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Originally Posted by matthewb0051
I'd say save the cool stuff and pass along but hard to determine what exactly other people will find cool.
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Clearing out my grandmother's place was interesting. She never really worked, just traveled and gardened, she donated most of her parents' "platter room" to the Grand Rapids public museum, pix of her as a teenager with the Sphinx, there's a big park in GR with her mom's maiden name, you get the idea probably...
All of us grandchildren, now in our 30s/40s, having grown up around her (very well curated) stuff had one recurring comment: "wow, cool! I don't need that though..." Gotta Persian rug (bought by her parents in Persia) and some three foot tall brass candlesticks out of it. Also a desire to (as above) decrappify or at least up our own game on the quality of ephemera to pile up!