Unearthing:
As noted elsewhere, Mere is downsizing her Stuff; the toughest part was getting her to semi-methodically go through her books. As House Librarian, I was the one sitting down with her; she got rid of quite a few books, about 2/3ds picture books. In some cases (very few) I hung onto some stuff *I* wanted to keep around, like the Golden Book science stuff (which actually is a good basic handbook on this and that) and some stuff she hadn’t gotten into yet. I do know that practically all of the newer books I’ve gotten her went into the ‘I didn’t look at this yet so I have no attachment to it here it is Dad’ pile. I’ll hang onto them for right now, but she’s going to have a really hard time getting me to buy books for her on a whim (mine or hers) for quite a while.