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Too Sentimental ??
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BarbinSGlos | Report | 26 Jan 2013 14:03 |
I have a large box of greetings cards going back decades. I decided to go through them and throw most away. But I can't bring myself to part with them. |
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Leni | Report | 26 Jan 2013 14:10 |
No I am in he same boat as you. I have a draw under my bed and it is full of cards, some that were sent to me when I had my first baby and he is 52 yrs old now! |
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BarbinSGlos | Report | 26 Jan 2013 14:14 |
Glad I'm not alone then Leni |
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DazedConfused | Report | 26 Jan 2013 14:17 |
Although I do keep a few cards in the main I now throw them away |
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Carol 430181 | Report | 26 Jan 2013 14:20 |
Oh Barbara the times I have got my collection of cards and letters that I have collected over the years out. I sit and read through them, cannot bear to throw one away, so they all go back in the box, well ok boxes. |
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BarbinSGlos | Report | 26 Jan 2013 14:33 |
How fabulous PP to have the cards from your mums wedding. |
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Sheila | Report | 26 Jan 2013 14:33 |
I must be very unsentimental, I throw my cards away. The only one I have kept are the Sympathy ones and a Father's day card my daughter embroidered. However I do have decorations from several anniversary cakes. |
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Merlin | Report | 26 Jan 2013 14:35 |
I,ve got a "Shredder" works well and the remains make good kindling for the fire. :-D :-D |
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BarbinSGlos | Report | 26 Jan 2013 14:39 |
Oh no Merlin dont say that |
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♥†۩ Carol Paine ۩†♥ | Report | 26 Jan 2013 14:40 |
Lol I am not alone then, problem is my Mother did the same & I was the one left to clear her papers etc , I could not throw letters from her brothers during ww2, news paper cuttings relating to family or happenings in the village, I did give my sisters the cards/letters they had given her, but otherwise they have joined mine. I now have a cupboard full. |
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Merlin | Report | 26 Jan 2013 14:43 |
They,re only Cardboard Etc Barbs, Remembering the folk who sent them is better,especially toasting them with a glass of malt. :-D :-D ;-) |
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Karen in the desert | Report | 26 Jan 2013 14:45 |
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Carol 430181 | Report | 26 Jan 2013 14:48 |
All well and good Merlin, but what if they are letters or items that grandparents you never had the chance to know left, suppose it depends just how sentimental one is. |
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Merlin | Report | 26 Jan 2013 14:51 |
How sad that it sits on the floor,its got a lot of History with it no doubt,check it out and see if it has a "French Movement" and get it working and placed in a nice spot.you never know,you may come to like its comforting tick or sound of the chimes(If it hs them. :-D :-D :-D |
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BarbinSGlos | Report | 26 Jan 2013 14:53 |
How can one be expected to remember all the lovely things from family and friends from years ago. I open a card and it all comes back. |
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AnnCardiff | Report | 26 Jan 2013 15:16 |
have my retirement cards, my son's christening cards, 21st birthday keys, stack of postcards going back over fifty years - from family members and a pile from my Dad when he went on a trip round the UK - also one from my Dad's brother who ws killed in WW1 - he wrote a card to his Mum [my gran] and signed it "your loving son, Jack - few years later he was shot in a field in France |
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AnninGlos | Report | 26 Jan 2013 15:24 |
I have a couple of the old type scrap books, in one all our wedding cards, in the other all the birth congrats cards for our two children. I also have a large pile of cards from me to him and him to me, I also have some of the Mothers day, Nana and granddad cards we have received. I keep some bin some but don't keep any other than ours to each other and from children/grandchildren. I have a few of my own first birthday cards (Oh forgot engagement cards and letters from my Grandmother and aunt). I also have a few retirement cards and cards for when I left my work in Bedfordshire and moved her and when I left one department here and went to another. Yep, a lot of cards, mostly in an old cabin trunk. But when all is said and done the kids will just put them in the recycling, although I bet they won't resist reading them first. |
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BarbinSGlos | Report | 26 Jan 2013 15:30 |
Its lovely reading all your collections of memories |
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AnninGlos | Report | 26 Jan 2013 15:34 |
My OH says if I go before him he is hiring a skip. :-D |
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ZZzzz | Report | 26 Jan 2013 15:53 |
I wish I had kept mine and some inherited ones, but alas I threw them away, much against my better judgement at the time, but Hubby said they are junk and not to leave them for our son to have to go through and chuck, or not. |
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