someone who is grieving and rushed, and why the final thing on my list is the most difficult of all.

#AgingInPlace #Downsizing #SeniorLiving #RetirementPlanning #Decluttering

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@Marilyn_Vance Creator 9 days ago Pinned

My book is here 📚 https://marilynliving.com

@Peggyznd 2 weeks ago

I love to use--every day--my 'wedding china and crystal'. I loved giving away a set of small liquor glasses to a very silly friend of my daughter. I even wash my china and crystal in the dishwasher when we have gathering. Guest gasp, and I tell them that my china and crystal told me that they would prefer to die in the dishwasher or outside on the patio than to gather dust in the china cabinet. (Lots of other things have not spoken to me so clearly, I must admit.) Other treasures have gone to people who never had the joy of crystal or fine china. Still other things went via hospice helper to other families at the 'last holiday' with a loved one. Still learning and trying to appreciate with out worrying that my daughters will find these things a burden that I promised NOT to create for them...

@gyoshinvirginialawson5964 2 weeks ago

I realized when I started,giving away the heaviervtools,a,couple of years,ago that my sadness was,not about the heavy sander or thesaw,it was the,recognition that at 80 I no longer was going to do projects that needed those,tools,that I was,saying good bye to the version of the woman who rehab ed her homes or at lrast,put up shelves and fences. I am no longer strong enough nor interested enough. I'm 85 in Maryland,just outside DC

@sarahdaneke3674 2 weeks ago

I moved from a 2500 sq foot house in Oklahoma, into an adult living facility, in Roanoke VA. It was a 2 bedroom apartment with 913 sq feet. I used your method to decide what to keep and what to donate. I live alone, but I do have 4 sets of sheets and 6 bath towels. I'll keep them.

@jimbo2834 2 weeks ago

Great video!

@yvettefluehr493 2 weeks ago

Oakley, CA

@teresaday-fickel5876 2 weeks ago

I just moved. The tools are soooo hard to get rid of.

@toadmountain740 4 days ago

Hey I live down the road from you near Winston Salem! Let's do lunch. Honestly I cant tell if I like you or not right now. Perhaps its the truth in what you are saying and the truth hurts right now. In any case I am rehoming alot of my items on Vinted and it feels great! Would love to teach others so everything doesn't seem so daunting! Bravo to you for making content and getting paid for it.