Your aging parents' stuff

Estate sales line up yesteryear’s valuables: china, silver, collectibles, oak furniture, 1980s geese decor. Increasingly, adult children of aging parents don’t want — or can’t fit — all that stuff. “It is so common now,” said DeAnne Wilfong, senior move manager and co-owner of Smooth Transitions in Spokane. “The kids were raised on IKEA, Martha Stewart, Pier 1, Pottery Barn; that’s what they want.”

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Sun., July 9, 2017

Smooth Transitions co-owner DeAnne Wilfong says items like an old console TV the wooden magazine rack are hard to move.

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An American-made cigarette holder with a mechanical bird to grab the smokes, center, a wooden bowl and a dining room set are among the items DeAnne Wilfong, of Smooth Transitions, is trying to dispense of for her client.

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Some of the items DeAnne Wilfong is trying to move for her client is a mid-century modern decor star burst clock.

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Mid-Century modern kitchen ware for sale at the home of DeAnne Wilfongs client.

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DeAnne Wilfong is the co-owner of Smooth Transitions of the Inland Northwest. Wilfong holds a drapery from a bedroom of a north-Spokane client that she is helping to move.

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