Should you return or not?
By kokopelli
@kokopelli (4842)
United States
20 responses
@courtlynne77 (4839)
• United States
26 Oct 06
Actually most old pictures I kept. The ones I burned were of a guy who cheated on me. Made me feel better!
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@mtdewgurl74 (18151)
• United States
26 Oct 06
well, it depends on how much you like something..If you like it ,keep it. If you were only keeping it because of your ex and not wanting to hurt the ex's feelings then get rid of it.Give it to the Goodwill or Salvation Army. And i would not throw out everything or all the pictures maybe give them to the ex or the ex's family.I hope this was helpful.And stranger things has happened but by the time you get rid of everything you'd make up and would have burned it all for nothing..
@ArsonCuff (3114)
• United States
26 Oct 06
depends what the gifts are...my ex kept the $500 digital camera and the wedding ring...and actually she kept it all...not that I wanted it back truly, I beleive a gift is a gift and I loved her and wanted her to have those things, but she could have offered so as not to look so materialistic
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@kokopelli (4842)
• United States
26 Oct 06
she knows the value, er, she values them, maybe that's why she just kept them :)
tnx 4d reply.
@jennie2665 (683)
• United States
30 Oct 06
I have gotten rid of most everything from my exhusband. The only things I have are from our wedding. The only reason I kept this stuff is for our daughters' sake. I figured if they wanted any of the pictures, flowers (silk), cake topper, etc. they could have it.
I still have the rings too and have thought about pawning them here recently (it has over 8 years since we split up.) I was going to keep them too, for the girls. I just don't think that they would want or need them though.
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@kokopelli (4842)
• United States
30 Oct 06
you reminded me, i tried selling my ex wedding ring but no one would buy it, LOL. i didn't want to just throw it coz i know its worth, so i pawned it just to get rid of it with returns :) and yes, some of the pictures (not of the wedding) i kept for my son's sake.
@maya_n_bennett (4687)
• United States
16 Oct 06
I still got the gifts I got from my ex boyfriend. He did spend few hundred dollars for the rings I got so I decided to keep it. I still got the pictures too because it got my friends in it. I dont really care for it so I probably get rid of it if I need more space for something else.
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@maddog108 (3435)
• Australia
15 Oct 06
why burn your memories if you dont want them give them back
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@2bugerboys (752)
• United States
15 Oct 06
Return it all, just put it in a box and drop it off.
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@juicemilk (2283)
• Australia
8 Nov 06
I think if it was given as a gift then it should be treated as a gift, and kept.
If there's an engagement ring involved however, then that shuld be given back, as it is given with the promise to marry
@kokopelli (4842)
• United States
9 Nov 06
hmm, i think that would depend on who broke the engagement.
@euniceeleanor (5967)
• Singapore
8 Nov 06
depending on how you guys end it. if he cheats on me, i will probably destroy everything to bits, then send it back to him. if we end it in good term, i will return everything to him in a nice way of course :)
@rmuxagirl (7548)
• United States
8 Nov 06
pictures and stuff I keep in a small box, if we had a special long relationship. If it was only a couple months then there aren't stuff to hold on to you know.
@AprilNicole1983 (564)
• United States
30 Oct 06
I personally have always thrown away/burned old pictures/letters of my ex's. I used to hold onto them when I was younger, but it brought back too many bad memories to look back on them. All of my long-term relationships ended badly, so I got rid of them.
@kokopelli (4842)
• United States
30 Oct 06
i think it's better that way. there's no sense in keeping things that just bring back bad memories and bad feelings.
tnx :)