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My mom dropped a load of clothes off last weekend. I'm now trying to remove the cedar chest smell and oxidized formula stains. Such pretty dresses, I can't wait for DD to wear them.

She has all my old dolls and a lot of our toys in her basement. DD is going to love going to play at grandma and grandpa's!!! Screw LeapPads and iPads!

Edit: DD will be wearing the dresses and playing the dolls, not DH--happy Monday!!!

My parents saved lots, although most of it was destroyed in their house fire 2 yrs ago. Why little I do have (some books and stuffed animals) was stored in the shed. Because we have so little, what we do have is all the more precious. One of the books that was saved was my second favourite book as a toddler, and I'd actually mourned it, until they gave it back to me for Christmas a yr ago.

I'm sure she has a few of our outfits but she kept one big toy set for each of us to give to our kids. So I got the old style little people, my brother duplos and my sister the fisher price doll house set

Not really, some clothes but that's it. Mom had 3 girls, so by the time the clothes went through #3, there wasn't much to save she said. My MIL has ALL of DH and his brother's toys, the kids love playing with them.

Yes, my mom saved quite a few things. I have my favorite books from childhood. Still at my mom's house are her favorite dolls from my childhood. She won't let go! LOL

Tons of books which my toddler has really enjoyed so far, brio, Legos, dolls, all kinds of stuff!

MIL has saved a bunch too, I just haven't seen any of it yet. Presumably, it will all come out of storage in the next couple of months. She has said that she wants us to use DH's little wooden bassinet. She's having a foam mattress custom made for it, so I'll plan to use it for the first several weeks, assuming it's comfortable for baby. He'll be swaddled, so I don't worry about him banging into the wooden sides at that age.

Yes....like my first bra (which she "gifted" to my husband, hilariously enough). She didn't, however, save my barbies and little ponies!!! WUT!!!!!!

I didn't realize that my mom might be a hoarder until I had LO. My baby shower was decorated with my old clothes on a line. My mom had her labor kit and my feeding/sleeping/pooping log for the first 6 weeks of life. So yeah, we have clothes and toys, and crib, and pack n play... and both my parents first baby shoes... and a bassinet my great aunt was in.

@Corduroy: I've known for years that my mom was a hoarder. I would have had similar problems to some other PP with needing to purge if they hadn't lost most things.

Here's a case in point: after I moved away from home, oh about 16 yrs ago, my mom went through a really sentimental stage where she redecorated my room with all of my kid stuff. They had a plumber by a couple of yrs later to work on something in the bathroom (which was next to my room). He asked my folks how old their little girl was, and was shocked to find I was in my twenties!

@daniellemybelle: Since you've been on the end of dealing with things not getting saved that you would have liked, any suggestions for not accidentally getting rid of something I shouldn't? I'm definitely more of a purger too, so it'll actually be hard for me to keep much at all. And yay Nashville.

Oh how I have mixed feelings about keeping childhood things!! :

I have been dealing with this a lot lately as my parents are cleaning out the house I grew up in to sale soon. Basically all the stuff my mom kept of mine over the years I am having to decide if I want to keep it or throw it away. Some things I am happy to keep and pass down to my daughter but a lot of stuff like old school projects, year books, art projects are just too much. I have no room to store anything, especially things I will probably only look at every 10 years or so but it is still sad having to throw away all these things from my childhood. It would have been easier for my mom just to do it as I grew up I think. My DH mom is bringing a bunch of his similar stuff with her every time she visits and it is just frustrating because we have no storage space for any of it and he isn't into purging as much as I am so it ends up just taking up space.

I think I will try and keep this in mind with my future kids.. try to only hang onto the really important stuff. Although I am getting the feeling that as a parent you think all your kids things are important enough to keep seeing how much stuff both our parents kept haha.

nothing and i haven't saved anything ever except for a onesie that olive wore shortly after she was born. it's a preemie size and so tiny!

Pretty much everything. And I have a boy!

My mom saved 2-3 of our favorite toys, but that's about it (oh, and my crib, which she was upset we didn't want to use....).

My MIL, on the other hand, has saved really random stuff including my husband's little plastic training POTTY!! I kid you not - she has been keeping it in storage for 30+ years. Because spending $10 on a new, clean one is too much?! ick.

@Mrs. Jump Rope: I *loved* bubble bobble!

@Mrs. Jump Rope: I was never that awesome. My friend had that game and i loved it! There was an iphone app but it wasn't as good.

She saved pretty much everything. My grandma is making A a quilt made of all of my baby clothes.