While this book has some great ideas, it basically takes 40+ pages of repetitive information to get to the basics. This book is targeted more at those individuals who would like to have long discussions or memory sharing activities with family members. Text includes several discussion topics with specific questions on learning more about your family memories including topics that maybe you didn't think to ask about. Good for "generation sharing". If you just want to get some ideas on how to distribute items or how to "value" sentimental items, you will likely only take 10-15 minutes to browse the text.