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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Oh my gosh - OLD CHRISTMAS CARDS! A PP posted about this. I was in my 90-year-old mom's house last week, going through all the charity mail in her "junk room" - aka my old room. She gets tons of charity mail from scam charities and it is exhausting to make sure she is not giving them money.

Anyway, I discovered that she has been saving old Christmas cards. Years worth. Just in one of the giant boxes in that room. I almost cried. I'm an only child, one who posted upthread, and I can feel a panic attack coming on at the very thought of cleaning out her house. The pictures and cards and things she saves from years ago, while sentimental to her, mean nothing to me. It would be different if she ever looked through them, but she does not. They are just packed away waiting for me to deal with at some point.

I swear I will never do this to my kids. I actually think about it because I am afraid I might change my stripes as I get older. but she has always been this way and I am less inclined to keep things. I still do keep more than I probably should, but I definitely make an effort to get rid of things.[/quote]

I keep cards and letters from my parents (as well as spouse and kids). I don't expect those things to have any significance to my kids. No, I don't look at them... but really they don't take up a lot of space, either.[/quote]

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