Sorting through our goodies is going to be TUFF!

Last week our treasure hunting and the sorting of goodies to keep when we downsize butted heads.  I have been very good about looking at things and saying to myself "I don't need that, I am going to be downsizing!!"  Then I found something very special that I have been looking for, for the past 5 years.

When Xavier was born we had the room to establish a Kids/Baby room with crib, rocking chair and all the toys and goodies a little one would want.  We did watch Xavy for a year a few days a week.  So duh, little guys need their space.  To this day, when the grandsons feet hit the floor at our house, they head to their room!  It has things we have found and memories that we have saved from their parents childhoold.  One of those items is a Fisher Price Cash Register.  All of our kids loved it and over the years the cash register is in great shape after 33 years. But, we had lost all the plastic coins that make it fun!

This week I found a cash register at one of the many thrift stores we hit,  and low and behold CU-CHING!!!!  I found one with plastic coins in it, and it was 99cents, not the $16.00 for the coins on Ebay!!!  You know I am cheap and couldn't choke that price down!!!

The boys have both spent their time playing with my find.  Even little Brockers only took a few minutes to figure out how to put the coins in, hit the keys and wind the crank for the change drawer!

Now when I found this treasure, I emailed my 3 kids and told them about my find.  I got back Awesome, Great and "Are you going to sell them?".  Yup even our kids know everything has a value!!!  That is when I realized, there are certain silly things I am going to have to keep.  I promised Todd that Yes, his children (which are still just a twinkle in their parents eyes) will have the chance to play with some of these wonderful memories!  So maybe I won't have a toy room, but I will have a rubber tub full of goodies for the next Grand Children to play with when they come to Grammies and Papa's! 

I am not looking forward to the process of sorting that will begin the first of the year!  Most of it will go, but I might have to put things away that I will sort through a few years down the road again!  Letting go is not one of my best talents!!  A good thing is I can take all my memories and photos with me!!  Now if I could just figure out how to rotate this!!  LOL