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Originally Posted by Blessings2You
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.
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Here is what I would do with the paper stuff (ticket stubs, letters, etc.): Scan them into the computer and store them electronically. The paper will eventually degrade, but you could scan them into the computer and store them on CD's or even have them printed out and bound in a book (Ritz Camera does things like that pretty cheap).