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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just own it!  Remind them that you are unsentimental and you do not value THINGS and STUFF the same way they do.  Then ask them to please just toss anything else that is yours from their homes, instead of shipping it cross country.

But don't be offended when they call you unsentimental, instead, AGREE with them.[/quote]

They are ATTACHED to that stuff though.  They can't just throw it out.  They are spending $$$ sending it to Op because they do value it and can't bring themselves to get rid of it...it's like a connection to their past and to happier times maybe(?).

I recently *made* myself sit down and go through boxes of my own kids' preschool artwork, elementary school papers, standardized test results, report cards, various keepsakes from their many childhood activities and OMG it was a brutal process to pare down, weed out and only keep a small percentage of what was in those boxes.  I had been saving it all to one day scrapbook it. Well, that day has come and I now have a separate stack for each kid that I am going to neatly scrapbook for them.  I think they'll appreciate getting those memories.  I do not think that they would one day appreciate getting boxes and boxes of old papers, artwork and random stuff from their childhood.  I am so glad that I took the time now to sort through it all. Not everything needs to be kept or should be kept.[/quote]

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