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There Will Always be Something "Out of Place"

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 There Will Always be Something "Out of Place"    This is my living room after my mother died.  No before you go all judgy on me, my mother was SUPER organized.  Things were labeled and filed and in binders.  Her passwords were in a file, her financials were in a book, her trust was done, and her will in place.  Even her funeral spot was paid for as well as the funeral itself.   That said. . . well, you can see the mess.   To be fair, WE made the mess.  In going through boxes and boxes and files up on files, we had to determine what needed to be kept and what could be tossed.  We got it down to about 30 storage boxes, 25 of which are still in storage five years later.  Maybe it is a mess, or maybe it is joyful, s a life is remembered and revisited.  We are like that, no matter if you are a minimalist and have one decorative bowl on your spotless grey table, or a hoarder-t0-be, who can't even part with a tissue bo...