Do You Ever Hang On To Old Things, Even Though You Know It's Silly To?

yes-i still have a ratty old kliban cat quilt my dad had given me as a child.well,i shouldn't say ratty,i just put a new backing on it and everything.but needless to say,it's patched all over. but since my dad passed away,it's too sentimal for me to give up.

There are few things I just won't part with like, my grandmother quilts she made/quilted and gave to me; anything else she's given me like plates, glassware, etc. I am thirty some and I finally got rid of my security blanket, you know that one you get then you're two or three and it goes everywhere with you...well up until huricane Katrina I still had mine and then decided I would donate it because I have loads of blankets and those people certainly needed them more than I did, so finally it is gone (my hubby is so happy!) I also still have all my term papers from high school. I might throw them away after my boys graduate high school. and I guess I still have some little things tucked away in my little trunk from high school days. A better idea would be to take pictures of some of those things and scrapbook them (takes up less space that way). I need to clean out things as well, just hard to part with some of them, like you said.

The only thing I have kept and always will is things that my Children made for me when they where little and that is something I will never get rid of lol

Yes, I'm exactly the same as you, my friend. I hoard things to the extreme. I hate to throw things out... I always say to myself that this or that will come in useful someday, and it stays put. I take after my Dad, I think. He was a terrible hoarder. lol. Brightest Blessings. x

Unfortunately I tend to keep absolutely everything, to the extent that the house is full of *stuff* and despite my efforts to clear it all out, I can't help holding onto some things. For some strange reason I seem feel that bank statements from 2000 are important - LOL

hi pye-one thing i don't think that you should do is throw your college term papers away=my they are great and wow how intelligent are you i have always wanted to do egytology and be able to read hieroglyphics-your amazing! like you too i tend to hold onto things i really shouldn't and am this year being cruel to myself and getting rid of a lot of things including those i really would like to keep-books clothes, my guitar which i no longer play or need and a load of other things too your friend littleowl

I can see keeping them. Maybe you could post them in full or in part on some site (like Gather) I have seen some very good historical pieces on there.(as well as some silliness) I [/b]wish[b] that I had the poetry I wrote in high school and college. I think I would like it still. I do have some things that are hard to part with, like clothes that have memories, and little glass figurines, etc.

Im a huge pack rat. I have so much old stuff its crazy. I have saved just about everything my kids have done at school. I gotta get rid of some of this stuff as im running out of room lol. Or I could just get a bigger house hehehe.

I have a few things like that. Some papers i did in college are some as well. Some are twenty years old but I still have them. There are a few stuffed animals that I still have even though they are raggedy. One is a Fresca St. Bernard dog. It doesn't have the fresca can anymore but I still have the dog. It was my grandfather's so I hang on to it. The other is a teddy bear that I have repaired many times and it's been re-stuffed, but I have had it since I was 2, my great grandmother gave it to me. I also have a few books that even though I might not ever read them again I really enjoyed them as a child or a teen so I keep them for those memories.

I still have the papers from my three years in college between 1967 and 1969. I kept them because I thought I might need to read them again... but I never did. I did throw a lot of stuff out that I thought I would never need anymore. But you never know. In the nineties... I did throw out a whole box of magazines on Australian Motor Racing from the seventies. Last year I discovered that if I had them today... I could get $1000 for them on eBay. I have been kicking myself from one side of the house to the other. Without fail... everytime I throw something out... a couple of years later... or less... I wish I had not. I know some people who keep throwing things out... and keep going back to the shop to buy it again when they need it. That's OK if you have more money than sense.

It's not like I'm a packrat or anything, but I have tons of stuff that I've kept. Mostly sentimental things like any cards I've ever gotten for birthdays, Christmas, Anniversay, etc. Then there's the shoebox with love letters, another shoebox with rings and trinkets from boyfriends. I have both of my Grandmothers old jewelry boxes. Diaries starting from when I was about 9yrs old until the 90's. (Some of the stuff in there would probly make a good book, especialy the 70's and 80's!!)Concert ticket stubs and programs from concerts in 70's and 80's. Old school work my Dad kept and recently gave to me. Newspapers with important headlines. Some fashion magazines. You know what, now I'm thinking I need to go clean my closet. It's starting to sound like alot of stuff!!! #:)

yeah, i graduated more than a year ago.. and though most of my papers were lent out to my friends in other universities, and my flashdisk which carry their softcopy was lost, my room is still a big clutter.. even my readings from college are safely intact in my room... my notebooks are still there.. i even find it hard to throw sheets of papers with songs or poems even though i can easily find and reprint them from the net.. it seems like if i throw them away, i rob myself of one fine day decades from today happily scanning all these things and remind me of how it used to be...

I just got done cursing and swearing at myself for all the things I have that I just CANNOT PART WITH!!! I moved 99% of my things into my new house yesterday. (There is no adequate way to thank the generous people who provided the muscle power to unload that 26 foot U-Haul of mostly "Why am I keeping this" stuff.) As I was trying to pack up all this stuff I have ... GRRRRR!!! I have books, boxes and boxes of books (5500 to 6000 but who's counting???) I have three ring binders from my former job that I just could not let them throw out. They were all perfectly good and really sturdy because they are really, really old. They aren't the wimpy binders that are being made now. I have binders (not the binders I saved but wimpy purchased binders) of information I have printed off from the internet that I have as yet to read. (Hoping to do that while sitting on the veranda of my new house.) I have .... lots of old things that make absolutely no sense to keep. And I just can't let them go. So they all moved with me. Everything. The only things I could bring myself to dispose of were two glass dishes that were chipped and had the potential to cut someone. But it was tough to do. And I put 15 or so plastic water bottles (small cute green bottles) in the recycle bins. Almost went back to get them out because I could possibly need/use them some day in the far distant future. Especially the yellow caps. Yellow caps would be very valuable for making something stand out!!! And then there is the furniture from others that I could not refuse. The furniture is older and needs a good appreciative home. So of course I took it. And this is just the first load. I have more "in-need-of-a-home" furniture on its way from my sister in Saskatchewan. Bottom line is, I can't stand to throw away something that is useful, can potentially be useful, or that is no longer wanted where it was. Things I have to work on or I won't have much space in my house.

I have a plastic tub in my closet of things i absolutely treasure.cant get rid of. They range from old yearbooks, my school treasury book with all my class photos and awards in, some old baby clothes of mine, photos, old letters from the army saying my grandpa was missing in action in WW2, keychains and other souviners from trips. Its getting a bit full.

oh yes... i think i am the same like you... i still hold on to my old things like my stamp collections, my university papers and everything that has sentimental value for me... i just don't have the heart to throw them away and i don't think i want to throw them anyway...

I haven't hung onto much from my childhood. I have a stuffed Curious George that was given to me way back when I was round 4 or 5. My dad and I built a guitar for music class that I got an A+ on back in grade school that I'll always treasure. Still plays after all these years. I might replace the fishing string on it with real guitar strings someday. Course, I still have all my yearbooks as well. That's bout it.

I am not the only one then that hangs onto old college papers. like you mine were all really good grades too.I finally got my degree in my fifties and now I am eighty so am still holding onto those old papers. I also have a box with old valentines and mothers day cards and birthday cards I have recieved years ago and they were so pretty I could not throw them away. I think I am what is called a pack rat I even have a diploma from high school that was given in 1944 help this is so silly but I am really a pack rat.

Oh yes!! In fact I had some notes from my friends that we passed in high school 20 years ago, letters from ex-boyfriends, I had them all in an accordion file. My hubby knew about them, he didn't care. I just made myself throw them away about a year ago. I think we all hold on to stuff to help remind us of the past, no matter how important or silly those things that we hold onto are to us

yes I do but thats okay because I thing old things are a part of who we are.

I hold on to some things I don't need because they have sentimental value, and make me think of a person or time in my life that made me happy. I have a few ordinary items that belonged to my dad, as well as a very old and broken laptop computer that was his. For some reason I can't bear to throw it out, I guess because I still miss him and it reminds me of visiting him and playing games on it. He was the one who got me interested in computers when I was a kid, too.