Quote Originally Posted by UltraliteAngler View Post
This is idealistic. You probably feel and operate this way. I doubt many other people do though, especially hoarders.
Thankfully I don't know any hoarders. At least not any of my close friends/relatives. If this was the expectation I would simply decline everything. I'm no minimalist (I have no idea how many things I have but it's way more than 150) but I'm also not a hoarder. As things stop being useful or lovely I'm fine with ditching them by whatever way I can, hopefully through gifting or at least recycling, free craigslisting, etc. Anything I would give away is not something I care about. If I actually care about something it is not likely I'll give away. My high school yearbooks come to mind. I could certainly go on with life if they were gone, but when the big earthquake comes they will be one of the things I will most miss if this building and its contents gets destroyed. And when I finally create a will (yes, I know I need to stop procrastinating and just get this done) those yearbooks will be left to the denver public library. I remember going there as a teenager and spending hours looking through the yearbooks from my high school from back in the teens and twenties. Perhaps decades from now someone would find it interesting to look through yearbooks from the 1980's. I can't imagine why, but then I'm sure the kids from the 1920's couldn't have imagined what I would find interesting in their yearbooks.