That's the hard part for me too, DM. Weeding out old phone bills and magazine articles I don't need any more is time-consuming, but easy.

My Mom's diaries, from the time she was eleven? My Dad's old 4-H books? My ticket stub from the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band concert? My grandmother's recipes? Grandpa's cereal bowls? The letters Mom and Dad wrote back and forth during WWII? My great-grandmother's quilt blocks?

Now that stuff is hard. Plus, after 10 years for Dad and almost 9 for Mom, I still have a hard time with anything that was theirs. Little by little, I am letting things go. Little by little.