Purging Baby/kid items
I have a hard time letting go of certain baby items, like the Gymboree type blankets. I was still hanging onto those for some reason.
With the kid's help, I chose one blanket for each child to keep in their memory box. I took pictures of the rest of them to use as photo book backgrounds one day so now I can give those away to an organization that collects baby items for low income mothers :-)
As far as clothes go, I chose a couple of outfits per child and donated the rest. In that case, I already had pictures of the kids wearing them.
I plan to take pictures of some of the cherished toys, particularly playMobil. I think I am really attached to those :-) A picture takes up hardly any space but can still bring back the memories. Why clutter our houses with stuff that will probably never get used again?
"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, "What? You, too? I thought I was the only one." C.S. Lewis