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How to Determine What's Worth Preserving for Future Generations

My dad saved every receipt and document for decades and when he died we filled three dumpsters and I wonder what parts of his careful record-keeping actually mattered.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The abundance of information and objects in modern life makes it increasingly difficult to distinguish between meaningful legacy and mere accumulation.

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“Where Are You with Intergenerational thinking — 7th generation perspective?”

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