I completely understand how hard it is to tackle years of accumulated "stuff". Kids, nieces/nephews got our family treasures and things that they didn't want helped many people at Goodwill and St Vincent de Paul. I was a bit surprised how some things that I thought would have great importance to family members actually had none. I had a few tears and many laughts...especially when I learned not one family member gave a hoot about an ugly pillow made by my grandmother that I had hung on to (out of a false sense of obligation) for 40 yrs.
Best advice I received was to give away and/or toss old photos. Those I wanted to keep, I took photos of the photos (better than scanning) and I saved them as a digital scrapbook. I eliminated about a dozen boxes of photos this way. Good luck and welcome to TV!
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