I was looking at estate sale websites earlier this week, and it just made me sad. It is depressing to think that eventually you end up at the point where you die and there's no one who wants all of your art or heirloom furniture or their bronzed baby shoes, so your treasured possessions end up on the internet for people to peruse and underbid on. My parents definitely have keepsakes from when I was a kid, and it's sweet looking through them, but what in the world am I going to do with my bronzed baby shoes on a wall plaque, or my "diploma" from kindergarten graduation?
I hoard mementos like that too (birthday cards from my best friend in elementary school, the first debate trophy I won, etc), and I'm trying so hard to pare them down every year, because they just sit in a closet or a box until I'm sorting again and I get all nostalgic and clingy. I just found a box full of rocks, literally rocks, that I collected when I was younger. My parents finally passed them on to me when I bought a house (4 years ago), and they're still sitting in a cupboard in my basement. /smh