I'm sitting on a lot of my deceased aunt's stuff, my deceased folks stuff, my deceased grandparents stuff, my stuff. I've liquidated some - things with little emotional value, integrated some, but have way too much old "stuff" and really need to liquidate 90% of it. It's a daunting task - I have no one left in the family to leave it to and I'm getting old myself. That makes it harder to let go of the memorable stuff. I have cousins and their families a few hours away that will get whatever is left when I am gone, but I do hope to weed it out before then.
I started doing that in 2015. I got about half way through reams and reams of photos, negatives and slides before taking a long break. I bought a high resolution backlit Canon CanoScan 9000F scanner just for this purpose. I hope to finish them in the next couple of years. Get them all on a thumb drive so I can peruse them on the big screen tv in my old age.
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