I'm in a bit of a panic right now. I come from a family of packrats. At the moment Red and I are living in my parent's home (who are both deceased) but it is still full of stuff they had when they were living. My brothers don't want to deal with it. Red and I will be moving in about 2 months which means I only have 2 months remaining to deal with it since this home will be sold at that point. All of this has resulted in a huge increase of stress for me in having to deal with this. My parents built this home when I was 5, so there are things in this house that have been here almost my entire life. This is not what the OP had in mind with this thread, but this is where I am. Any one else ever deal with this? I would love to just give it all away, but how? Right now I am staring at my father's collection of Life Magazines, AU Glomerata's from 1897 that belonged to my grandfather, and a collection of dated empty beer cans that were my fathers. He drank a beer every year on the anniversary date of his wounding in Korea. Do I just toss them? What about my parent's souveniers from their trip to Haiti? What about my father's uniform from when he was at the Citadel? Sorry for the hijack. I'll go get a chai and recoup.
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