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RE: The Things They Left Behind - 11/30/2008 9:32:47 AM

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I am a hopeless pack rat. I have letters and notes from when I was in high school. I save things for years and I love to look back through them and think of just where I was at that time in my life and how far I have come since. I also love to think about the twists and turns that got me to where I am now. Even though the relationship ended, it doesn't mean there wasn't a good reason for it, whether it was a lesson I learned or a person who is now in my life directly because of that relationship. No matter how much negative comes from a situation, I have learned that there is always a positive as well.

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RE: The Things They Left Behind - 11/30/2008 10:06:15 AM

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I am like Bear...a periodic hoarder of memories..and then one day I get in one of those moods and things either get packed away or tossed. I have started my life over so many times due to apartment fires (two both started in other apartments) moves, and whatnot that I have only a few pieces of memorabilia ( my sons pictures, Alex's H.S. diploma), some jewelery and things like that. Having been a bookkeeper I keep paperwork long beyond the point I should ever be asked to prove something and file it by years or now copies on CD Disks(multiple by year and months) but they are far easier to store and lock in a fireproof, waterproof safe.

Magazines I go through and scan things of interest then toss, but Books? Never met a book I couldn't keep. I have stashes of them ALL over the house...sigh.

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RE: The Things They Left Behind - 11/30/2008 10:16:11 AM

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........as odd as this sounds (especially from someone who doesnt like to cook), some of my cookware (gifts from Mom..sentimental stuff). The percolator coffeepot that is older than I am.

You have cookware and a real live coffee maker? That's sexy!

She has a toaster too...

<looks both ways and runs...>

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RE: The Things They Left Behind - 11/30/2008 11:51:05 AM

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Speaking of Toasters, there is this annoying commercial about having things both ways..one segment of which has someone asking for bread that is toasted and not toasted on the same slice. The person at the restaurant says you can't have it both ways and I grumble at the TV that YES..you can. I have a toaster with a Bagel setting..it toasts only one side of each slice so the inside is crispy, the outer side is warm and the cream cheeses is to kill for.
You CAN have it both ways.

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RE: The Things They Left Behind - 11/30/2008 12:55:19 PM

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Am i a keeper? lol guess You'd have to ask Mistress, She hasn't tossed me back yet so....

As for *stuff*, i'm a bit of a mixed bag in that arena. My mother was an extreme packrat, to the point of it being seen as a mental illness. Her "collecting" took on a life of it's own after my father died. At one point i was tasked with cleaning up her house and yard before the county stepped in and declared it unsafe. The names i was called, the screaming and crying i endured during the six weeks i spent throwing out her "collections" is something that will live with me forever.

Eventually, after i moved away the county won it's fight and her house and yard was emptied and the house torn down. Due to the limited amount of time they gave for this to be done, things that did mean a lot to me was destroyed or sent to the dump. Even though there were thousands of pictures of myself and other family, none survived her method of storing them. I took one item from the house and will cherish it forever. Some things given to me, when they lose "value" with me, i pass along to someone else that may enjoy the memories it holds. Such as jewelry my exhusband gave me. Some of it was saved and given to my daughter.

Because of this, i am quite the opposite. Some things i cherish and will never part with, however when i see a dresser "cluttered" or a closet "cramped"; i tend to blow a cork and start cleaning. I have boxes, neatly lined along the self of my closet with special *stuff* in them, letters, cards, pictures; other things that "fit" are on tables or shelves around the house. I am absolutely anal about copying and sending any pictures that i believe someone may wish to have. My kids have all been given dvds containing every picture i have of them.

As for special things between Mistress and myself, we both have locked trunks where we store those memories. Directions have been given to family that those trunks are to be handed over untouched to the other. I believe She has every email/letter/card/note i've ever sent Her stuffed into that trunk. I'm sure some of it would bring up not so wonderful memories, but it is all a part of our past and just as important as the "good stuff".

Mistress on the other hand, is a bit of a packrat. A true test of will to not go bonkers and "help Her" in that arena. lol Something i struggle with constantly.

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RE: The Things They Left Behind - 12/1/2008 11:05:23 AM

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I love to keep the pics the grandums draw for me. Squiggly lines all over the paper w/their name in the bottom corner. I just don't have the heart to throw them away but I feel I must now that I'm the receipient of newer squiggly lines

Like Poen I keep all of my books but I don't have the heart to throw away magazines. I'll bring them to work & place them in the general area where others place things that are up for grabs! I do enjoy collecting dvd's & videos and had around 300 until I went thru the shelves, grabbed the ones I NEVER watched & again, placed them in the "general area" for those souls that are desperate!

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RE: The Things They Left Behind - 12/1/2008 11:08:53 AM

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RE: The Things They Left Behind - 12/1/2008 12:54:00 PM

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