to deeply regret giving something away to charity?

[SunSoakedStone]

Months later I'm realizing the sentimental value... and I'm GUTTED!

Can't say whether or not YABU until you tell us what you gave away.

At least it went to charity and was not thrown away.

If it was a shop, have you checked it's been sold?

My mum did this - gave away some of my 1st baby dresses and really regretted it later. There's not really much that can be done.

oo-er it is precisely this that stops me dealing with my hoarding tendencies: I have too often given stuff to charity and regretted it later. Though in my case it's clothes which is a bit shallow

I should clarify - my clothes

No - I hoard clothes - but nothing else.

But, it, is, really, just stuff.

I sometimes bemoan the offerings I've made.

But not for long, only when I think about the things I could have given to my daughter.

Presumably you had good reason at the time of your decision, or had you not fully realised the item's provenance when you gave it away?

If you can't recover it, console yourself with the thought that your memory of the item has just as much sentimental value as the object itself.

Nature ahbors a vacuum and it's probable that other items that are already in your posession, or those that will find their way to you at some future date, may come to have just as much meaning to you as the item you generously donated to charity.

We live in a world of material abundance and there's no shortage of 'stuff' that we can become attached to for whatever reason. However, as the saying goes you can't take it with you - surely it's better to know that something you treasure will be loved and appreciated by others in the here and now than thrown on the tip after you've departed this earth?

(slinks away to ponder the difference between'practising' and 'preaching' and to reflect on all of the meaningful items that have slipped through my fingers)