Is there something you have that is sentimental

[glo]

OK, I have got to be the biggest sap in the world. I keep everything that people I care about give me. I have these two great shirts a friend gave me that are sentimental because they meant something to the person. I still have the everything my twins wore in the NICU...all three girls first paper done in kindergarten. The doll I took out of Cuba, my grandmother's rings, a Kennedy 1/2 dollar given to me at age 7 by my grandfather.....I have things that mean the world to me...that I could never ever part with.


Right now I have a coin in my pocket, that was given to me by someone. Really is silly, not a money coin, but given to me by a friend who has not been doing well lately. So I keep it in my pocket and when I feel it I say a prayer.


Am I a total nutcase? Or are others like that??? Or should I be looking for the men in the white coats?

 

[browneyes]

You're not a nutcase, you care. And it shows.

I keep all kinds of stuff that mean a great deal to me. Little stuff that wouldn't mean much to others but means a lot to me.

I bet the girls love to see their NICU clothes.

 

[glo]

Yes, they do...and play with some of my old toys and dolls. My youngest sleeps with a teddy bear that was mine

I thought I was crazy being like this

 

[WebmasterPete]

I have my 'memory vase'. It was the vase from the first set of flowers I was ever sent by a 'significant other'. Everything that I find special or sentimental get's put in that vase. I've got stubs from play tickets, letters, and god knows what else in there. Actually, the damn thing is so full, its time for a new one

 

[browneyes]

Maybe the Flower Fairy can find you a vase, Pete.

LOL! Glo, if you're crazy, I must be too.

 

[MAC3]

I too Glo have all my DD papers from Kindergarten and some that she had done in the daycare before she started school. I think they are the most special things.
I also think that they will appreciate the fact that we saved them. Their small for such a short time, I want to remember these things.

Hand prints, I remember in our old house my DD put her hand on the window and left the most perfect handprint. There was nothing else on the window except that , it took about 5 months before I washed it off!

I have kept most of my cards from the special people in my life, my DD. My Mom & my Husband and a friend I've had forever!

I consider myself lucky to have these tokens of Love from these people!

 

[Mskanga]

I have my father's watch , a ceramic figurine that one of my dearest aunts gave me for my birthday one year, a huge coin that my grandmother gave me once dated from 1871, a crochet quilt that my grandmother made for me, a soup bowl that one of my very best friends gave me years ago ( you should have seen me bringing this from Spain on the plane ). They are all deceased now , and just recently I found myself looking at my grandmother's coin a lot, as a matter of fact , it's right above my keyboard on my desk right now.
My kids have one tv from their grandparents who passed last year, and trust me it took some work for me to be able to get that for them. Everything was basically split between the two daughters. I didn't want anything for myself but I think my children should have gotten something from their grandparents.
Oh yeah, and I have tons of school projects and papers, and stuff all kids related.

 

[Miss Jasmine]

My most cherised item is a sleeping cap that my mom and I made my dad when he was sick to help keep him warm (the chemotherapy, drugs and cancer made him feel so cold all the time). So when he passed that was the thing I wanted most because I could tuck it away and carry it with me if I wanted. My second most cherised item is a handkerchief that belonged to my grandfather. I now keep it inside the sleeping cap.

I still have papers I wrote in High School and in College. And I have tons of cards from over the years. I even have a partially ripped dollar bill from my best friend at the time. lol I have a large rubbermaid storage bin and it is full. I'm ready to start my next one.

 

[ILUVDXL]

The thing I hold dearest and touch often is a open gold heart with a diamond in the center that my Mother always wore and gave to me on her death bed. I never take it off so she is always with me.

 

[tc]

A lot of silly things. I have a note on my refrigerator that a friend of Sarah's wrote me. It says, "Kelli, I am writing you this note. You can never take it off of your frig. April". She went through some really bad times after that, and then they moved. That was about 12 years ago, and it's still there. When I see it, I say a quick prayer for April. I hear she's living in Alaska, married with a baby and doing well. I even moved it when we bought our new house.

Also, cards, letters, pictures, notes, and various other stuff. School papers, clothing, baby shoes, quilts, etc. Yes, I'm a sap deep down.

 

[CarolAnnC]

I try to not be a pack rat, but there are some items that are near and dear to my heart.

Since I am in the midst of sorting and packing my house up, I am coming across many things that hold sentimental value to me. My DD's First Communion dresses, my late husband's Army uniform, photos, cards and letters..there are many that I value.

I have two tiny bracelets that my mother bought for me when I was a newborn. They are so precious and remind me of a new mother's devoted love to her infant. So precious....

 

[Chipperdini]

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[AirForceRocks]

Yep, lots of sentimental stuff, ranging from a clock that belonged to my great-great-great-grandfather to my 9/11 bracelet.

 

[Cinders]

Speaking of shirts....I still have my DIS shirt that I only occasionally wear so it'll last forever. I have a lil ceramic incense burner that I just love that was my aunts. My mom gave my DSs each a 2 dollar bill that belonged to my uncle that passed away 2 years ago. I have a lil tin in the shape of an old milk can that has special coins....not just old ones but a few from trips too. I have 2 lil cough drop sized tins that have special ticket stubs from waaaaaay back when I was a kid and I currently have a coke bottle tin for current stubs. I think instead of calling my cedar chest a "hope chest" I should call it my "memory chest" since thats where all the boys momentos are stored now.

 

[CourtasanSatine]

E-mails from DBF and the necklace he gave me for our first Christmas as a couple(it will be a year in August of us dating).I still have papers from HS and various classes plus yearbooks

 

[FOJMO]

I still have a 5th Avenue Candy Bar (bite size) from 1979!!! When my DH and I went to see a friend's rock group play at a Holiday Inn, they threw them into the audience! I still have it as a remembrance of simpler times...

 

[Towncrier]

I have boxes and boxes of things that mean the world to me and to me alone. Little scraps of paper. Photos. Bits of string. Each one holds a memory for me.

My DD Sarah is now wearing all my college jerseys and tshirts. At first I was upset, but then I realized that they are special to her too. They weren't doing either of us any good hidden away in a closet or bureau.

But I think that my greatest treasures are our photo albums and videotapes of our children. I would gladly part with all of my other possesions if I had to in order to keep the pictures and sounds from the past.

 

[TerriP]

Oh, I have lots of "stuff" that I have kept over the years. I guess the most important is the half dollar my Daddy used for the coin toss when he was a KICKS football ref. Followed closely by a photo I have of him refing (sp?) a game where my future husband is playing in the background (I didn't know him them....we ran across this photo over ten years later after we met and his mom was showing me his baby/childhood photos - by then my dad had passed on and I was stunned to see him show up in my then boyfriend's photo album!).

I have every card DH has ever given me and *one* other card....my niece and nephew sent me a card one Mother's Day that said "Like a Mother to me". Since I will never have kids, that card is very very precious to me.

 

[ahutton]

I have a teddy bear that my Grandma got for me when I was doing a fund raiser in 5th grade to earn money for summer camp. He sleeps on my DDs shelf on her bed. I have my autograph book from our first few trips to WDW (completed in 1980) along with all the polaroid pictures I took on my Behind the Scenes Entertainment Tour. I still also have my silent movie camera that I saved all my allowance for that I bought from my parents right before our first trip to WDW, and still remember how lucky I felt when they gave me the money back as my spending money on the trip for working so hard to save the money in the first place. I also have a shield my Grandpa had made with our family name on it, it hangs in our office of our home.

My DH says I collect a lot of "crap" but I know the secret - it's treasure!

 

[honeywolf7]

Terri, I can see why that picture of your dad officiating at a game where your DH was playing when he was a child would be special to you. I think I would have almost taken it as a sign when I saw it.
I am not a pack rat. One thing I do have that I take with me everywhere I move is a small statue of a Chocolate Labrador Retriever I found when I was in college in Georgia. I had left my dog that I had had since I was 12 behind when I went to college and when I found that statue, I had to have it. My childhood dog died almost two years ago (strange, but thinking about it still can bring tears to my eyes) but I still have that statue and I will always keep it. I also have Broncos jerseys for both John Elway and Terrell Davis.