hubs' stepdad was a very nice man who finally died of alzheimers. he was very very orderly up til then, and when he went to the hospital the last time mil asked us to go thru his things in the cellar to clean things out. we found bxs and bxs of letter and journals starting from hs in the 20s thru the 30s, WWII and up to when he married mil (his second wife) also ALL the proceedings of a very nasty divorce. It was interesting to read how people lived way back when and what moral thought was.( he was quite the guy! and a real womanizer - he even had "pics" of a lady who was an officer at a local bank!! )In the end, he had no one to leave all this to and it was not what his wife would have wanted to find out, so hubs and I took all the paper home and burned it in the fireplace.
other than that - I dont keep anything in writing! I think it would be nice if what I owned could be recycled. I hate thinking anything useful would end up in a landfill. sharet