Wrecker Posted January 25, 2016 Share Posted January 25, 2016 I still have directIons that I wrote to tell me where my grandpa was in the hospital in my wallet. I can't drive myself to get rid of them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlynnCoyote Posted January 25, 2016 Share Posted January 25, 2016 I have an old magnifying glass that was my grandma's. It's on my desk. I don't even remember putting it here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GamingGal Posted January 25, 2016 Share Posted January 25, 2016 I keep all old movie ticket stubs in a tiny box, even the ones that are so faded I can barely read them. I also keep every card I get for the holidays/my birthday/etc along with the card envelope. I have a rather large stack, but it feels rude to get rid of them. I also have a pretty big shoebox of all the notes I ever got in high school, ranging from my first girlfriend to my friends to my best friend who I literally have 50+ notes from. Basically if it's something written, I probably keep it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clove Darkwave Posted January 25, 2016 Share Posted January 25, 2016 I keep a lot of sentimental junk that are small, easily hidden scraps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caledonian Posted January 25, 2016 Share Posted January 25, 2016 All. The. Drawings. I. Made. In. The. Past. Few. Years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Endless/Nameless Posted January 25, 2016 Share Posted January 25, 2016 I tend to keep those little plastic ID bracelets from major doctor visits. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vaer Posted January 25, 2016 Share Posted January 25, 2016 Pencils, notebooks, and papers. Also a bunch of assorted stationary. I also keep jars and boxes for some weird reason. I have a thing for containers. Gum and Starburst candy wrappers. I like making chain links out of them and forming necklaces and bracelets. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.Kumquat Posted January 25, 2016 Share Posted January 25, 2016 I have kept all the boarding pass stubs Iv'e acquired since 2006. That's the year i joined the military, and includes all the times I've visited my family in the past 10 years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 25, 2016 Share Posted January 25, 2016 I keep diaries, birthday cards... And some literal junk I found lying around, like this bycicle key pendant that's been flattened because a car drove on it. Found it in my school's parking lot and chose to hold onto it for some reason. I also found an electronic organizer in my old uncle's room's trash can. Don't ask me what I was doing digging my hands in a trash can because I don't know. Was a kid. Anyway, the thing seemed super technological and cool for my old impressionable self (even though it was from the 90s and couldn't do more than write very short notes on it) so I kept it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kinare Posted January 26, 2016 Share Posted January 26, 2016 I still have a lot of the cards I've gotten for various holidays in all sorts of random places. It's not so much that I feel bad throwing them out (most of them), but by the time I feel comfortable throwing them out I don't care to go digging around for them. There's not so many that there's a problem anyhow. I also have all of my old drawings that haven't been ruined. I haven't drawn much at all the last few years, so nearly all my drawings are quite old. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luca Posted January 26, 2016 Share Posted January 26, 2016 Ticket stubs for pretty much every movie I've gone to since 08 and bottles of fancy alcohol I finish. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PastryOfApathy Posted January 26, 2016 Share Posted January 26, 2016 I have a couple things I keep for special "personal" reasons. Nothing super interesting though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Revates Posted January 26, 2016 Share Posted January 26, 2016 I keep the stuff I find while running and bush walking, they always feel special to me. I've found some rail road spikes, some old bottles and other junk like that. I also have some stuff my grandmother made me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PheagleAdler Posted January 26, 2016 Share Posted January 26, 2016 (edited) Old receipts dating back to 2003, I don't know why I keep em, but I still do have the products I purchased with them. Not like the store would ever take em back though... I don't keep receipts from restaurants or gas stations, or for most consumables, but I have kept most receipts from my trips to furry conventions. I have a few useless things in my junk box, like a knob from the heater in my mother's house, keys I have no idea what lock they belong to, and those cute little 'good luck' pressed dollar coins. I keep all my old hotel key cards from the conventions as well, and what I have left of airline ticket stubs, as well as a ticket from a Mets/Phillies game before they tore down Shea Stadium in 2008. I have papers dating from 6th grade from my schooling years, I can't bring myself to get rid of em, I have about a whole drawer-full from 6th through my 4 1/2-5 years of college. Edited January 26, 2016 by PheagleAdler addendum 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrGravitas Posted January 26, 2016 Share Posted January 26, 2016 Why can't I bring myself to toss out old, outdated textbooks? The world may never know... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catilda Lily Posted January 26, 2016 Share Posted January 26, 2016 I have a lot of notebooks from my school years. I think I keep them because there are some doodles on the pages that I like, but don't want to rip out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
funky3000 Posted January 26, 2016 Share Posted January 26, 2016 I'm less of a hoarder of physical items. Rather I'm a bit of a data hoarder. "I probably need this 3 year old version of Minecraft sometime" "these ancient cringe pictures are never going to leave me" "definitely need to keep that video I downloaded for a friend 5 years ago" Then one day after being in college for a few weeks I sucked it up and went through my desktop, My Pictures, My Videos, and My Downloads, and deleted several items. After everything was totalled, and I think this included individual items inside folders and .jars/zips, but regardless. 25,000 items removed from recycle bin. 150GB freed. In the end, I ended up erasing half my hard drive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonMKV Posted January 29, 2016 Share Posted January 29, 2016 So much computer junk... I have boxes and boxes of different sized floppy disks, floppy drives, tiny outdated ram chips, old pc that are missing parts that aren't even made to be that backwards compatable anymore, and other equally useless things Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phyllostachys Posted January 29, 2016 Share Posted January 29, 2016 I still have a box of school related stuffs such as pieces of trinkets I made during art classes, photos from school Halloween events, some text books, and graded exam papers from my three and a half years of attendance at Shanghai American School more than a decade ago. I guess I can't throw them away because that three and a half years of stay in Shanghai was one of my happiest periods in my life. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newt Posted January 29, 2016 Share Posted January 29, 2016 Birthday (etc.) cards and college exams. I don't even know why I keep the exams. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snagged Posted January 29, 2016 Share Posted January 29, 2016 So many cord extensions, old rechargers, magazines I won't be reading again and a few pieces of my old artwork and games Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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