How would you feel if all your childhood pictures were burned?

hi sharra! well, in the first place, i would already feel bad if i found out that my old pictures were burned. because these are memories of the past. even my husband went looking for his old pictures, especially his graduation pictures, when his mom only gave me his baby pictures. anyway, i would feel even worse if i would learn that it was my own mother who burned them and that of the rest of the family's. but why would she do that? i really wonder. what made her do it? you didn't tell us, but she must have had a pretty heavy reason to do that. i hope it is not because she is not just sentimental. take care and God bless you!

I'm sorry to hear about your pictures. I cherish the pictures taken when I was a baby all the way until I was around 10 or eleven. After that, hmmm... different story. Anyway, should I find out that all my baby pictures got burned, I'll be really bummed. I probably would not be able to sleep in days thinking of the memories that I need to save in my head so that I won't forget them forever. If you have cousins or playmates you're still in touch with, borrow their pictures which include you in the shot and have them scanned. Good luck.

Actually I have few childhood picture. But I am not very much attached to them. as they are lying in an envelope just like that. But it will be very sad if they are burned.

I'm so sorry, I bet you are really sad. I don't know if it would really bother me too much. I didn't really have a great childhood and so there's not much that I would want to remember.

ohhh... that would be so frustrating and sad... i just hope there would be other pictures that were misplaced and were not burned...

That is really shocking!All burnt by your own mother!Why did she did it?Oh!It is very bad,you had a collection and all lost!I know,it is mind blowing.Please don't get upset.Because we can't undone what is done.Hope you start collecting more photos in the upcoming days and produce an album to show to your kids.That way,seeing your kids rejoicing,you can live your memories.Cheers!

Actually I would really get mad if my childhood picture will be burned. Actually it happen also to me when my son get my album and he get my pictures when I was a child. My son is only two years old but I got angry because he throws them. My pictures are special because I can recall how do I look when I was just young.

That's awful! I'd feel absolutely devastated! My mom has all of the family photos from when I was a baby, up until I graduated high school. I don't even have one picture of the family or myself during (or even before) this time frame. I've actually been meaning to ask her to send some to me so I can scan them and save them in my online albums. But I'm kind of worried to ask, in fear that she had them destroyed. The only way to find out though is to ask. I just have to get the courage to do so.

We are in the same boat. I don't have a single childhood pic of mine. But my Mom did not burn them. They got lost when we shifted house. :) Sad, but I guess there is nothing much we can do about it. Cheers and happy mylotting

horrible, I really could not think what I feel if all my photos are burnt

I'm really sorry to hear that. That's something that my grandmother did to my dad. She burned all of his pictures. With maybe one or two exceptions. I'd feel really sad, if my parents burned my childhood pictures.

What a pity!! How coudl she burn all the pictures? It is not fair at all. you never burn pictures uneless the house cought fire accidentally and they got burnt by mistake. how can anyone burn all photographs specially family photorgrphs and that too of your own children? I hold all photographs too close to my heart. Each photograph has memories attached to it. Those days can't returnbut atleast yo can re-live the memories through the photographs. What a shame all your memories are all gone! I can understand how you feel. Nothign in the world can bring them back.

im sorry to hear that...pictures are so precious to me i love to keep them and scanned it sometimes im glad to see them...

That is so sad... I can't imagine not being able to see pictures of me as a child. To be honest with you when I was 5 we had a fire in our house, and most of our pictures were burned, but we managed to save a few. After that my parents taped everything we did. Thankfully in this day and age we can save all our pictures online and not have to worry about them getting destroyed.

Well; I would feel quite anguished to see my childhood pictures burned . It wonders why this step was taken .Still;there must be some strong reason for your mother to do so .

My goodness, I don't understand why your mother did that? Those childhood photos should have been treasured and kept neatly in a photo album which you can scan over and over again as you wish to remind you of the good old days! How could your mother missed the importance of keeping memories through photos? I'm saddened to hear that! I've been keeping my childhood photos which are actually in black and white in an album. Some of them are really faded but just the same I'm keeping them and am so happy everytime I look over them. I'm did the same for my only son. All his childhood photos were neatly placed in albums and we do always laugh every time we gather together and scan those old photos over again.

That is so unfortunate, sharra. I can only assume why your mother burned the family pictures. I still have a few family and childhood pictures. Although I've had albums gone worthless and useless as our house was flooded once. I do hope you find out later that you still have some of them. Take care, sharra.

I know how it feels. My family has lots of photos taken together when we were kids but then it was all gone even our legal records like birth certificates and other things when our house was flooded, we lost everything and we have to start over again. And that's why I don't have a photos when I was a kid that were saved. Now, I only have photos taken when I am an adult. Did you ask your mom why did she burn of those photos?

Why would your mother do something like that? I know we should remove clutter in the house but the need to burn your family pictures especially of your kids growing up just escapes me. I underand that you must feel sad to not see those precious pictures of your childhood. I would feel awful if my mom did the same thing.

oh lord so worry about you how to be there and your mobile device havn`t , too !?