Struggles with possesions.

Does your family give you their unwanted items? Stuff that they don't want anymore but have some sort of sentimental attachmnent to? Everytime my parents or Grandma M visit they bring along a car load of stuff and happily put it in my garage with a smile and why they thought I should have it. Now that I am trying to organize our house I am going through these mountains of boxes and have just now realized that not all this stuff is mine.

Your thinking how bad could it really be? Lets talk Christmas decorations. A couple weeks ago I attacked the garage with relish sorting boxes and organizing them into piles. Gardening equipment here, kids outside toys here, outgrown clothes here, Holiday decorations here, etc. Imagine my suprise when I counted Christmas decorations boxes and it was 17. Now I love Christmas just as much as the next guy but 17 big boxes worth? Looking through the boxes I became overwhelmed. What was I supposed to do with all of it? Some of it was stuff I had bought, some was things I remembered from my youth, some was just stuff. So I boxed it all back up and shut the garage. Because that is waht I do when I get overwhelmed, it was either that or throw myself down on the pavement in fustrated tears. I have now since edited the vast amount down to 8 boxes. The other 9 boxes are sitting patiently waiting for a new home. Along with some other cast off's.