Welcome to another episode of No Shame in the Home Game! In this friendly and insightful chat, Lacey and Sarah dive into the complexities of managing children’s memorabilia as they grow. From school art projects to sentimental baby keepsakes, they cover the importance of balancing emotional attachment with practical storage solutions. Listen in as they share personal stories, practical tips, and advice on coordinating with your partner about what to keep and how to enjoy those precious mementos without cluttering your home. Don’t miss their gratitude shoutouts and a hilarious tangent about the Mandela effect! For questions or personalized advice, visit the Q&A form on No Shame in the Home Game website.
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Welcome to No Shame in the Home Game.
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:The podcast that cares how
your home feels, not looks.
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:I'm Lacey, your, presence
to be felt today.
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:Sarah and I were just talking
about something my husband said.
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:that I am a presence that is felt.
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:And that's basically my, job today.
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:So I'm going to toss it over to Sarah,
who is our actual knowledgeable person.
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:Hi, Sarah.
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:Sara: Hi, Lacey!
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:just laughing so hard because, again, that
yin and yang, that, tortoise and hare.
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:Yes, you are.
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:You know, when you're in the room, whereas
I am very much the, if I could just melt
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:into the wall and just observe, like
I'm very much a fly on the wall more.
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:but I love that.
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:I love that dichotomy
between us and it's fun.
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:Yes.
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:Lacey: And I love that neither
one of us tries to make the
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:other one be the other way.
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:think that's beautiful.
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:Sara: Yes.
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:Lacey: Now, today we're talking
about something that I'm going
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:to have to get real good at soon.
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:And that is managing children's
memorabilia and stuff as they
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:age, bring stuff home from school.
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:We are adding another person
to this household and we
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:did not set it up that way.
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:So we've got some choices to
make and yeah, kids memorabilia.
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:Sara: Side story to kick this all off.
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:I have a friend and
she's the oldest of five.
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:as the oldest, she had this full
scrapbook of her first year of her life.
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:And then the second child had
one, but it wasn't as thorough.
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:And then the third one had a book
that was purchased that then.
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:Nothing was in it.
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:And then the fourth and the
fifth didn't even get a book.
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:that is a reflection of
time, energy, and resources.
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:you only have so much time
in the day and energy.
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:it's not that it's not important,
but you adapt to each kid and
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:what's going on in your life.
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:It's also really important if you have
a partner in this situation to first
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:of all, just reconcile expectations
of memorabilia with your partner.
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:I had a really heart stopping moment
where our son, I can't remember how
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:old he was, at some point my husband
was being all sentimental about,
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:that little tiny cap when they're
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:newbies.
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:Like that little cap.
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:I don't know.
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:What's that cap called?
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:It's just like their
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:first
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:Yeah, their first beanie hat and he was
talking about it and how important that
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:was to him and I was like, oh crap.
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:I'm pretty sure I don't have that anymore.
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:That's what I felt at the moment.
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:I did actually end up finding it.
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:I did actually end up keeping it
because it was important to him.
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:So whatever we say and discuss on here,
You still have, you still get that whole
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:situation of discussing with your partner
to see if they're on the same page as
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:you, which I'm not a marriage counselor.
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:Lacey: Oof.
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:Sara: are Joe's memorabilia feelings?
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:Lacey: Joe is very torn because he
wants less stuff, but then when it comes
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:down to actually not having the stuff,
he's but should we get rid of this?
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:He's a little bit more
emotional about things than I
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:think he likes to think he is.
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:I will say one thing and this
was his idea and I appreciate it.
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:Kids art.
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:He's like, if there's a
handprint, we keep it.
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:If there's something super
special about it, we keep it.
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:Other than that, it can go,
which has been a good thing.
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:Now, the problem that I think we're
going to run into in my household is
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:Isaac is the most sentimental human
I think I've ever met in my life.
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:he got mad at Joe for throwing
away their shampoo bottle because
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:it was their shampoo bottle.
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:For several months and
then he was upset about it.
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:So that's something we're working on
But yeah, he does not like letting
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:anything go So that actually is more
of my bigger concern Personally,
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:Sara: Wow.
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:That.
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:Okay.
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:Yeah.
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:I wasn't even going into
how the kid felt about it.
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:I was strictly focusing
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:on the adults.
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:Lacey: I didn't know That he
would be so attached to so many
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:random objects, but who is he?
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:Sara: we are so just so we can
be clear with our audience.
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:We are not talking about
shampoo bottles as memorabilia.
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:We are talking about items
that are personal to the
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:kid's journey through life.
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:So that little beanie hat that
comes from the hospital, if you're
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:going to keep hair and teeth.
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:Lacey: That's not for me.
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:I've already put a Nix on that one.
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:Sara: funny story about that.
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:My sister was living at my parents
house for a stint because they were
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:in between cities and jobs and houses.
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:and then they bought a
house and they moved out.
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:And then one day I was staying
at my parents house and I opened
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:this drawer on the nightstand.
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:And as I opened it, a bunch of
teeth came rattling with it.
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:And I'm staring at this.
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:And I was like, there's no way
these are from like my childhood.
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:So I called my sister and she's Oh yeah,
cause some of the kids lost some teeth
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:and I just threw them in that drawer.
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:So random, but also as your kids start
doing preschool and kindergarten and
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:doing sports, it's like the trophies
and the participation badges and
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:every single piece that they color
and the Thanksgiving themed art.
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:There starts to be a lot of decisions
and it becomes, it comes down to.
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:What you have to work with then.
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:So first of all, what's your
storage space situation,
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:right?
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:if you live in like a New York city
apartment, that's 600 square feet.
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:that decision's kind of made for you.
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:But again, if you have more space, talking
with your partner and getting on that same
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:page of what do we want to keep, what do
we not want to keep, and then putting.
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:Some kind of parameter or boundary
how much space do we want to dedicate
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:and what's the purpose of it?
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:are you gonna go back and look at
these items or is the desire that
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:you're gonna pass them on to your kid?
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:Lacey?
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:What do you think is the
purpose of keeping it?
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:Lacey: where I struggle a bit because,
so for example, my mom has this big
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:house full of our stuff, mostly mine.
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:Cause I just pieced out.
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:And since I was the last one, I was
like, yeah, I'll just leave stuff.
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:It's fine.
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:she's been trying to go through
all this stuff and she sent
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:me this, a giant pile of mine.
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:She's we need you to go through this.
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:And I was like, just throw it away.
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:I'm not going to do anything with it.
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:I haven't thought about it in that long.
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:now I do have a box that traveled
with me from like apartment
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:department and, college.
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:That was like my personal stuff.
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:So I I guess in my mind, I
took all that stuff with me.
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:I am not a reminiscer of looking
at things and going through things.
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:So like Joe's family, they
will open up like a photo album
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:and be like, look at this.
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:And it's very sweet.
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:I will never do that.
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:Now, we do have certain traditions
where at a high school graduation,
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:you get a video with all of your,
like with pictures of you growing up
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:So I, I struggle with that because
I am realizing I'm not all that
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:sentimental because I don't think
I'll do anything with those things.
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:And the only reason why I hold onto
things is that I feel like I should.
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:Or that I will regret it someday,
which I'm learning more and more.
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:Living to not regret something is not
a great excuse because then you're
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:starting from a place of negativity.
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:So I'm, I think I might be to an
extreme of like, I don't know.
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:I don't know what I would do with it.
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:I don't know if I would look at it.
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:Sara: and we have such an we are in
such a different Position than our
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:parents were and in a moment, I would
love to know what Carolyn did as far as
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:keeping memorabilia for all of the team.
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:Children in your household, but we're
in a unique position where there
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:is so much digital footprint now.
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:back in the day, right?
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:If you didn't keep that tangible
product, there was no alternative.
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:But now, even if you don't keep
everything, it's like, somebody is
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:going to have pictures of that event.
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:Somebody is going to have a copy of that.
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:What did Carolyn do growing up with
all of your artwork and papers and?
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:school photos and all that.
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:Lacey: I don't remember artwork.
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:I, unless there was
something, in 5th grade.
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:It was 5th or 6th grade.
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:I did a chalk pastel painting or art
piece of a tiger and it got put up
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:in the house because it was so good.
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:I remember that.
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:It was mine.
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:It wasn't a giant point of
pride of my life or anything.
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:but I do know she had.
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:A box that she collected stuff over
like the course of our, school years.
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:Cause I remember when I graduated,
she had a lot of those things.
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:now, so when it comes to sports,
we're, when I say we, I don't mean
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:me, the rest of my family are big
sports people and did a lot of sports
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:And when my parents built their house.
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:They, in the basement, specifically
put a, Hall of Fame type display
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:where we put all of those trophies
And those are still there to this day.
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:And it is funny because It's a very clear
view of who was most athletically gifted.
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:let's just say Lacey has three cubes,
whereas other people have nine.
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:and it's fine.
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:I'm okay with it.
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:At a certain point, we start putting
my academic achievements in there.
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:And so that, that was a
place where things could go.
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:Sara: and that actually brings up a great
first point about memorabilia is if you're
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:going to take the effort and space to keep
an item, it's about respecting the item.
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:So your parents built this case
to have all the trophies in right.
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:Versus if you have a Box in the basement
that they're all thrown in, like
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:really just evaluate with yourself.
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:Kind of what's the point of them
being in a box in the basement
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:by the water heater, right?
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:Or, the kids art that you can frame and
put on the wall and you're enjoying it.
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:I helped a client who she had a bunch of
memorabilia from her life in a closet.
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:And it was getting not
destroyed, but ruined because
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:stuff was stacked on top of it.
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:It was pushed all the way in the back.
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:You couldn't really see it.
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:we had a discussion about like, how
important are these items to you?
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:And so we really came up with a way for
them to be a protected and be enjoyed.
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:So again, thinking about, are you
keeping it for keeping its sake?
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:Are you keeping it to be enjoyed?
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:So that's another good talking point
with your partner or with yourself.
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:The one that I always come
to, and I think this is where
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:you and I are very similar is.
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:And this is going to get
a little existential.
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:The past, the present,
and the future, right?
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:If we hold on to too much of the
past, we're not going to have any
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:room for the future to grow into the
people your kids are becoming, right?
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:And then if you're so focused
on the future, if you get rid of
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:everything, then, you're not tethered
to the past and you may even not be
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:enjoying this moment because you're
trying to throw it away so fast.
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:So for me, I always try to think about
keeping that balance, like having
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:some memories, but not all of them.
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:And that comes honestly, a knee
jerk reaction from my mom, who.
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:Literally kept the school menu.
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:we found pamphlets to school plays
that we weren't even in the amount of
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:banker boxes of pieces of everything.
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:And again, it was so much that it was
almost preventing life from happening.
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:the weight of it was so much to manage.
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:Although, side note, I did see an
art project of mine from first grade,
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:which I don't know why I didn't go to
a therapist much earlier in my life.
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:I am not joking you when I tell you
it was, a shamrock that had a face.
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:And there was blood dripping,
and it was a murderous shamrock.
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:It was supposed to be, St.
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:Patrick's Day themed, but it was like this
little poem in my first grade handwriting
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:about this villainous murderous shamrock,
and I'm looking at it and I'm like, Mom,
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:how is this not concerning to anyone?
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:Lacey: I love that the
shamrock was villainous.
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:Like you, you didn't
even need a leprechaun.
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:No.
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:the actual shamrock itself.
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:Sara: Don't worry, he had a top hat.
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:But he also had blood dripping and
I believe he was holding a knife.
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:it was creepy beyond creepy, but so
finding that balance point, right?
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:Of how much do we want to hang on to?
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:How much is that adding
to our present day?
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:I think that's what it is.
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:How much is hanging on to the past
enriching our current moments?
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:Lacey: That's so interesting.
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:Cause I'm a very future oriented person.
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:So I do think it's interesting
to think about that.
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:Cause I do see, that I am
like, what will future me want?
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:You know what I mean?
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:what will we need in the future?
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:I don't necessarily feel
emotionally attached to it.
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:Sara: there really is like so many,
Different lenses to look at it
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:through, right?
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:the practicality of it, the emotional
of it, I mentioned my mom, you
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:talked about your parents, the
history, what was shown for us.
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:there's so many different ways to
look at it, but going back to the
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:practical steps for anyone listening,
who's okay, just tell me what to do.
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:there's a couple of different methods.
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:The method I find the easiest, So you can
either do it in the moment or delayed.
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:And I like to do delayed.
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:So for instance, son goes into first
grade, all first grade, I throw all
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:of the artwork into a drawer and
then once maybe mid year or wait
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:till the end of the year, I just go
through everything in the drawer.
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:And you're like, Oh, I have 20
drawings of the exact same tree.
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:Oh, okay.
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:I have, 20 examples of what does
handwriting look like in the first grade.
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:And then you can cherry
pick of the whole drawer.
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:Okay, what are three pieces
to reflect first grade, right?
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:So that way you're
getting a cross section.
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:Lacey: and you're giving yourself
that gift of future you, right?
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:you are future you.
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:Maybe you're not ten years
down the road, but you are.
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:So that's why I like the idea
of it being in the future, make
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:the choices, and then go on.
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:I like this a lot, Sarah.
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:Sara: the only thing is to know yourself
because it's really easy to just put
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:it all in a drawer and then never go
through the drawer and start another
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:drawer.
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:Lacey: true.
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:Sara: So know thyself.
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:if that's honestly not an option
for yourself, then be honest
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:and go through that stuff daily.
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:And if a new piece of artwork comes in,
decide, do I want to keep the one on
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:the fridge and replace it with this?
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:like which one's going to go in
the recycling, do it daily if you
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:don't think that you're going to
take the time to do like a big lift.
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:I know a lot of people really enjoy
the companies where you can send
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:off a whole box and then they scan
it and create like a little book
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:for you.
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:So that's definitely another option.
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:With Isaac, where he actually wants to
hold on to things and I mentioned this
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:in the episode with Ashley, I think it's
helpful to give kids a certain size box
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:we talked about, like a treasure chest,
and if that she and Pooh model means a
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:lot to him, like he can put it in his
treasure chest and then he gets to learn
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:as that treasure chest gets full, like
this new item he wants to put in, it's
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:okay, we'll go through the treasure chest.
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:Is there something in here that doesn't
have an emotional tether anymore?
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:I wouldn't use those words
with a five year old,
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:Lacey: I use a lot of He knows
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:what alliteration is.
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:We've had a lot of conversations
about alliteration, so he might.
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:I don't know.
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:He's very smart.
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:Sara: But I am definitely of the
mind of not to push kids either way.
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:Don't push them to hold onto things
and don't push them to get rid
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:of things before they're ready.
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:Because I think that has a whiplash
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:Lacey: Well, I like, too, that you
are making them part of the process.
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:I like that a lot.
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:Sara: Making part of the process.
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:And like we discussed with Ashley,
it's very much about teaching them
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:that one day they will be doing all
these choices for themselves and.
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:Going back to the practical
points that you can take away from
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:this, it's defining a space that
makes sense for your household.
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:Is it a drawer?
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:Is it a plastic tote?
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:Is it a banker's box?
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:Is it a treasure chest?
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:I have this memorabilia
box from high school.
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:I guess it's, I guess it was really Once
I became like more of my own agency.
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:So like middle school through high
school, and it's this, it's about the
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:science of a banker's box, but it's
decorative and I would put things in
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:there and just like I said, as I got
full, I would dump the whole thing out.
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:Like in a lot of it, I'd be
like, Oh yeah, I remember this.
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:I remember this.
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:And sometimes I pick up and
I'd be like, I don't know this.
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:I don't remember.
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:and then I could throw that away, which
I'm actually do to do that because.
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:I took some items recently back
from my parents home and I am, my,
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:my safe boundary is, ballooned out.
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:I need to reduce it.
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:So I will actually be doing
this myself very soon.
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:And then like we always, like
I've said many times before,
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:it's that low hanging fruit.
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:Lacey: Yeah.
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:Sara: actually really surprised at
your lack of sentimentI can't say the
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:Lacey: Sentimentalism.
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:Sara: Yes.
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:Is there anything you've hung on to, from
your wedding day or from when the kids
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:Lacey: yes, you can tell
this is how sentimental I am.
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:I have a box that I put wedding crap
on because it was like leftovers
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:from stuff that keeps things.
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:That was in our basement, in our
old house that got moved here.
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:I think I'm a little bit more strategic.
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:So like our wedding favor, and this
isn't my idea, all of my family really
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:did this, was a Christmas ornament.
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:So every year when we put our
Christmas tree up, we hang the
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:Christmas ornament from our wedding.
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:it's a, you'll like this there.
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:It's a test tube.
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:So Joe, right?
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:Test tube, science, and then, a sprig
of purple lavender on the inside.
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:So that's me.
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:Sara: Oh, that's really thoughtful.
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:I love
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:Lacey: And so, got like 30 of those
because, you always make way too many.
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:So I do have that stuff.
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:I, Now, I will say there are some things
from my kids to the hat, their bracelets
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:and my bracelets from the hospital.
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:I'm like, I don't know
what to do with this.
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:So I have a box that I just threw them in.
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:Sara: Okay.
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:Yes, each kid has a
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:box or all thrown in a box
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:Lacey: in a box together.
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:A bunch of sonograms, too, which
I need to go through and because I
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:felt guilty throwing them away, but
because I had gestational diabetes,
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:I got sonograms like every week at a
certain point because they're afraid
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:the baby's going to get too giant.
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:That's a whole other conversation.
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:So I do have those.
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:There are a few pieces
of clothing of theirs.
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:I can think of it right now.
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:I, a onesie that my dear
friend Katie got, for Isaac.
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:It's when she lived in New York.
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:So it says Brooklyn and it's
got like headphones on it.
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:And it just was so cute.
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:But it also was just such a
way for someone who was far
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:away to feel close to us.
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:And so that This next baby will wear cause
I know we have it, So I think something
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:like that I will definitely keep.
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:obviously handprints and footprints.
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:Cause Joe told me I had to, yeah.
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:Sara: I will say, I think the thing
I'm most sentimental about was
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:books because we read Books every
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:Lacey: We have yet to
go through our books.
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:I have a feeling there will be
some sentimentality with that one.
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:Sara: that one, we had so many books that
I was not equally attached to all of them.
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:And over the years I've been
able to cut down and cut down.
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:But what I do love is I've
incorporated the key five or 10
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:that we have into our bookshelf.
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:So I have a mix of.
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:Different age levels.
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:And what's fun is when, a little
brother or sister comes over of a
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:friend or, like my niece was in town.
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:It was actually nice to have those
books to pull off the shelf and share.
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:Those I have incorporated
and I love seeing them.
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:Lacey: I will say that is something
that, Joe's mom got him a copy of
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:a book that he really loved as a
child as a gift because it got like
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:out of print and we have it now.
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:And he really loved that.
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:Now, we don't have the actual copies,
but my mom did buy a copy for us
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:of some of the books that we read a
lot as kids, like Spooky Old Tree.
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:That was a big one with
the Bernstein Bears.
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:It's Bernstein, not Berenstein,
even though I could go down that.
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:Um,
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:Sara: wait, I have to.
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:One time on Jeopardy, I was so mad.
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:Somebody was awarded points and
then they came back after the
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:commercial break and took away
points because they said that name.
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:They said they, they said the name wrong.
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:And I was yeah, but you
know what they meant like,
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:Lacey: have you heard of the
Mandela effect and all that stuff?
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:I could go into a big old I recently had
one of those I swear Dick Cheney died.
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:I swear.
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:I remember think pieces about it.
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:I remember people.
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:And when it came out he recently
endorsed Kamala Harris, I'm like, wait.
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:Is this a joke?
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:'cause he died a couple
years ago, so it's fine.
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:I've been thinking
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:about this a lot.
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:Sara: opposite problem.
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:I, the answer to the
Jeopardy clue last night.
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but part of the clue, cause they
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passed away in:
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be Madeline Albright.
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never know when a love turns coming up.
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:Lacey: embarrassing Bears
Mandala Effect, important books.
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'cause I don't remember reading
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because the book stayed around.
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that's not what I meant, but I have this
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agree that would be a good thing for us.
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with Isaac, we did a storybook theme,
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cards, we asked them to bring a book.
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Tomlinson from this person.
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years later now to be like, Oh,
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it was just like, dear baby Tomlinson,
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yet, but you're so loved.
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and this is all Carolyn that she did
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all of her recipes and we all got a
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really special way.
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out loud, what it comes down to
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value in your day to day life?
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with your memorabilia?
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from the people we love, cooking
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did to take care of all of us.
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good now that we don't have her.
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for me of instead of worrying
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I want to remember?
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books on the bookshelf, to me, if I
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seeing the art on the cover.
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childhood that's incorporated in there.
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I think, that can be done with this
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of where can it be incorporated?
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that artwork, invest in some really
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that up on the wall, really think about
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steps, if you do want to keep a cross
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learned this from a client of mine.
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folder boxes, but they're decorative.
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you put hanging files in them.
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this from my client.
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one will be seven through 12 or whatever.
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file for each year.
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in the drawer, go through it and then
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is going to end up in just these two
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everyone, and one of the principles
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do a little planning ahead of time, it
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I'm like, oh yeah, you put the
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have to think about it later on.
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a little bit of catch up.
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I was just throwing everything
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folders, I was like, Oh, those
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are you going to keep and how
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inside of a container that makes me happy.
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a way to keep that stuff.
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older and you ask your kids, do
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:Lacey: We are to the end of our
time, Sarah, but I really, I
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:Sara: Yes,
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:Lacey: of gratitude.
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:So I'm going to say, I am feeling
grateful for antidepressants and
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work with them to get what I need.
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:my shout out is to Macy's, not a sponsor,
but I wouldn't mind if they were.
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had a warranty on my bed.
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way, complimented me on how clean my
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how happy that made me.
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is look at mattresses.
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:Lacey: he knows.
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:Sara: and he knew right away that the
mattress had failed, he could see it.
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:It's coming next week it couldn't have
been, it couldn't have been easier.
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:Lacey: That's a great way to end.
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memorabilia, because there's a lot of
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Q and a form on no shame in the home
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and let's problem solve, because we
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:Lacey: yeah.
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