It makes me want to cry. My mom died 4 years ago and we still haven’t located and gone through all her stashes.
I’m afraid so many of mom’s important family papers are lost forever in her move from her home to her apartment. I wasn’t there when they moved her, but she’ll still tell me my one SIL took a lot of things without asking. Later the same SIL said if mom wanted anything back, she had only to ask.Mom on the other hand says, “why do I have to ask for my own things???” Mom is very sentimental and I’m sure a lot of small things were taken as keep sakes, however mom would have enjoyed them in her own apartment and even down here.
I did find some of the letters from my uncle who was killed D-Day to my dad.