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[Financialgrl]

Dad threw NOTHING out.  When he died 4 years ago I did a cursory look at all the junk he'd collected.  Two years ago I decided to move and began in earnest really tossing stuff out.  Lots of stuff got tossed but among his junk were things I kept for our family's keepsakes - my grandfather and my father's honorable discharge papers, pics of my parent's marriage (they didn't have a wedding - went to a beautiful old church and married by the minister there - with two friends as witnesses), my dad's baptismal certificate, etc.

Lots of stuff found made me realize I wished I'd asked my father more about them while he was alive.  It's great digging up old treasures you didn't remember you had or even know you ever had!