I read something like that recently you might like:
> The great junk transfer is coming. A look at the burden (and big business) of decluttering as Canadians inherit piles of their parents’ stuff. Sorting, storing and disposing of old family belongings will be a labour-intensive challenge in the next decade as baby boomers age.
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."
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.
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.
> The great junk transfer is coming. A look at the burden (and big business) of decluttering as Canadians inherit piles of their parents’ stuff. Sorting, storing and disposing of old family belongings will be a labour-intensive challenge in the next decade as baby boomers age.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-the-great-jun...