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thank you for this discussion....

this thought has come to me:

my daughter does "scrap-booking"  ...i've noticed the amazing amount and variety of stickers and such available to creat "pages" for big events in life, etc...

 since some of what your guest has said suggests that she wants to remember events and parts of her life, would a possible solution to SOME of the hoarded items be to sit with someone and create scrapbook pages to represent the event...to, in some way, have  the scrap book page now represent the event instead of the broken bridle or the bloodied shirt....photos, tiny icons, etc. can hold just as strong a representation of events as huge pieces of clothing or equipment....

the tiny shell on my shelf does this, the tiny pebble, the photo, the little eiffel tower....

has anyone explored this? replacing the big piles with wonderful scrapbooks?

thank you! 

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