What to do with a HUGE portrait and diplomas in small apartment?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Storage unit. I don’t even know where one of my diplomas is anymore.

No. Don't be a storage unit person! If you can't fit all your crap in your home then you have too much crap and need to get rid of it.

Nah you put it in storage and then realize you’re never going to use it and get tired of paying the bill so you can finally discard. It’s a process.

And better then being a big house person paying rent for garbage.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Storage unit. I don’t even know where one of my diplomas is anymore.

The risk of mold would be really high.

OP, I'd put the diplomas in a closet. The portrait, do you want it, as an adult? Could you take a photo of it and drop it at Goodwill?

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Under your bed.

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I'm going to inherit a large pastel of myself.

After my kids move out, I might put it up in their room. It would match. But I don't own it now and I never would have burdened them with "Big Mommy is Watching You" during their childhood.

I was a pretty generic cute kid. My portrait's not total trash. In 100 years somebody might want it. Sometimes older pictures with less emotional association and more of a historical style are favored. We sold a Victorian-era summer cottage in 2000 and the person who bought it absolutely insisted in getting the giant family bible and a large framed early photographic portrait of a female ancestor of mine. We duplicated it and gave her the original because it was a mandatory for her. She redecorated the whole house in dumb and period-incorrect ways but had to have a few bits and bobs of original provenance.

TL;DR let your kids keep or trash it because it's irreplaceable. If they like you, they might want it.

I have my grandpa's diplomas in a manila folder. Not sure what to do with them. But they hardly take up any room.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Storage unit. I don’t even know where one of my diplomas is anymore.

The risk of mold would be really high.

OP, I'd put the diplomas in a closet. The portrait, do you want it, as an adult? Could you take a photo of it and drop it at Goodwill?

Wouldn't that be a shame? Then you would be forced to toss it without guilt.

[Anonymous]

Even if the frames were expensive for your diplomas, it doesn't mean they still hold value or will be the right size or style for your daughter's diploma. The frames are a sunk cost and not worth holding onto. Ditch the frames and keep the diplomas if you want -- or it's OK to ditch those as well. The important thing is that you earned the degrees, not that you still have the framed pieces of paper.

The portrait is harder. Are you sure you don't have anywhere to hang it? Does your daughter want it eventually? If the answer to both questions is no, then I'd have a nice digital picture taken of it and let it go. Maybe not to Goodwill, but see if an antiques place might want it as a donation.

It's also OK if it goes to the landfill.

It's OK to let stuff go, even if the stuff was meaningful to our parents or grandparents. Our stuff should be displayed and used and loved, not stashed somewhere, because stashing just pushes the ultimate problem down the road to future you or your kid. You're in the best position to make the decision about what makes life easier for future you and your future kid, and it's best all around if you do future you the favor of deciding now what to do with it, even if that means going to landfill.