how do you preserve an aggregate of family memorabilia...

[grasswire]

3. good insight

In this case the hoarding has happened because to the hoarder, scoring and keeping the items = some sort of power. The person is the oldest in the generation. Her children, boomers, have little interest in the items and do not often come to family gatherings. So I'm feeling pressure to get something done about this in the next several years. Lord only knows what would happen to the stuff.

The hoarder would NEVER allow anything out of her possession even for copying. She is very acquisitive and has the possessions of five other people hoarded in her home as well.

What I am doing at this point is trying to rouse concern in the other family members, gently. It will only be through group concern that anything will happen.

I'm trying to develop some sort of guidelines as to the future of the "archive" items. Where should they be? Should the namesake of the war heroes receive the medals? Or should everything be in one complete archive? It would require a small room. And in whose home?

Details, details.