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

I had some short stories I wrote in high school that I threw out and wish I had kept. Doubt if the term paper material would be of interest at Gather though and way too long.....all my term papers were about 20 pages long...sheesh, even then I wrote a lot

I know I'm exactly like that at times..I keep things with the "you never know..could use it someday" attitude..LOL

Sorry, by the way... I didn't ever get back to you on your last e-mail to me. How is that all panning out, with the foot problems?

Just did a quick email to you about this

Strange... an hour later, I don't have it in my in box.

Wow you still have diaries from so far back? Funny, even though I'm bit of a writer I never kept diaries until fairly recently, but yes I've kept them as well...my "story" might be a good book to write as well and those "journals" might come in handy. Oh, yup..I have a number of old tickets stubs, programs and playbills from concerts, plays and so forth too

I think that's why we all tend to keep things as it is a part of our past and maybe days when we were a little more carefree??? Sort of a nostalgia thing??

yeah.. but my parents said that my room is like a wasteland.. i wonde why.. i also have their an antique bench which has this great carvings on it.. my dad said that it was older than he was but it's beautifully preserved.. i don't want to throw it away.. i use it as shelf for my books and notebooks.. haha..

I wouldn't want to throw out an antique bench like that either...sounds almost like an heirloom not to be thrown out

yeah, i agree.. but my mom doesn't like it, she says it brings bad luck.. haha.. just one of those superstitious things.. anyway, i like it and i'm not throwing it away.. it's made of Narra tree (i don't know if you heard of it) and no one manufactures with that anymore since it's kind of rare nowadays...

Yikes..don't get on with books...I still have some of my college books..they're mainly science books too..so outdated as far as info, but I still cling onto them

Just I'm a pack rat a bit myself...yes, mainly keep things for sentimental reasons

I'm laughing hysterically about your wanting things to have a "home"--oh boy can I identify with that! I used to keep broken things like figurines, and tried to repair them, but some were so broken it was beyond repair, so yes, would sadly depart with it
I'm sometimes the same way with new things to in that they need a "home"--I'm a softy sometimes for stuffed toys in my local Walgreens...sometimes one stuffed toy looks so "sad" especially if it's all by itself and just kind of sitting there neglected that I can't resist and buy it "cause it needs a home"..am I daft or what?

Ok, I'll admit, I am not embarrassed. I am glad that you are laughing though. Better you laugh then tell me I am crazy. (lol)

Oh, let's not go there on the stuffed animal thing. I have that exact problem. Worse too though. My daughter and I will go shopping after the holidays. Gosh darn if we don't come home with a herd of stuffed animals that didn't get bought and need a home. She has so many stuffed animals and she used to sleep with them ALL on her single bed. There was no way she was going to let ANY of them sleep on the floor. We had to go out and buy her a bunk bed so that she had room on her bed to sleep and the stuffed animals all had a bed to themselves. That was about 2 years ago. Would you bellieve the stuffed animals have almost outgrown their bed. Not sure what our next step will be.

Yikes your daughter sounds like the way my mother was...hehe...she was a REAL stuffed toy fanatic and there was hardly space on her bed for all the stuffed toys so she often had some on the sofa as well--I have a few on my bed now...not that many though..most of my bed space is taken up by my two live furbabies when I sleep at night
...oh, and as far as "saving" a toy and giving it a home...One time in my local Walgreens there was this cute stuffed rabbit...it was actually a dog's toy! didn't know they had toys like that for dogs...well every time I went into Walgreens that bunny would be somewhere else all alone ...sniffle, sniffle..like maybe a kid picked it up and maybe mommny said no, couldn't have it so just left it...then another day it'd be somewhere else, next day another place...finally I broke down and bought it myself...now that bunny is my little mascot that I have next to me near my computer..am I weird or what?

Nah, not weird. If I said you were weird then I would be saying that my daughter and I are also weird. You have a caring heart, even for things that are stuffed. And besides, look at me, I was the one that bought a bed for stuffed animals. My next step is going to be having to have a separate room just for them.

That's funny you mentioned a stuffed toy..I still have my very first stuffed toy when I was about three years old..a stuff female kangaroo with a pouch for it's baby...it is so worn out it's not funny but just can't bring myself to throw it out

I think I will always have the teddy bear. Yeah he might look worn and all but he is too much a part of my life. I won't ever give him up. He sits on a shelf and has a few other stuffed animals to keep him company. I think we are allowed to keep a few memories of our childhood with us, no matter how they might look or how old we become.

Whew...I just started tackling the storage containers in my bedroom today..yikes can't believe all the old papers there, and catalogs from about eight years ago..trashed them...like why am I keeping them?...there's so much more to do, but if I had continued with those containers I'd be at it until 2 in the morning! But I had some old knick knacks in the containers too. and nope..couldn't bring myself to part with them

I think the reason I cling onto all my old college papers is cause my college years were one of the happiest years of my life--was really carefree then...