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<blockquote data-quote="Annb" data-source="post: 2696355" data-attributes="member: 25851"><p>My problem has been one of procrastination. I'd tell myself to get rid of excess paperwork but not do it until it became overwhelming (which is what happened lately). When we knew the builders were coming and needed space to work, it had to be done. I'm amazed there is any left now, I got rid of so much. There are still a few filing baskets to go through, but they are out of the way and I really will go through them once the building work is done.</p><p></p><p>Photos I have an uncountable amount, many of them not identified but I can work it out. Problem is, these days my memory is so unreliable that I need something there to prompt it - a photo or an object. Somehow objects that have lived with this family for generations have a very special feeling. They have become family and I can no more throw them out than I could a brother or a child. That 130 year old tureen represents my mother-in-law and her mother; those huge 120 year old platters almost <em>are</em> my grandmother, in a way. That silver cup for boxing, won by my dad as a 17 year old - nobody wants, but I can't throw it out. How on earth do people take family items to valuation programmes and sell them? I couldn't. Not that any of my heirlooms have any monetary value, you understand.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Annb, post: 2696355, member: 25851"] My problem has been one of procrastination. I'd tell myself to get rid of excess paperwork but not do it until it became overwhelming (which is what happened lately). When we knew the builders were coming and needed space to work, it had to be done. I'm amazed there is any left now, I got rid of so much. There are still a few filing baskets to go through, but they are out of the way and I really will go through them once the building work is done. Photos I have an uncountable amount, many of them not identified but I can work it out. Problem is, these days my memory is so unreliable that I need something there to prompt it - a photo or an object. Somehow objects that have lived with this family for generations have a very special feeling. They have become family and I can no more throw them out than I could a brother or a child. That 130 year old tureen represents my mother-in-law and her mother; those huge 120 year old platters almost [I]are[/I] my grandmother, in a way. That silver cup for boxing, won by my dad as a 17 year old - nobody wants, but I can't throw it out. How on earth do people take family items to valuation programmes and sell them? I couldn't. Not that any of my heirlooms have any monetary value, you understand. [/QUOTE]
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