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I’m busy trying to declutter my house and streamline my life a bit. Some things are just hard to get rid of. My father died in 2003, and I’ve got some of his papers. When Dad retired, he wrote a sci-fi novel. He wrote it mostly to entertain himself, and never thought of trying to get it published. It’s not terrible, but it’s not great either. I feel guilty getting rid of it, but see no reason to keep it. Anyone have any advice for how to respectfully get rid of something like this, and feel okay about it? Anything I keep will someday be someone else’s problem to deal with, so in a way it feels more respectful to dispose of things like Dad’s novel myself, rather than a friend or executor dealing with it in an impersonal way.