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[quote=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.[/quote]

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