TheBanyanTree: No more hoarding...I think!

[NancyIee at aol.com]

I recently went through a carton of stuff left from my Mom's house, after  
her passing and the sale of the family home. It had not looked in that box, 
for  I thought it contained only old medical and bank papers, possible some 
passport  or birth information that I might want to keep.
 
There was all of that, plus some writing I had done in school, teenage  
drivel and fanciful tales, first loves and adolescent poetry. I had not 
realized  my mother kept it all. I read through those writings, of an unpractised 
and  naive hand, someone I used to me, the key to a lot of forgotten memories.
 
I will throw them all away, along with all the other stuff, as I try to get 
 out of hoarding mode and downsize my piles of "stuff". I must come from a 
long  line of hoarders, for there were also old love letters from my father 
there, and  family notes of dates and affections and history of no 
importance.
 
Except to me.