One of My Best Finds from Sorting Mom's Things

I'm still in the thick of going through my Mom's things. I had everything in my childhood home sorted by my decluttering coach, Ally Cainta. It took 8 days to sweep through the house and categorize the items into boxes.

I've been going through each item in all the boxes and I've lost count how many I've gone through. The hardest to go through are the documents and Mom's bead collection. I always find something that's mine in her things. It's not surprising since I lived the longest in the house and I had left a lot of stuff there.

I had a collection of pins from the EDSA Revolution and I always wondered where they were. I found one today - I ♥️ Ninoy pin. I hope I find the others since it's memorable for me. I was 10 when the event unfolded.

I think I've gone through 60% of Mom's things. Majority of her things are craft materials. I'm organizing them by category and I realize now why she didn't really want to shop a lot at Spotlight - it's because her stash is 100x bigger than mine. Haha.

Part of her zippers -

Part of her thread collection (she barely used the ones I bought for her) -

I'll put everything together first and then figure out what to do with everything. I've only decided so far, to divide her angel collection across her grandchildren and great grandchildren. Let's see where it goes :)

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Sorting Box of Documents Isn't Fun

Sweetie brought back a box of documents from my childhood home. I figured it won't take long to sort. Boy, I was so wrong. We already finished watching Firefly but I wasn't done yet. I sorted 10 boxes yesterday in the same amount of time I did a box of documents.

I have been sorting my Mom's things for over a year now. It's a lot of work. I haven't been able to continuously sort because it requires a lot of energy. The dust also always affects me. 

Today's box was from the room of my parents. Most were legal documents, Mom's address books, and diplomas/certificates. It included my Dad's law school diploma, my kindergarten diploma, old passports and bank books and possibly my niece's footprints when she was a newborn (it didn't have a name). 

I already have several boxes of documents. Sweetie already shredded a lot of documents which I think are not needed anymore. I actually asked a lawyer about Dad's old cases and he said I can shred them already since the notary public should have submitted them already. Good. Now I just need to research what to do with old passports and bank books (plus a gazillion IDs!). 

I really hope it's the last box of documents. I have about 10 big boxes to go through this weekend. Half are craft stuff, so that should be fun to do. 

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