Apart From Family Photos Videos , Have You Kept Anything?

[Bobbisox1]

I made a scrapbook when Princess Diana died anc I also kept the last edition of the News of the Word

[webbo3]

Lots of newspapers from the eve of the millennium and from the day of the new millennium.

[Mamyalynne]

Newspapers that feature the family - everything from Births, Baptisms, Marriages and Deaths over the past three or so generations.

Certificates of all sorts.

Scrapbooks - The Monkees, Household Hints & Tips.

Grans poetry collection.

Some of my early artwork.

[Bobbisox1]

Good to look back
On Webbo

[Bobbisox1]

Likewise Mamya

[sanmac]

I have a copy of the Toronto Star and the Buffalo Evening news proclaiming the landing on the moon. Talking about photos, isn't it amazing that when you go through all the photos you've taken, and those of deceased relatives, how many of them have no names, dates or any type of description written on them.

[jourdain2]

I have a tapestry embroidered by a great-grandma; a miniature cabinet made as a copy of the full-sized one in my Gt.-Grandparents' bedroom suite for a grandma and a wonderful pastel drawing by Branwyn Sichel ( I think he was at Keighley Art College with my Gt.-grandad and they were family friends) as well as said gt-grandad's prize-winning drawings and the books he won as prizes. They are dated in the 1870s. I treasure them. The pastel is on the wall, the books in my bookcase and I read bits of them every so often.

[Cloverjo]

I still have a scrapbook of magazine and newspaper cuttings of the singer Toyah from when I was a teenager. Can’t bear to throw it out.

[pastafreak]

Newspapers from 9/11.
Recipes written by my mum, her hand painted cards that she sent me. Her paintings...and a few crocheted items. Baby slippers knitted by my MIL.

[Peter Pedant]

all sorts of stuff which my in laws are searching out and destroying ( de-cluttering ) (*)
as my brother said:
buy the time anyone gets interested in what you or father did,
you will have been dead for forty y

(*) - my mother predicted her in laws would get hold of all her Indian stuff and burn it. They have

[naomi24]

My teddy bear given to me when I was four. There’s lots I wish I’d have kept but didn’t though.

[ladybirder]

I threw lots and lots of stuff away when I had the suspected cancer diagnosis. Didn't want to leave everything for my family to sort out. I need to do it again so will probably do it on a cold rainy winter's day when there's not much else to do.

[gness]

Just a very few things.
Special are a tiny prayer book my dad bought when he went to England in the 40s. Not for the prayers but just for what he'd written in the front of it and a fairground prize. It's a cheap little cat that was won by a girl before ever I was born. Her parents were very special to me and her mum gave it to me about forty years ago.
Ahhh....just remembered the hair! From my daughter who decided to have her waist length hair cut off when she was about ten. Who keeps a bunch of old hair?!......:-)

[ladybirder]

Oh yes, I have kept a lovely lovely letter my father wrote to me one Monday. He bought me a Birthday card as my birthday was the next day and put a lovely letter in it and posted it. That evening my brother phoned me and told me Dad died this afternoon. So a Birthday card and a lovely letter arrived and I had to read it knowing my Dad was dead. It was the last thing he did as after he posted it he felt unwell and went home and lay down on the sofa and died. Still got the card and letter. Also kept all the condolence letters I got when my son died.

[tonyav]

Ticket stubs, Sew on badges ( from my Wigan Casino days ), football progammes from special matches that I attended, photo's from when I was a baby and the years inbetween then and growing up, some photo's of my mom and dad's wedding.

[TheWinner]

yes. too many things to mention.

[gness]

Sad, LB but how lovely to have that special card and letter from your dad.
As many of us do I have kept the letters and cards received after MrG died. Such lovely sentiments from friends and family.

[pixie374]

My sister and I have a "work" file, where we have some some photos, funeral cards, written cards and letters, etc... from clients over the years. Which we don't often look at, very occasionally, but just like knowing it's there :-)

[ladybirder]

I do get warm feelings when I read it still gness. He left us, my mother, brother and me, for another woman when I was young. We rarely saw him, his new wife was jealous of my bro and I and she was awful to us when she did see us. In his last few years he realised what he had done and felt guilty and tried in his way to make it up, especially to me. So the letter is really special, telling about how he pushed me around in my little pushchair in the days before he left us.

[Ken4155]

I have the very last birthday card my mother gave to me in 2012. My birthday is the 8th March, she died on the 16th. Couldn't bear to throw it out then and it is now somewhere in a box in my spare bedroom.

[pixie374]

One thing I wish I still had, was my blanket that my gran crocheted, and I would never sleep without. My mum convinced me to let her cut it smaller, to make it easier, but at that age, I didn't know it would just fray. And has since totally disappeared.
Even all this time later- I really wish we had kept that.