As Don Aslett has stated several times in the book I'm reading now--your family members wouldn't have wanted to leave you things that you didn't want or were in the way. They wouldn't have had you associate them so strongly with the item that you feel trapped by it or with it.

I didn't do much in the declutter field today either. It's Monday, back in harness at work after a very strenuous weekend. I'm usually not kidding when I tell the folks at work that I go back to work on Monday to rest up from the weekend. I passed the day here without making matters worse, which is sometimes as much of an accomplishment as moving stuff out. I will confess that now that I've rediscovered them, I'm dying to bring those trunks in. But I need to have a place to park them first.

SRS