Keepsakes. What sort of things do you keep?

[Rnm62]

Just wondering what kind of keepsakes you keep and how you store them all?

Ticket stubs? Meal receipts? Leaflets/wristbands from memories/days out with your partner etc. Also what about greetings cards? Any letters? Special gifts?

Or memory boxes of your child: like hospital bands, first outfit, any cards they get, scan pictures etc.

I think you get the jist! I’m really sentimental with these sort of things and wondering if it’s a common thing to keep all this stuff haha! I’d hate to get rid of it all.

Scan pictures. A few photos.

That’s it.

Scan pictures, hospital bands and hat, going home outfit, born in XXXX outfit, first birthday card from us, first curl from haircut, baby book, photos, first shoes, maybe a couple of their favourite books.

From trips to OZ and NY. Tickets, dollars etc. Photos and tour guides.

Nothing except our cards to each other for me and dh. They're all banded and dated each year and boxed.

Dcs. Scan pics. Hospital Bands. 1st outfit. 1st shoes. Anything they've had done personalised. School reports.

Then when they start school their 1st English and math book. Paintings the better ones.

I used to keep everything for the dcs every school book. Painting etc.. But when I moved I for rid of most of it. Kept the good bits.

Far far too many photos... I have 35 albums of 200 pics. Albums are in date order with memos next to photos.

I'm now not so organised. I have photos to print, stuff to go in boxes and haven't.

Minimal amounts of stuff kept here. Ticket stubs, meal receipts, leaflets, cards, etc all get dumped in the recycling.

I've kept their hospital bands (tucked into the sleeve of their red book), have their scan pictures printed in their photo albums from when they were babies, and I cut up all the baby clothes they wore lots and sewed them a memory blanket from them. Dh collects all their teeth (he usually does tooth fairy duty), but I'm slightly freaked out by the random box of teeth and would happily bin it.

Most people think I keep nothing much, as I love minimalism and generally live by the rule of "if I haven't touched something for a month, get rid as I don't need it".

But, I've got a little stash of random scraps of paper that my boys wrote little notes on, drew pictures, scribbles, etc. when they were little (19 and 14 now).

It's well hidden in my big box of paperwork for general household and insurance crap.

It's the one and only secret that I have from Mrs PC as I feel a bit old sod for keeping them and I'm generally the least sentimental person, but well, those little pieces of paper are from my boys and were always given with big smiles.