Originally Posted by JanetM
Clearing their home of their 50+ years of collecting was so difficult. All of us chose something in remembrance with the rest going to charity. I thought to myself...is that it?..the sum total of our lives is our stuff?, and when it is disposed of it is as if the person never existed.
I've given this some thought over the years as we had to do the clean outs for both sets of parents.
I concluded that their things are symbols of who they were, what they enjoyed in life, but the sum of their lives is how you feel about them and how you remember them, and what kind of person you are.