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[quote=Anonymous][quote=doodlebug]Well, I am literally taking a break from going through some boxes of crap I've been moving around with me for the last 20 years. I can say definitively if you've been storing it, you don't need it and won't miss it. I just tossed a bunch of old pictures (and kept some too, and I'm sure they'll be tossed eventually.) I tossed old college papers and journals and letters...stuff that is either meaningless now or just embarrassing to look at. Really, it's OK. If they toss it, it will be OK. If you bring it to your new home and just store it, then you'll be burdening yourself every time you have to move or want to use the space they're taking up. My two cents is to either cull it down to 2 boxes before bringing it to your new place or give yourself a firm deadline to cull it once it's moved. It's really junk. I promise.

On that note...I'm sorry your family doesn't speak to you in a nurturing or supportive way. That stinks. But...they do love you as evidenced by being your storage unit for the last however many years.[/quote]

+1.  My parents recently downsized from the 3600 sq ft home they'd lived in my entire life to a 2 bedroom apartment.  All the decades of stuff accumulated by all of us needed to be sorted and each of us kids tackled getting rid of all of our old boxes of papers, etc.  I also live in a small space and couldn't store it myself so I kept a single rubbermaid container of various important stuff and keepsakes and junked the rest.  As PPs have said, if you haven't needed/touched/looked at this stuff in all this time, you DO NOT NEED IT!  Free yourself and your parents and just get rid of it, keeping a few tokens for yourself and your kid(s) to look at down the road.[/quote]

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