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Downsizing, To Move or Not to Move? That is the Question

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@hraka13
So sorry to hear of your dilemna.
I was that granddaughter who was faced w disposing of family (maybe?) photo albums that my very mentally compent mother knew nothing about. They were precious enough to have been moved in 1906 from ND to OR when she moved west by rail w her parents, my grandparents. But what to do w photos when the only survivor recognizes nobody? I still wonder who those women in their long elegant dresses were? The photos were important enough to bring west when very little else was brought. I still remember the dusty rose velvet padded covering on the album. But no survivors in my mother's generation knew who they were. Sad that nothing in that album was labeled. And by the time I had to decide what to do w the album, it was in tatters. It felt like something that was important to someone at sometime, but who? and when?

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@joanland You made me think of something I did with having lost my Mom and will ask that it be done for me with specific things.
My Mom had saved multiple letters from her 'baby brother' who went MIA in WWII. I decided to put them with her at her side before the final release of 'ashes to ashes dust to dust." That was in 1997 when she passed.
I am 83 and need to do what the Swedish call 'death cleaning." The problem I'm having is getting to it for various reasons.
I don't want to leave everything for my sister to do who has to come a good couple of thousand miles. I am thinking seriously of moving back near here when it looks necessary in order to make it easier for her....I'm single, she is single.
Barbara