RYAN JOHNSON | WHY OUR PARENTS STRUGGLE TO PART WITH THEIR POSSESIONS FOR AARP
October 16, 2026 Ryan Johnson
“They are yours if you want them!” say most parents later in life. Loving this next piece by #lcmartist Ryan Johnson for AARP about parents departing with their stuff. “The author surveys a future inheritance of clocks, beer steins and all the other treasures his family can’t bear to throw away. “You Can’t Take It With You, So Apparently I Have To.” Why do our parents struggle to part with their possisions? We say enbrace the conversations with kindness, take the item, ask for the story, even if you don’t want the thing, ask why it matters, where it came from and what it means to them.
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