My bedside table drawer is a time capsule from my childhood. There's stuff there like school ID from elementary school, medals from middle school judo tournaments or ribbons with goodbye messages from high school classmates (who I haven't seen ever since, a very long time ago). It's only a drawer, it's not like this stuff is taking up much space, and it's interesting to hold on to.
Anyone else do this? What are some things you are forever attached to?
Only some stereotypical relationship stuff for me. I'm really sentimental over that stuff. Birthday cards, even ribbons from the presents, Post-Its, ticket stubs. For everything else, I've fortunately been able to remain more discerning.
Can't seem to let go of small items like pencil stubs and erasers from childhood, and other small seemingly insignificant things.
If you need to get rid of some of that, I read that taking a picture of the thing first can help make it easier to dispose of. I tried it out and, yeah, it kind of did help. But those specific items sound small, and if they're from childhood I'd probably hold onto them too.
As a car/mechanically minded/amateur blacksmith/work-with-my-hands kinda guy I won't mention things like what my wife refers to as my random hardware that I keep for whatever use it may have in the future. Spare nuts, bolts, brackets, etc. from whatever project or product I was working on or took apart. As those are more usable things that'll come in handy at some point.
In my fireproof safe I have every little note my wife has hid/left for me over the years, from notes in my lunch back when I went to an office to the notes hidden around the house that we leave for the other to find.
There's a tiny, ceramic mug I got from a coin machine when I was maybe four or five years old. There's nothing special about it, it just stayed with me and at some point I decided welp, guess you're along till I'm done, so I've kept it.
I kept a ring I was given by a woman I nearly married. It's not an engagement ring/was never meant as one, it was just a random gift and hardly anyone has given me jewelry before, so I kept it.
A coworker gave me a tiny statue of a Mayan temple, that he got in Guatemala. I don't really know why he gave me that, but it looks nice, so I've kept it on my desk.
A shareware copy of Quake. It was my dad's, and somehow it just wound up within my stuff, so I kept it and keep it on my desk (it's the nice little foldable booklet, with info about the game, like honestly the nicest shareware package I've ever seen).
A tiny, pink cowboy hat. Someone put it on my dog, but I don't know who - my dog just ran up to me one day at the dog park with a tiny, pink hat on her head.
Through necessity and my own personality, I don't own too much stuff compared to other folks, but I do have some I keep for nostalgic or sentimental reasons: A couple old CD jewel cases for computer games I really liked. A few pop science books my dad was reading before he past away with his bookmark still in them.
The business card of my favorite professor. I had done something well in front of class, and he wrote a note about extra credit points and told me to cash it in at the end of the semester. I ended up keeping it instead :)
He was an amazing professor. He had a reputation as a hard ass, but all of those trials thrown at us were genuinely for our benefit, and he sincerely wanted to see us succeed.
I have a copy of The Gingerbread Man book that I got for having the neatest printing in Grade 1 from my teacher, Mrs. Lane. That was 56 years ago!
She must have had an influence as I went on to excel in graphic arts and became a magazine publisher for a few years.
I hold on to every fortune I get out of fortune cookies. Even though it's a bunch of fucking nonsense, I like to think it brings me luck.
I still have casings from the first gun and semi-automatic rifle I ever fired when I was 10. I always thought they were cool.
My bedside table drawer is a time capsule from my childhood. There's stuff there like school ID from elementary school, medals from middle school judo tournaments or ribbons with goodbye messages from high school classmates (who I haven't seen ever since, a very long time ago). It's only a drawer, it's not like this stuff is taking up much space, and it's interesting to hold on to.
Only some stereotypical relationship stuff for me. I'm really sentimental over that stuff. Birthday cards, even ribbons from the presents, Post-Its, ticket stubs. For everything else, I've fortunately been able to remain more discerning.
If you need to get rid of some of that, I read that taking a picture of the thing first can help make it easier to dispose of. I tried it out and, yeah, it kind of did help. But those specific items sound small, and if they're from childhood I'd probably hold onto them too.
As a car/mechanically minded/amateur blacksmith/work-with-my-hands kinda guy I won't mention things like what my wife refers to as my random hardware that I keep for whatever use it may have in the future. Spare nuts, bolts, brackets, etc. from whatever project or product I was working on or took apart. As those are more usable things that'll come in handy at some point.
In my fireproof safe I have every little note my wife has hid/left for me over the years, from notes in my lunch back when I went to an office to the notes hidden around the house that we leave for the other to find.
I have a bunch of little things.
There's a tiny, ceramic mug I got from a coin machine when I was maybe four or five years old. There's nothing special about it, it just stayed with me and at some point I decided welp, guess you're along till I'm done, so I've kept it.
I kept a ring I was given by a woman I nearly married. It's not an engagement ring/was never meant as one, it was just a random gift and hardly anyone has given me jewelry before, so I kept it.
A coworker gave me a tiny statue of a Mayan temple, that he got in Guatemala. I don't really know why he gave me that, but it looks nice, so I've kept it on my desk.
A shareware copy of Quake. It was my dad's, and somehow it just wound up within my stuff, so I kept it and keep it on my desk (it's the nice little foldable booklet, with info about the game, like honestly the nicest shareware package I've ever seen).
A tiny, pink cowboy hat. Someone put it on my dog, but I don't know who - my dog just ran up to me one day at the dog park with a tiny, pink hat on her head.
Through necessity and my own personality, I don't own too much stuff compared to other folks, but I do have some I keep for nostalgic or sentimental reasons: A couple old CD jewel cases for computer games I really liked. A few pop science books my dad was reading before he past away with his bookmark still in them.
The business card of my favorite professor. I had done something well in front of class, and he wrote a note about extra credit points and told me to cash it in at the end of the semester. I ended up keeping it instead :)
He was an amazing professor. He had a reputation as a hard ass, but all of those trials thrown at us were genuinely for our benefit, and he sincerely wanted to see us succeed.
I have a copy of The Gingerbread Man book that I got for having the neatest printing in Grade 1 from my teacher, Mrs. Lane. That was 56 years ago!
She must have had an influence as I went on to excel in graphic arts and became a magazine publisher for a few years.