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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As far as the "treasures" mixed in ... I guess I feel like if I don't know about it, I can't miss it. I would far rather they go through it and do most of the work, and keep what they think is most important, even if I would have made different selections.

Once upon a time, there weren't nearly so many family possessions to pass down; people didn't have as much stuff, they didn't have as much space to store it, and fires, weather, and large numbers of children destroyed and dispersed it. These days, you can almost be guaranteed to receive your baby teeth and a pile of clothes no one has worn in decades. Unless you move a lot, it is really easy to accumulate so much stuff these days.[/quote]

This is my theory.  For the most part, even wealthy people in the 19th century didn't accumulate as much "stuff" as we have now.  My parent's generation was the first to really deal with cleaning out lots of stuff from their parents' houses when they died, and my generation has an even bigger job to contend with (because we have the accumulated stuff of our grandparents and parents, and people have even more stuff now).  Because of that, I am very cautious about what I keep.  I don't want to do that to my dc. [/quote]

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