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Originally Posted by matthewb0051

The biggest thing was he had boxes and boxes of stuff from when he cleared out his mother and step father's house about 16 years prior. Pretty sure he didn't go through any of it, just couldn't part with it so in a box it went. I literally found his old report cards from the 1940s and 1950s that granny had saved.

My mom moved a while back. When she moved she took almost nothing other than her clothes and kitchen stuff. She told me, "if you want anything, come get it before I move. Anything that you don't take is going in the trash or being left for the people that buy the house."
I took a bunch of stuff home. I have it in boxes in storage costing money every month. The plan is to go get the boxes and go through them to weed out stuff and organize "when I have time." They included report cards from my parents and my grandmother when she was in elementary school (she's about to turn 97). I think that stuff is neat, but I'm sure neither of the kids will care.

I'd say save the cool stuff and pass along but hard to determine what exactly other people will find cool.

Exactly. My wife's grandmother's sister passed. Her daughter had an estate sale. We went and bought my wifes great grand parents' wedding crystal, and thought it seemed weird that the daughter didn't want that stuff.