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I don't think this is universally true. Some people actually make an effort to sort the stuff of their grandparents in the attic and figure out what still has s

I don't think this is universally true. Some people actually make an effort to sort the stuff of their grandparents in the attic and figure out what still has some (emotional) value. But it's probably a minority of people.

lanstin 3y ago
It's the volume problem - I'm happy to read handwritten pages of my mom's diary from the 1960s, but the reams of laser printer out put from her master's degree in 2000s? Not so much.