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Subscribing to this thread. We still have a young family, but someday I think we'll want a smaller place. This one is bigger than I ever though I'd own anyways. My folks are in this position. They bought a BIGGER house once we were grown, and yes it's filled. They know they need to downsize because just caring for that house is overwhelming, but it's so hard now because they're there and they have all the stuff...
I disagree about not "saving heirlooms for the kids" though, but I think I've grown more sentimental with age? At least ask the kids if they want any of it before selling it or donating it. My sister has my grandmother's dining room table and side hutch and honestly I love seeing it in her house. If I had a place for my old bedroom set (that was my father's before me) I'd totally take it and put it in my house. I have the piano that my father bought me as a child, and I've moved it something like eight times (yes, for real lol...crazy). My daughter is going to start taking lessons on my childhood piano and that means something to me. You can't write everyone from this generation off as unsentimental...some of us want some of the heirloom items in our houses.
I disagree about not "saving heirlooms for the kids" though, but I think I've grown more sentimental with age? At least ask the kids if they want any of it before selling it or donating it. My sister has my grandmother's dining room table and side hutch and honestly I love seeing it in her house. If I had a place for my old bedroom set (that was my father's before me) I'd totally take it and put it in my house. I have the piano that my father bought me as a child, and I've moved it something like eight times (yes, for real lol...crazy). My daughter is going to start taking lessons on my childhood piano and that means something to me. You can't write everyone from this generation off as unsentimental...some of us want some of the heirloom items in our houses.