AIBU - baffled by things given to us by in-laws when they downsized!!

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Hi there
Feel a bit baffled by things given to us by in-laws when they downsized.
My lovely in-laws have very recently downsized and needed to get rid of a lot of stuff they have kept over the last 30 years. As two people who are 'definitely not hoarders' (!!), they kept an awful lot of crap.
Some of the items they have given to my husband and I:

• The cards they were given 45 years ago to congratulate THEM on my husband's birth.
• All the invoices and receipts for the bills paid for my husband's private school fees.
• My husband's photos from his first year of life.

I get they don't have room for these anymore - surely the first two items should be chucked. Husband is feeling unloved having been given the third item!! Is this not a bit strange?? Anyone else been gifted some weird items their in-laws can't face chucking so have passed on to you instead?!

I think that's the bit I find weird - I wouldn't give my kids their baby pictures - they'll want to look at them but they are my memories

My parents are obsessed with death cleaning and do this, I just have a quick look then bin it all. I tell them that's what I'll do but they insist on bring me bags of stuff.

My partner does the same.

I know of elderly people who’ve return old photos, I just assumed they were prepping for death.

BF dad's seems to do clearing out since his wife passed and it's all ending up at ours and BF wants to keep it all. The landslide of broken toys and 60 year old pens that entered my house are horrendous.
At one point BF insisted on keeping an old bread bag because it was of his dad's.

I have now cleared out most of my stuff (who needs understandable introductions to quantum chemistry if you can keep creepy dolls with no arms, mould ridden books, cars without wheels, and so on instead), only kept receipts for my foreign pension, birth certificates, tax things and documents regarding my inheritance.

My parents don't have any photos of my first year. I would love if they did and decided to give them to me!
That they have kept them for 45 years is testament of their love for your DH. Did you expect them to get rid of them?

They haven't given us any stuff like that but they have given us stuff that they should've binned years and years ago.

They brought round a cardboard box with stuff that used to be DH's (found in the loft) - no idea why they put it up in the loft in the first place - it had things like dried up paints and broken protractors in it. A quick glance would make it obvious that it all needed to be thrown away but no...much excitement and arrangements to bring it round are made.

Then they started bringing round his old toys for DS. Again stored in the loft for 30+ years...in open boxes. They gave DS a box of DH's old Lego that was completely filthy. Zero attempt had been made to clean it (they are house-proud, fit and young retired at this point - MIL stopped working when DH's older brother was born) and we were both working FT and knackered with young children. I found that really offensive and I wasn't grateful at all - I threw them all in the bin when they had gone in a rage (yes, I know it was wasteful but he had plenty of new, clean, Lego and I didn't need another job).