Important Memories Vs Pointless Tat

[Mr Sleep]

In the process of cleaning out a cupbaord at home i happened upon lots of my old doodles and writings from when i was below the age of 7.

The thing that interests me is that this is mostly tat and to be honest i would throw it out and make way from more CDs However i know there are people (ergo my mother) who would wish to keep this stuff, so the question is, when does old crap become heirlooms and memories and when is it just crap?

[Tamerlane]

If you have any doubts about throwing anything away. Well then its not crap anymore.

I've got a pile of old drawings which I just can't throw away.

The scary thing is that the pile just keeps growing.

I have however thrown away letters and other stuff which seem to be more important at the expense of my drawings and cartoons. Most being made during the boring lectures recieved at both school and uni. So they are sentimental somewhat.

[Beldin]

I've my own way to handle that problem:

If I can't decide if something is "crap" or "treasured memory" - I just put them in a box I keep for that very purpose.

Once every year (mostly around my birthday) I open the box and throw away all those things I've never even thought of the last year - and keep the rest as "treasured".

No worries,



Beldin

[Mr Sleep]

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Originally posted by Tamerlane If you have any doubts about throwing anything away. Well then its not crap anymore. I have however thrown away letters and other stuff which seem to be more important at the expense of my drawings and cartoons. Most being made during the boring lectures recieved at both school and uni. So they are sentimental somewhat.

Interesting theory

I have folders full of little doodles, mostly just characatures, all of them bad, but all hold a kind of romanticism

@Beldin, that is a good idea

[Tamerlane]

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Originally posted by Beldin If I can't decide if something is "crap" or "treasured memory" - I just put them in a box I keep for that very purpose. Once every year (mostly around my birthday) I open the box and throw away all those things I've never even thought of the last year - and keep the rest as "treasured".

I going to have to steal your idea.

Hope I remember where everything is in one years time.

[Beldin]

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Originally posted by Tamerlane I going to have to steal your idea.

Feel free, it's not copyrighted - YET !

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Originally posted by Tamerlane Hope I remember where everything is in one years time.

- That's my point exactly - if you can't remember - throw it out.

Besides - c'mon you have only to remember the location of ONE box....you can't be that demented.

No worries,

Beldin

[Tamerlane]

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Originally posted by Beldin Besides - c'mon you have only to remember the location of ONE box....you can't be that demented.

Can't I?

Well I guess having a box in my room all year wouldn't be easy to forget.

[Beldin]

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Originally posted by Tamerlane Well I guess having a box in my room all year wouldn't be easy to forget.

...under the bed is always a good place to put such things....

[Tamerlane]

Thinking of making it into a bedside table. I'd throw an alarm clock on top. And we have a cheap table/box thingy.

[Beldin]

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Originally posted by Tamerlane Thinking of making it into a bedside table. I'd throw an alarm clock on top. And we have a cheap table/box thingy.

Just don't forget to empty it once a year !!

No Worries,

Beldin

[Dottie]

My way to handle that problem:

If I can't decide if something is "crap" or "treasured memory" - Its crap

If I think something is a "treasured memory" - Its crap

If im using something on a regular basis - Its probably crap but i keep it just in case

If it is computer related - Its not crap

[Tamerlane]

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Originally posted by Dottie If it is computer related - Its not crap

Love your last theory

[Dottie]

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Originally posted by Tamerlane Love your last theory

hmpf, its not a theory. Its a fact. For example that 60meg hardrive that i have around here somewhere is definatly going to be of great use someday.

[Yshania]

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Originally posted by Dottie hmpf, its not a theory. Its a fact. For example that 60meg hardrive that i have around here somewhere is definatly going to be of great use someday.

LOL! I have just given my little brother an old 233 processor I hadn't got around to disposing of! - he thinks it so fast compared to the Pentium 1 he was using!

I am a hoarder sometimes In one sense I go with what Beldin said and put things away - if you don't get said things out of the box over a period of time, it is probably worthless That said - it is also nice to rediscover items you had forgotten you had! Maybe this is why I take nearly a year to process photos - it is so much fun trying to remember taking those shots...being reminded of a day/event that had slipped your mind etc etc. The downside of this, is when family/friends want up to date photos of the kids I have none

[frogus]

I never throw anything away. I am not a hoarder, because i do not think that any of my stuf is particularly valuable, and it's not that I can't bare to be without all the **** all over my floor. My mother always tells me that it is useless to let all the old crap pile up, because the good stuff will be lost forever, but the fact is, I never stress about having lost something. When my six-year old doodlings get chucked on the floor I forget about them, and as far as I'm concerned, I do not care about something which I can forget about so easily. the only stuff I couldn't throw away is the useful stuff that I do stuff with all the time.

On the sentimentality front however, that is a different thing entirely. At the moment I am making a book for the future. This is because a while ago I found a little scrap book in my dad's garage that was full of cute and lovely poems and drawings and quotes from these kids who were around in 1931. I dunno who they were. I am filling my book with current major affairs, and social commentary and poems and objects and letters of great sentimental value to me, as well as kind of letters to whoever gets it. I think it is interesting to write to somebody who doesn't exist yet, and no more stupid than writing to people in foreign countries who you will never meet. I think it will be fascinating for a kid in 2073 to find this book and have a clip from my outdated life.

'Men, they build towers to their passing yes, to their fame everlasting
Here he comes chopping and reaping, hear him laugh at their cheating'