What to do with your childhood stuff

Life Kit

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🗓️ 15 February 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Do you have boxes filled with photos, artwork and artifacts from when you were a kid? Here's how to decide what to keep and toss — and manage the emotions that come up along the way.

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0:25.0	Hey everybody, it's Mary L. So, my dad found my Polly pockets the other day.
0:29.0	Yeah, I know.
0:30.0	It's a big find.
0:32.0	He sent me a picture. I've got all the classics the pink heart the big pink star the pastel green one I even have one shaped like a koala I am 35 years old and I'm pumped to play with these.
0:44.0	But also, okay, realistically, what am I supposed to do with them after?
0:49.0	Give them back to my parents?
0:51.0	Display them?
0:52.0	I mean, I don't want to get rid of them. They're precious. to my parents, display them?
0:52.5	I mean, I don't want to get rid of them.
0:54.0	They're precious.
0:55.0	But my parents are in possession of a lot more
0:57.4	of my precious, semi-precious, and not at all precious,
1:01.6	childhood stuff, and I think they might be ready to offload some of it.
1:05.0	The time comes for many of us,
1:08.0	often at our parents' insistence,
1:10.0	when we are faced with our childhood belongings,
1:12.0	preschool artwork, report cards, we are faced with our childhood belongings.
1:12.6	Preschool artwork, report cards,
1:15.2	those shingards you wore to play soccer in high school.
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