I am a bit of a pack rat. I have all the letters friends sent, the breakup letters of old boyfriends, the "I should have stayed" letters from others, pictures, cards...


what do you hang on to, whether you should or not?

i keep EVERYTHING ! its crazy, but, if you've given me ANYTHING in the past 20 years blues.. and you want to see it again, let me know, its around here somewhere

My looks.

Don't have anything of old gf's anymore. Only a few letters and pics from my ex wife. High school year book, that's all I guess.

I'm a pack rat myself...I have trouble throwing anything that might someday be considered a possible item of sentimental value. This is why I'm a slob.

I hate to throw anyhting away. I have a lot of letters, postcards etc.

It's funny, with email and the internet, I no longer have any letters to save! lol

bluesbaby said:

Emotions

2the9s said:

ya know whats funny, when my husband was sick, I printed all the support notes I got from folks online, including the org. made me feel stronger.

I also used to read all my mom's old letters and such...I want someone in the future to know about me, be it my stepsons, nieces, nephews.....

bluesbaby said:

That's why I loved that Postcard thread we did here!

Oh. I also keep mayonaisse from the past.

i keep everything (and by everything, i mean there's many boxes of old letters & such under my bed ) but stuff associated with bad ex-boyfriends. i tear up those pictures & letters and flush them down!

i also save my notebooks from when i was in junior high & high school, because they've got more poems and doodles in them than actual notes from class.

I've kept every book I'd read when I was little, letters from friends/booyfriends and tickets/get out of jail slips, a certain folder I had made in high school, etc.

I don't keep things anymore, well, it's rare that I do, unless it's something from my children, those items I collect. I do save quite a bit of their things that they enjoy now, favorite items of clothing, "firsts", notes, etc., and store them in cases for when they grow older.

OK, here goes, I still have my Lambie, a stuffed animal I clung to as a child. I cannot get rid of it. It is shapped like a real lamb, and I have had to "re-stuff" his neck several times in the past because that is where I used to carry it around.



If there is a fire, I will save my children first, but then I am going back in for him....

'what do you keep from your past?'

Secrets

I also keep all my old Org accounts.

I've kept all the letters, cards, cassette tapes, etc. I received from my wife since we first stared going out.

I have my old stuffed animals, but now they're in the kids' rooms.

i have old cards from a baby shower i had for my first son who is 10.

My darkest secrets..

- A picture of my dog, who died 14 years ago.
- Letters from who I consider my true love, even though we're not together anymore.

SomeoneElse said:

I reinvented myself in 1992, so nothing preceding that but my love or Prince's music.

REDFEATHERS said:

I don't get the joke.

SomeoneElse said:

now I'm 100% sure it's you

my semen.

This thread reminds me of that beautiful song of Ani DiFranco's, Soft Shoulder...

9sey said:

I was thinking of that song too....the only thing I keep is a few old letters.

sinisterpentatonic said:

gross :eww:

Sweeny79 said:

...letters littered with little lewd pictures
drawn by the ghost of woody guthrie
who would use your big thick hand
just to draw one two for me
and i think of your letters as love letters
which is how i think of songs
in that it is the writing of them
that tends to carry us along...