Do you hold onto stuff from childhood?

[biggirlknickers]

I have letters and diaries from my childhood.

Honestly I hardly ever look at them (only when I’m having a de-clutter) and when I do look at them I get some pleasure from them but I get an equal amount of discomfort. Stuff happened in my childhood that makes me feel uncomfortable to remember and I mostly avoid thinking about it. Yet I also feel sentimental for those times and don’t want to sever my connection to my past. There were a lot of good times too.

I think I want to throw it all away so I never have to think about it all again. And to get rid of some clutter!

Do you still have stuff like that from the past and how does it make you feel?

Bump

I've got loads! Old jotters from school, wee notes, some old baby clothes.. Winning rosettes from when I was 8 (I'm 40 this year) I periodically condense it best I can. Especially after my mum died I kept more.
It's nice to look back on them and maybe the kids will enjoy it too one day 🤔 before they throw it out after I'm dead.
I must admit I wish I could just bin it and be less sentimental.

No I don’t think I have anything really except one teddy my mum has at hers but I’m not the type of person to keep birthday cards or anything like that either

Yes, I have lots of letters, old school things, name badges, artwork. I’m thinking of letting them all go now. I’m 43 & I’d like to move on to the next phase of my life, without amassing the same clutter again.
There are memories good & bad among my “life part one” collection.

Loads of stuff. Diaries (my mum was very big on making us write diaries), photo albums, teddies.

I also buy books I used to have as a child, especially Ladybird books. I have to stop myself buying the cassettes on eBay, at their vastly inflated prices!

A teddy and a few birth congratulations cards. Plus a couple of part school reports but nothing else. Am quite sad as, the other morning, mums at the bump and baby group were talking about their kids playing with their childhood toys and I’ll never have that chance as there’s nothing left.

Some old toys including my childhood teddies. Lego etc that could be passed on to my children.

I imagine my kids having to get rid of it all after I’ve died and it encourages me to throw it all away!