So satisfying to get through all the accumulated stuff from our lives and in our case we have things from my parents and grandparents which has moved across the country with us. 🇨🇦
Your account is bringing me to tears from when I had to go through my adopted mother’s things and found letters to her from my birth mother that were written before I was born!
You don't think your daughter will be interested in your datebooks? My late father was also an avid datebook keeper. I have the one where he noted my son's birth and I cherish it.
O my, going through all the “old” things will bring back memories. For me it normally will bring me in a kind of nostalgic mood. Wishing you strength and wisdom to go through all of it.
Years ago I found (or was given) a bunch of letters my mother had written to her mother in her first years as married in Princeville Illinois [1945-1955?}. (My older brother was born there, then me 4.5 years later. Until I was five when we moved to Cincinnati. I transcribed them onto my computer (need to refind the transcription. She was delighted to get a Real electric sewing machine and kept asking her mother for more flour sacks. She sewed a lot and (My dad was a preacher) a lot of sets of clothes for my older brother and my father, and herself, of course. Claimed I could start to read and do math. Which I forgot immediately after 5yrs old. Started school in Cinci from scratch. worth saving!
That's so cool! I am looking forward to reading the my letters home, and eventually seeing what I saved from my mother (who wrote the letters). And maybe I referenced things she mentioned in her letters in mine.
De cluttering for me can either be very cathartic or take ages because I start looking at everything gets out back. 😘
So satisfying to get through all the accumulated stuff from our lives and in our case we have things from my parents and grandparents which has moved across the country with us. 🇨🇦
Your account is bringing me to tears from when I had to go through my adopted mother’s things and found letters to her from my birth mother that were written before I was born!
You don't think your daughter will be interested in your datebooks? My late father was also an avid datebook keeper. I have the one where he noted my son's birth and I cherish it.
My handwriting is so bad, that I can't even decipher what the notations are any longer (smile).
O my, going through all the “old” things will bring back memories. For me it normally will bring me in a kind of nostalgic mood. Wishing you strength and wisdom to go through all of it.
Thanks.
Years ago I found (or was given) a bunch of letters my mother had written to her mother in her first years as married in Princeville Illinois [1945-1955?}. (My older brother was born there, then me 4.5 years later. Until I was five when we moved to Cincinnati. I transcribed them onto my computer (need to refind the transcription. She was delighted to get a Real electric sewing machine and kept asking her mother for more flour sacks. She sewed a lot and (My dad was a preacher) a lot of sets of clothes for my older brother and my father, and herself, of course. Claimed I could start to read and do math. Which I forgot immediately after 5yrs old. Started school in Cinci from scratch. worth saving!
That's so cool! I am looking forward to reading the my letters home, and eventually seeing what I saved from my mother (who wrote the letters). And maybe I referenced things she mentioned in her letters in mine.