@greene I totally agree with your method of cleaning out homes. If you look at the total job, it will be too daunting. @klc Those are some good ideas for the memory garden. @Samigal As one who has been there, too, greene's method works.
Any day you wake up on the sunny side of the grass is a good day.
"The moving hand writes and having writ moves on. Neither all thy piety nor all thy wit can lure it back to cancel half a line nor all thy tears wash out a word of it." The Rubiyat by Omar Khayyam