Illustration: Simon Letch.  Illustration: Simon Letch.  Is there
a statute of limitations on all the stuff left in the family
home once the children become adults? How long does it need to
sit there, unclaimed, before it can be thrown out with a clear
conscience? Many parents complain about running a hotel for
their grown-up children; I'm more concerned we have become a
branch of Kennards Self Storage.  There are presidential
libraries in the US that have less-detailed archives. Certainly,
the defeat of the Burwood Titans by the Leichhardt Saints in the
winter of 1998 was a moment of soccer history that will live on
in the minds of those present but do we really need three copies
of the newsletter recording Batboy's heroic save just before the
half-time whistle? Not to mention the soccer jersey in which the
game was played?  And while I look forward to having
grandchildren, is it really worth hanging on to three boxes of
apple juice-stained Little Golden Books, many of which appear to
have been chewed either