Does One Really Give Up Baby Blankets?

It's about 20 minutes past 11:00 p.m. and I'm sitting in "the" room. I'm in the 3rd bedroom which now has no bed and no sleeping child. This is the room I have spent so many hours in for the past six years. This is the room I have spent most of the day in trying to clear out and go through all the toys, clothes, books and various other things that are in here for an upcoming garage sale. I got through most of the room but stopped short of finishing. The closet that is left holds the baby blankets. Giving up all the little baby clothes and baby toys was hard enough today but does one really give up their child's baby blankets? Really? No, I don't use them anymore but, still. I have given up a few over the years but still have many blankets I can't seem to part with. I don't consider myself a hoarder, I'm actually quite good at purging when I set my mind to it. I don't like lots of extra stuff and am always trying to get rid of things. Many of these blankets still serve a purpose and some have now become baby doll blankets but there are those that swaddled my newborn babies as I rocked them, nursed them and sang to them in this room, in the chair I sit in now in the room that is empty of children. If my babies are going to grow up and I am going to have to part with so many things they no longer want or use I think it's only fair that I hold on to that part of their babyhood that held them so close and kept them warm. Now that they don't need me in the same way they did as a newborn I feel the need to cling to the tangible things that remind me of a time when I was all they needed.

I'm updating this post a few days later...here is the blanket closet. Still too many but they are folded and organized at least.

Here are the few I got rid of. I hated to part with these but I don't hold any sentimental feeling towards the hospital ones (that I shouldn't have taken). One is an old one that was handed down to me that I used to put over the rocking chair. One I made (the fleece one) and it wasn't an anomaly of my sewing skills so it's uneven and the other one I can't remember where I got and I never used. Progress, not much but a little.