Should I keep or should I throw now, part 3

So, we've spent a few weeks of clearing through stuff in our house in preparation for moving. (Yes, we have too much . . .) Our next abode is 50s/60s - no one seems quite sure - and our current house, an 1830s maison de maitre. A lot of the objects and furniture gleaned from vide greniers (car boot sales) and charity emporiums made up the decor of this grander house, and now . . . the 60s/70s kitchen, and weird 'hunting lodge' styled salon of the new place suggest new trips to be made to afore-mentioned places. Great!

We've donated several car loads of items to Emmaus - probably a lot of the stuff came from there - and I've enjoyed spotting the various familiar things on display there. It struck me that it's rather like a brocante library; you buy a Victoriana tea pot, use it and when it's started gathering dust from non-use, take it back and find something else to take its place, thus leaving someone else to enjoy such delights as our naff but wonderful Napoleon and Josephine coffee set, now in the 'best china' section of Emmaus. 

I even remember which Vide Grenier it came from - a very bucolic- scened one situated in a grassy meadow on the heights above Limoux, our old town about ten years ago.

Other items are more difficult to part with, such as this hessian 'gardening bag' that Ezra made at the age of about seven for my birthday. It's never been used for gardening (wasn't sure how to) and has rather been lost at the back of a cupboard, but . . . yes, I see a new future for it -a seed packet storage bag, hanging on the new houses's garage wall. Things that should be kept.