<p>MIL threw out DH’s baseball cards which were also in shoe boxes. DH still talks about it.</p>
<p>S1’s room still looks alot like he left it when he left for college almost 8 years ago (same furniture, same things on the walls), but without all the clutter. </p>
<p>S2’s room is still the same mess it’s always been. He’s the collector in the family (baseball cards, state quarters, Matchbox cars, etc) and every flat surface in his room is covered. He graduates college this year, so time for him to at least pack up some of his stuff so it’s not all over the place.</p>
<p>A lot of places won’t accept stuffed toys as donations because of allergy issues.</p>
<p>Said son’s former GF liked that he had stuffed animals in his room (and gave him several herself). At least he is not a gaming junkie and does not have pics of semi-nude women on his walls! 
Acollegestudent is right on the mark – if it matters to a young woman, she is not someone my S would be interested in dating. In any event, I doubt the beanie babies will be going to his first apartment. They’ll probably still be on his bookshelf when the grandchildren arrive. :)</p>
<p>shellfell, I still have to look for Legos and K’Nex on the floor when I vaccum in the guys’ rooms… 
S2 also has a state quarters collection (not from the drinking game, I will add).</p>
<p>While I was away at college in the fall my parents made the decision to put our house up for sale as my dad got a job transfer. My break didn’t line up in time for me to help make my room look less decluttered so my closet was the destination. Boxes and boxes of stuff (mostly books) and more stuff in drawers under my bed. I haven’t gone through my stuff since we last moved and that was when I was in 5th grade (about 9 years ago).</p>
<p>I am now taking a semester off, our house has been sold, and we move in 11 days. I must now go through all of my stuff with piles going to storage, my room in our new apartment, donation things, and a pitch pile. We are moving to an apartment so that my parents can sort of decide where they want to live.</p>
<p>My take of things as a college student is to at one point make your kid go through all your crap at one point before they move somewhere else. Because now I am sorting through essentially 19 years of stuff. At this point I have one storage container thing filled with selected things (things from Girl Scouts, winning the science fair (haha I still can’t believe that happened), and some high school stuff). I am trying really hard to condense stuff down. </p>
<p>I probably should’ve listened to mom when she tried to get me to clean out my closet before I left for my first semester in college.</p>
<p>Our “for sale” house went under contract this week. We will close before either S gets a chance to come home again. I’ve already de-shrined their rooms for real estate showings but will now have to pack up what I saved and find somewhere to put it when we move!</p>
<p>I have to tell those of you who are selling houses while your kids are in college that my mother put the house up for sale when I was in college. One of my jokester teachers wrote to me to say that he had never believed me when I said my mother did not like me, but he wanted to clue me in that he house was up for sale. Funny guy. She had told me the house was going up for sale.</p>