Sentimental?

[Redhelen72]

With packing and downsizing we have made up our minds to get rid of as much as possible which isn’t a problem for me or so I thought!
I cannot throw out the jars of pickles dad made me! I don’t even like them!
But everytime I go to do it I end up in tears!
Daft isn’t it!
Are you sentimental and hold onto stuff not necessarily photos etc

[Barsel]

Oh my word yes! When I read you were packing up to move, I remember thinking, I'm glad that's not me.
Hopefully I won't be moving again until it's in a wooden box.
Unless I win the Lottery of course.

[MargoTester]

I can't part with my Mum's glasses and purse.

[Cloverjo]

I can’t throw anything away.
I was about to chuck out some videos as we have nothing to play them on now, but I just couldn’t. I got them out of the rubbish bag and they’re now sitting uselessly in the spare room.

[Barsel]

Margo, I still have my Mums bus pass! My Dads cigarette case and he died 53 years ago. I have a tin with Mum and Dads memorabilia in it.
The most bizarre is probably a little magnifying mirror my Mum used to find those stray hairs that grow on your chin. :-)

[Mamyalynne]

I am sentimental about the strangest things and it took me 12 years before I could stop washing,drying and rehanging my husband's bathrobe before I finally donated it to charity.

My advice, chuck what you must then have the cry. x

[Redhelen72]

Thanks all I could understand the memories you all have but these are pickles!!!
I may get the husband to throw them out!

[ducksie]

I'm still throwing things out, 10 yrs later almost, still have my Dad's darts, deck of Guinness playing cards, silly stuff, his last cig butt, I have so much stuff of my Mam, one would think she is still living with me, I was always a minimalist kind of person, now there's no room for both out stuff, sometimes i go on a cleaning spree and feel great, i got rid of so much but then I look elsewhere and think - I've not even chipped away at the tip of the iceberg - think i need a cold hearted cleaner come in - place is clean, just someone to get rid of 'stuff'

[choux]

I would add some to my casseroles or gravy, seriously.

My late father used to bottle tomatoes, ad nauseum, I used to buy the tinned variety and chuck the bottled stuff out one by one. Wish I could moan about them now though...

[Cloverjo]

My dad was chucking out some stuff recently. He found a Sunday School Good Attendance certificate of my granny’s (dead for 20 years now). He asked me if I wanted it. I said no, so he put it back in the box to be sorted out at some future date.

[bobbie22]

I have a certificate or rather a card from when I was a baby when I was vaccinated against diphtheria. I also have a good conduct card which was my Fathers when he was in the Merchant Navy. He was born in 1904 and he was 16 years old maybe

[bobbie22]

I also have my Dads birth certificate which has been folded for so long that it is impossible to open it

[zebo]

When my mother died and we were clearing her house her supply of homemade pies made their way into our freezer, each had a little scrap of paper saying what it was, apple, cheese'n'onion etc and I still have those over 20 years later.

[Smowball]

I still have the top layer of my wedding cake!! I was told at the time of my wedding it was good luck to keep it and then cut it at the christening party of our first child, even tho I knew we would never have children I still kept it! Funny thing is it still looks as good as the day we got married!

[jennyjoan]

smowball - I thought you had a few children

RH - it is very difficult and emotional to throw things out - very difficult in fact but it must be done unfortunately.

[douglas9401]

Research is key when downsizing.

You really need to know your onions.

Meanwhile, back at Jennyjoan's comment...

[albaqwerty]

Got weird stuff that belonged to my late brother, his set of darts, a stuffed toy badger and some other bits n bobs. They all moved house when he did (until his last move) so they'll come with me :-)

Smow may have children, doesn't necessarily follow that Mr Smow is the father.

[Redhelen72]

Thanks all, I think I need to take control and throw them out myself.
I spent 10 minutes staring at them this morning but still could not do it!

[ducksie]

It's never easy RH and to think of you sitting there this morning looking at them, that's sad x

[Smowball]

Jj - I meant the wedding cake of my marriage to Mr Smow, which was after I’d had all my children, and we knew that we as a couple wouldn’t have children together. (But think in laws still hoped lol)Sorry for not being clearer.

[Redhelen72]

I know ducksie, it was awful but I really could not bring myself to lift them off the shelf!
I have set myself a target of getting rid of them by close of play today