The "What's the deal with this blog?" post

As some of you may know, I'm a pack rat. I'm probably almost to the point that it's a mental illness, although after seeing the stuff my mom saved over the years, I don't think I'm the worst pack rat ever.
At any rate, since I have been cleaning out Mom's house, I've been confronted with all of the junk I've saved over the last 30 years. While going through some boxes I pulled from the attic, I found a stash that seems largely to be made up of stuff saved from elementary school. I started to just trash or recycle most of it, telling myself that it really isn't worth keeping and nobody on eBay would want it either.
But then I started picking stuff up and thinking about why I kept it in the first place. Sometimes, I had no idea why I kept it, but usually, I could put a story together explaining the value I placed on it. Birthday cards, souvenirs from trips, art from school, assignments that particularly amused me, newspaper clippings... just random stuff, uncategorized, but I could still think of words that would accurately reflect why I had saved it (or at least, why I thought I saved it).
Since I was practically writing blog entries in my head as I looked at each item and tried to determine why it was in a box in my attic, it occurred to me that it might be fun to create a digital archive museum both for myself (so I could "keep" said useless item without taking up physical space in my house) and to share with any other hapless victim that might be amused by looking at a collection of junk accumulated by one person through the late 1970's to the 21st century.
Some of these will be kind of mundane, some of them will just be ludicrous. Some of them will cause me to start telling stories that really have nothing to do with the item, but might be amusing anyway.
Anyway, maybe people will read some of this and maybe not. Either way, I'm preserving some of my childhood.