Welcome to the Organized 365 Podcast. I'm your host, professional organizer,

productivity expert and motivational speaker Lisa Wooder. organizational and create lasting functional organizing in your home.

I have so much to share with you, so let's get started.

Today I want to talk to you about what do you save

when a loved one passes away now this could be your spouse it could be your parents or it could be a child and I'm really not going to talk much about children because I have not dealt much with people who have lost

children and I think that that's a whole different ball of wax. So mostly I'm gonna be

talking today about my experience with dealing with clients who have lost their spouses and my own

experience of losing my parents and many of my clients who have lost their parents as well.

And what do you save when they pass away?

So I'm going to start with a little humorous story

because it's going to get deep

and I want to start with a little levity.

Okay, so when I was seven, my grandmother passed away,

my dad's mother.

And I remember it was very sad.

I wasn't allowed to go to the funeral.

I think my parents thought I was too young.

I'm the oldest of all the grandchildren on both sides of the family.

So everyone kind of took their cue for my parents

as to what they did with their children based on what they did with me.

So I didn't go to that funeral.

And then when I was 13 in the spring of my eighth grade year, I lost

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