My DH would do the same thing. I was wanting to clean out what I'd put in the toy box my husband made our kids years ago. I thought if I hadn't needed or used them in so long, maybe just throw it all away and not go through it. But I just couldn't. And glad I didn't because there was a huge box of pictures from my parents house with pictures of five generations on both sides of my family. One day, I'll sort through them...one day.