Originally Posted by JUNEC
I had to clean out my parents house over a year ago. Although my dad passed about 8 1/2 yrs before my mom, she was diagnosed with alheimer's 2 yrs before she passed. My parents saved everything. I was reading postcards I had written them from camp when I was 9 yrs old and postage was only 2 cents. My mother had the first letter that my dad wrote to her. I still have 3 huge storage bins of papers still to go through.
I only have so much room in my house - In my opinion I'd rather stuff it with fabric.
Well, as a genealogist and family historian, I am BEGGING you not to get rid of that stuff. It is priceless to anyone interested in the family history. If there isn't anyone in the extended family who is interested, you can put in plastic bins and store it in the garage. That would be better than getting rid of it, because I can almost guarantee that someday someone will be crying that it was thrown away.