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What do you do with your father (or mother’s) stuff after they die? The small personal items. The photos. The bits and bobs from their life?
What to do with it all when you have no space yourself to store it. Will you want to look at it often? Infrequently?
- awe manmonospaced
- Take some for keepsake, and donate the rest. Or garage sale.pango
- Pics is hardGuyFawkes
- Kept a few items of my dads clothes I still wear, the rest got sent to charity. Father in-law died recently and virtually all his stuff went to charity except..PhanLo
- ... photos and the parts my mother-in-law wanted.
Some people find it really hard to let go, I've seen really different responses in my familyPhanLo - Going narrow it down to a ‘memory box’. Just one box I can store of stuff to remember them by.shapesalad
- I took pictures / scans of it all and made a websiteGnash
- +1 for the memory box idea, a few special items that can go anywhere with you. For me/us, the person was the memory of them rather than their stuff : |MrT