"Nobody else will want them let's face it."
I happen to vehemently disagree with this statement made by a friend yesterday when we were discussing recording our memories. She has cleared the decks at her house so there will be no "rubbish" left for her children to deal with when she leaves this mortal earth.
I was telling her that I was finally going through and
tossing 35 years worth of tickets, pamphlets and programs from 35 years of overseas travel..... BUT before I tossed them
I scanned all that could be scanned. I am going to put all of those digital images on my hard drive in the photo folders to which they relate. I'm sure some of the kids will enjoy them. Of course I have saved hard copies of some important documents like the luncheon menu from when I dined in
The Strangers' Dining Room at the House of Commons in London.
I have a bad case of Hoarditis and find it difficult to part with ephemera but I just don't have the physical space to store it all.
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Although I have transcribed all of the entries in them into
my online diary I still have a collection of my
old physical diaries. Today I took
a giant leap forward and tossed out all my old work diaries (I have been retired for nearly 7 years). I don't think I'll be quite brave enough to part with personal diaries ....just yet.
Maybe nobody else will want them but I'm giving my descendants the option of saying Yes or No.
Will you leave plenty of memories behind?
