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To: Gauguin who wrote (38939)	9/30/1999 12:16:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

I could always get rid of stuff. That would have been the intelligent thing to do, but you know how it is, never enough time to do it right, but always enough time to do it over. I reached my breaking point when we had to move boxes that my mother had been packing over the years while she lived with us, every single solitary paper that the kids generated has been packed carefully in boxes labeled, for example, "Nicholas - Kindergarten - Box 3." So we've got boxes for both kids from pre-kindergarten through last year, and when opened, they contain homework, doodles, and the occasional piece of artwork that deserves saving. Not enough time to sort, so we hauled them. They make a pile about 4ftx5ft, 3 ft high. And then there are all the kid's clothes, since they were babies, I thought these had been given to charity, but they were saved, by good old mom, in case someone we knew had kids, apparently. And plastic bags, lawn and leaf sized bags, 4 or 5 of them, full of stuffed animals the kids outgrew but don't want to give away. It's nuts. I will give all the clothes and toys to charity, unless the kids promise to take them with them when they go away to college. I haven't counted the boxes of books yet, Chris says 100, but that can't be right.