Keepsakes - how sentimental are you?

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I feel you we have a box of ornaments which has moved house with us and remained packed in the garage. They belonged to husbands mother who died before I even met him. They arent ornaments of any financial value and we dont want them on display as arent to our taste. I thought he would pick one and donate the rest to a charity shop but no we had to move the entire box!
I'm not particularly sentimental about stuff probably due to many house moves in my life but he is so we have kept these and other stuff. Most of which lives in the garage.
I was able to get him to donate the china cabinet though, which prior to moving house was living in our guest bedroom. So there has been some compromise.
But personally I cant see the point of keeping things you never use and dont think you ever will.

 

[Snippysnips]

I had a argument with my dad about not keeping stuff, we got a ton of stuff from my grandparents, great aunt, great great grandparents etc an it's all kept in the attic in boxes

I don't mind keeping the odd few things, there's a watch still in its original box with it's receipt from 1912, an I've two little wind up toys that were my great grans, but honestly like I told him, wtf am I to do with all these boxes upon boxes of stuff, I won't be using any of it

He doesn't want to sell anything, an he wants me to keep them to pass them on, but really I don't want all of this, its going to go from one attic to another to another if my kids don't sell, I honestly feel like his generation may be about the last that really kept heirlooms, am not really interested in it much, I don't want to use it an I don't see the point in just keeping it in boxes either if someone else can get use out of it, he seems to think that if I have kids they will keep it an pass it to there's but honestly I see absolutely no chance in that happening, if I don't get rid of it then they certainly will

 

[Black.bird]

I don't keep cards or anything, as I don't like hoarding things.

If something is super-important then I'll take a photo of it then re-home it.

When an elderly relative passed, I helped clear her house for sale and it was absolutely laden with 'stuff' that would have had special meaning to her in some way ... yet there was so much of it that she probably never even looked at any of it. From old newspapers (which smelt terrible) to top shelf alcohol bottles ... there was a LOT. In one room, where everything had been piled up against a wall, the wall was actually bent inwards. There were even wall cabinets full of fancy china and crystal - rarely (if ever) used as she was saving them "for best". The charity shops didn't want any of it, and nobody turned up to the scheduled garage sales, so it ended up in landfill.