If my parents had done that I would have been pissed.

They just recently cleared out the attic and unloaded my childhood stuff on me, and I gladly took it all back.

> Are you sure they even will want it back? Might be better to just donate it all now and save the money.

At 20-something after college, no, they probably don't want it.

When they are 40 or 50, they will desperately want it back.

> Are you sure they even will want it back?

75 y/o MIL is still fighting my wife to take her middle/highschool 'stuff' back to this day. She won't throw it out though.

Probably not - but it isn't his decision, and the kids are not yet in a place in life where they can make the decision.

Until the kids figure out where their life will take them they can't know. I have some heirlooms that I'm really glad to have now, but when I was in college living in dorms I wouldn't have had space for them.

You have no clue what somebody else finds important and will throw the wrong things.

I definitely would have.

I'd understand if they really needed to get rid of it, but the conversation must be had!