Inherited belongings can make grief arrive disguised as a storage problem.

Sorting a house is presented as a practical task and is rarely only that. Every box asks whether something can be let go, and the question is never really about the box, which is why an afternoon of tidying can leave people exhausted and short with each other. The logistics give the feeling somewhere acceptable to appear. Calling it a storage problem is often what makes it possible to begin.

If you are doing this, work in short stretches and stop when it stops being about the objects. Keep a few things without needing to justify them, and let some decisions wait.