We didn't build Värd from a whiteboard.
We lived it.
"In the process of dealing with our parents' passing, once past the grief, we were overwhelmed with the things of a life well lived. We watched as items we knew meant something were walked out of a house they spent 50 years in for under $5 each — and what wasn't sold went to a landfill."
Without context, stories, and memories of what everything means and why it was kept, determining value becomes an insurmountable task. Who is left to tell you the story of what these things mean, and why they were clearly important?
Gen X and Z will inherit not just houses and IRAs — they will inherit mountains of "stuff." Faced with grief and no roadmap, families are left with only three bad options: landfill, estate sale, or a storage unit bill that never ends. None of them preserve what actually matters.
That helpless feeling is what gave life to Värd. A place to capture the story behind every item before the people who know it are gone. Not a household inventory — a living archive of your family's history.