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I was over at my mum's this weekend and asked if I could have a sift through her old family photos to scan them. We ended up going through the cupboards and I was amazed at the amount of things she's kept. Not only things you might reasonably expect, like my old school reports, but things like a couple of Boots photo gear catalogues from 1968 and 1970 and even odd newspapers from the 50's and 60's. Some things have significance, like newspaper articles with my family members in, but other things seem just randomly kept. My mum doesn't see this as odd...she says everyone accumulates things and she's been in the house for 50 odd years so stuff builds up.
This got me thinking...is my mum weird or does everyone do it? I'm guilty of hanging on to things that have good memories for me, like old gig tickets, but not just random shit.
On a positive note, we did find my dad's medal ribbons from WW2, completely unworn and still in their original box from the MoD.
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Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
just because you do, doesn't mean you should.
I'm not locked in here with you, you are locked in here with me.
Kind of on the flip side of that: after my nan died a few years back we were sorting through her stuff and found a pic of her and her 5 sisters when they were in their 20s. My nan was the only to get married and have kids, all the others died young or were spinsters. In the end nobody wanted the photo and it got binned (I guess we were all looking to move on, not hold on).
Later it struck me that that non of the sisters had any living family, and there was no real record of any of their lifes, like they'd never exisited. Not keeping that picture I think is the only real regret I have in life.
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You'd expect there to be some back end about no longer having as many possessions and so on, but I actually own more things now, the difference being that my wife isn't a maniac. If anything having a good relationship with a normal woman encourages me to enjoy life and the things in it a lot more.
Ex: Marshall JMP1, Line6 Spider III, Yamaha APX-8A, Fender Roland-Ready Strat, Roland VG-99 (flight cased with Roland XV5050), Roland FC-500, Yamaha AES620, M&K home cinema speakers, Zoom A2.1u, Takamine EG512CFG electro-acoustic bass, 3 WD-Music necks, Fernandes MIJ gold Strat...
just because you do, doesn't mean you should.
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
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My missus on the other hand can't get rid of anything, ever. We've got sets of golf clubs (she has never played) every item of clothing or toy the brats have had over the last decade... Worst of it is that she watches those hoarder programmes and doesn't see what is staring her in the fucking face. She is a fruitloop I tell you, barking. Arrghh
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.