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.
More people experience this than they realize.
Neither hoarding nor discarding addresses the deeper question of how physical objects connect us meaningfully to past and future.
“Where Are You with Intergenerational thinking — 7th generation perspective?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.