re: How sentimental are y’all?

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This.
Your loved ones stuff that you keep then becomes stuff your descendants have to route through when you die.

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I've been a part of this a lot with my grandparents dying with the past few years. I took only one thing to remember them. My grandmother's coffee cup which I filled many a time for her. My grandfather's block plane from his woodshop.

For me, I don't need or want half a house full of stuff to remember them by.

My poor step mother is from Germany and was mailed a several boxes of her parents "stuff" after they died. Its been spread out in a spare bedroom for over a year. She has no use for the stuff but also pains her to get rid of it. So it just sits in purgatory and every time she walks by the bedroom and sees it her day gets a bit worse knowing she has an dreaded unfinished task sitting there. Its fricking with her mental health.