The dream isn't exactly the same every time.
Sometimes I'm checking out of a room at a military housing and there is a known deadline for exiting the building.
Sometimes it is a school that teaches technical skills and when it is done you are expected to leave in a timely manor.
As far as what kind of junk ... about ten years ago, my in-laws died and my wife and I had to remove the contents of their home before the closing.
I was working overseas at the time and I was only home for a few weeks.
My wife and I had to go through a lifetime of stuff that her parents had accumulated and quickly decide what is valuable and what goes in the dumpster.
As the end of day was getting closer, more of my in-laws' stuff ended up in the dumpster than we wanted.
After we were done, we both realized that if we had more time or were a bit better organized, we could have kept some of that stuff and sold it off or donated it.
It was sad to see so much of my wife's parents stuff treated with such disregard once they were gone.
I've gone through this before.
After I got out of the Marines, I worked as a security guard for a bank.
Someone who apparently owed the bank money died so they dispatched a few guys to sort through the belongings.
The guys organized the valuable stuff to be sold at an estate auction and the rest went into a dumpster.
My job was to keep the guys from taking anything valuable for themselves.
I had a friend who I thought was a bit of a hoarder.
Every time I visited his house, I was struck by the around of stuff he had stacked throughout the house.
Stacks of papers were on the stairs, on benches and on the floor in corners.
It wasn't crazy like you see on hoarders intervention shows, but there was something like that.
He died a few years back, and I often wondered what happened to all this stuff?
I know that his wife donated some of his military stuff to a local museum.
I was left reflecting on what we leave behind when we die.
Are we reduced to a cluttered house that someone else has to determine the value?
Would this person cleaning up my clutter realize the value of the things I left behind?
Why am I holding onto this stuff ... what is its value?
1) Am I holding onto these things for sentimental reasons?
2) Is some of it actually valuable but I don't have a use for it and should sell it
3) Is some of it is just trash that is out of sight and my laziness keeps me from going through it and throwing it away?
