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Do you save things from your childhood?
I have never really been one to hang on to things. Yesterday we finally went through several bins of things the IL's gave us from H's childhood. At first I wanted to throw it all out...then I thought that it might be cool to hang on to so that once we have kids they could see my H's old track letters, trophies, and things. My IL's save EVERYTHING so H has inherited some of this behavior. What do you guys hang on to?
Re: Do you save things from your childhood?
I have an entire bin full of stuff from when I was a baby through college. Things like my baby book, the outfit I came home from the hospital in, various school projects that my mom deemed worth saving over the years, and articles/medals/awards from my athletic successes in high school/college.
We have some stuff of MH's (well, his parents still have it), but I definitely plan on saving everything. I'd love to show our kids some day.
My mom kept several boxes from childhood and gave them to me awhile back, some of it I threw out but there's a lot I kept (I'm an emotional pack rat though!). H has even more, he's an only child so there's a bunch of stuff from his childhood, thankfully its still in his mom's basement.
This isn't exactly childhood related... but H also has inherited a lot by virtue of being an only child, and on his dad's side he only has 3 cousins, when we settle into a bigger place there's some antique furniture that we'll receive from his dad and a china set that will have been in the family for 5 generations.
I'm an only child too so my parents have saved a lot of things from my childhood. Mostly academic acheivements and fun projects from elementary school. I also have a binder of programs and awards from playing in band throughout high school.
My H and his siblings each had a keeper box that his parents kept at their house. Unfortunately, 2 years ago, their house burned down so all of those items were lost. They did manage to save the scrapbooks that my MIL made that chronicles H's life from birth to college, though. And, surprisingly, each of their baby shoes were salvaged.
I have a few things- my mom set aside a few stuffed animals (not many, but the 3 I have that my grandmother made for me and a cat that got me through a few years of nightmares in middle childhood). I have a baby book as well.
I also still have the blanket I came home from the hospital with. I slept with it for many years and want to use it for my own child.
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I meant to add that I also have all of my journals from HS. I started writing at the beginning of my junior year (that was the start of tough times) and wrote religiously through the end of senior year.
I don't think I'd let my daughter read them until she was all grown up though.
I've saved quite a bit, and it definitely borders on too much, but that's how my family is. We have a lot of things that belonged to family members up to 150 years ago, so when trunks of items worthy of being in a museum, I can totally justify saving my things. My cousins and I also had a great time playing dress up with our parents' childhood clothes when we were younger, and because my mom saved all her good clothing from the 60s, I've worn quite a bit of over the past few years.
When I have to take my stuff from my parents' house (like when they move), I want to save my favorite toys and some clothing, and I'd really like to turn some of my clothing into a quilt. Anything that can be reused we'll keep and use, and I'd love to sell my less favorite toys if they're in good condition to collectors.
I have ALL my notebooks and papers and birthday cards and letters from high school and college at my parents' house, and I've finally started sorting through that stuff. The notebooks are going to go, and the cards/letters fit in a small box under the bed so they'll stay.
DH has a few of his favorite toys at his parents' house, but no clothing that I know of (except for a few little league things). He sold a lot of his Star Wars stuff to a local collector a couple years ago. Both of us have saved our entire Lego collections, which will be given to our children eventually. Old-school legos are so much better than the kits to make one specific thing they have now.