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How Different Generations Handle Material Legacy

My parents saved everything thinking it might be useful someday and I throw everything away and I wonder if both approaches miss something essential about how objects carry meaning across time.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Neither hoarding nor discarding addresses the deeper question of how physical objects connect us meaningfully to past and future.

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