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re: How do you feel about tactile mementos of your past?
Posted on 11/10/17 at 10:58 am to lsunurse
Posted on 11/10/17 at 10:58 am to lsunurse
My wife was adopted in Honduras. Her birth mother gave her father pictures and letters so my wife could have a sense of who she was.
Her father remarried and the stepmother threw it all out.
Her father remarried and the stepmother threw it all out.
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Posted on 11/10/17 at 10:58 am to MorbidTheClown
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why would you throw out childhood memories?
the memories still exist
these are just tactile mementos representing them. it's stuff that i literally never look at
at the end of the day, it's still just stuff
Posted on 11/10/17 at 10:59 am to lsunurse
quote:he has the pic of blondie kissing him on the cheek
You might really regret that decision years from now....just saying.
Posted on 11/10/17 at 10:59 am to SlowFlowPro
Where did your mom move to? Please tell me all is well with her.
Posted on 11/10/17 at 10:59 am to SlowFlowPro
How much space could some yearbooks and pictures possibly be taking?
You should know by now what's "garbage" and what actually has value to you, sentimental or otherwise.
You should know by now what's "garbage" and what actually has value to you, sentimental or otherwise.
Posted on 11/10/17 at 11:00 am to cajunangelle
she moved to TX to live with my sister and the grandbaby
Posted on 11/10/17 at 11:01 am to SlowFlowPro
quote:Me Mentos?
How do you feel about tactile mementos of your past?
This post was edited on 11/10/17 at 11:02 am
Posted on 11/10/17 at 11:01 am to SlowFlowPro
make digital copies of the photos and toss em
Posted on 11/10/17 at 11:01 am to SlowFlowPro
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at the end of the day, it's still just stuff
Stuff that your loved ones may enjoy looking at after you are no longer on this earth.
Looking through old photos of my grandparents when they were younger was a great source of comfort to me after they both passed away 2 years apart. I was grateful to have a wonderful candid photo of them taken on their wedding day that I could display at my own wedding and still feel like they were a part of that day...even though they were forever gone.
Posted on 11/10/17 at 11:02 am to SlowFlowPro
On another note, "Tactile Mementos" would have been a great name for an emo band, circa 2003.
Posted on 11/10/17 at 11:02 am to SlowFlowPro
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at the end of the day, it's still just stuff
true.. but, i would imagine showing you tball pics to your son one day would be pretty cool.
like i said, i lost all of my shite in katrina. But sometimes conversations come up like, "what did your hair look like when you were in school?" if i had pics i could show them.
Posted on 11/10/17 at 11:04 am to SlowFlowPro
At least put some of it in a watertight container and bury it. Time capsules are neat.
Posted on 11/10/17 at 11:04 am to rocket31
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make digital copies of the photos and toss em
yeah photos are easy
shite like yearbooks are not
some things i truly don't get though. like my middle/high school awards or the cap from my high school graduation. these are meaningless to me
pretty sure my kids will know that i graduated from high school
Posted on 11/10/17 at 11:06 am to SlowFlowPro
Upon reading more of your attitude, I've changed my mind. I want you to throw everything away. Every picture, every trinket, every participation ribbon. The way you're apathetic to your own life's story would only bore the pants off of your kids.
This post was edited on 11/10/17 at 11:07 am
Posted on 11/10/17 at 11:07 am to SlowFlowPro
You are overthinking the shite out of this. 
Yes, try to keep photos and yearbooks in some form or fashion. Once they're gone, they're gone.
No, you don't have to keep your third place ribbon from the 7th grade Spanish fair.
Yes, try to keep photos and yearbooks in some form or fashion. Once they're gone, they're gone.
No, you don't have to keep your third place ribbon from the 7th grade Spanish fair.
Posted on 11/10/17 at 11:07 am to SlowFlowPro
Yeah but honestly...how much space can some yearbooks take up? Mine take up like 1/5 of a bottom shelf of a small bookshelf I have in my house.
I can understand maybe tossing out some of the other stuff (graduation caps, etc). But photos and yearbooks....seems like those are obvious keepers imo.
I can understand maybe tossing out some of the other stuff (graduation caps, etc). But photos and yearbooks....seems like those are obvious keepers imo.
Posted on 11/10/17 at 11:08 am to SlowFlowPro
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she moved to TX to live with my sister and the grandbaby
That's good. I suggest you save report cards and year books and photos all in one big box and ditch the rest. My kids loved looking through my yearbooks.
This post was edited on 11/10/17 at 11:10 am
Posted on 11/10/17 at 11:09 am to SlowFlowPro
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Posted on 11/10/17 at 11:09 am to SlowFlowPro
I guess I used to feel the same way but after losing everything from birth to high school graduation bc of Katrina I wish I had some shite. Not that I would look at it all the time but just to have it for when I get old and want to show the kids and what not.
Posted on 11/10/17 at 11:13 am to SlowFlowPro
I keep stuff like that because I love when I find pics of my deceased relatives as kids or living life before I knew them. Memories live through other in those tactile things.
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