It's the Brian Lairn Show here on WNYC.

I'm Tiffany Hanson in for Brian today.

He will be back on Monday.

Right now, we're going to tie up this show with a little advice for what can be, for some people,

a particularly uncomfortable conversation between adult children and their parents. What are we going to do

with all of this stuff? Have your parents amassed collections of knickknacks, gadgets, antiques,

heirlooms, other items that maybe you classify as junk. Maybe they bring you random little

items whenever they visit, try to foist a whole bunch of stuff to you en masse during your trips

home. Are they sensitively leading decluttering efforts or is it turning into sort of a knockdown

dragout? Well, you can call, let us know what your experience is.

212-433-9-6-9-2. You can call us. You can text us at that number with us to talk about it and shed a little

light on this potentially big family conflict is Emily Stewart, senior correspondent at Business Insider.

Hi, Emily. Good morning. All right. So for well-off

parents who pass away, leave their kids, or maybe they're just downsizing, right, leave their kids

with lots of stuff to sort through. You write that Gen X, Millennials, Gen Z are becoming really

inundated with this boomer windfall of items, right?

From, from previous, and maybe even not just their stuff, but like from previous generations.

Is it, what is it about boomers that makes them have so much more stuff than the rest of us,

maybe, question mark?

I mean, to some extent, this isn't necessarily, like, just about baby boomers.

You, we all accumulate a lot of things across our lifetimes.

That being said, we know that baby boomers do have some characteristics, right?

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