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I read once that when you have to let go of things that are old family items, you take photos of them. Use the photos to create an album, posting the picture on one page and writing down the memories on the opposing page. I was going to do that starting with the heirloom cut glass that I've dragged around for years. When asked via phone, neither our daughter nor son were interested in them. We ended up visiting our progeny before I had taken pictures, so I took the box of glassware to OH. I came home with one piece - she decided to keep all the rest!I'm struggling with the downsizing. My furniture is mostly family hand-downs going back as far as the 1860s in a couple of examples. It suited my old house which was Victorian but it won't really go in this house which is 20th C. Mum's furniture does suit it so I expect that I'll be keeping that with certain exceptions. There isn't room here for my piano which was my grandmother's wedding present from her parents in 1915 and is a rather pretty burr walnut upright with boxwood marquetry and mother of pearl inlay decoration. I'll really miss it. Not sure what will happen to it as charity shops won't take it. I offered it on Freecycle but no-one replied.
Slowly but surely, I plan on getting "portraits" of all the memory items before they go into our garage sale later this year.