Aibu to be choked up about giving the dcs' shoes to our local community trust?

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They're only shoes after all. But there's all their first pairs and I put them on the pile to give to the trust but I got really choked up and clutched them to me. That's pathetic, isn't it?

I hate hoarding stuff and of course it's utterly pointless having brilliant shoes in a box in the cellar when they could be being worn and used - like shoes are meant to be. Why is it so hard?

I've been tough and done all their old clothes - sorted and given away.

Am I being namby-pamby-wet-blanket to almost in tears over this? Shoes.

I'm off to get a glass of wine to steel myself.

I couldn't give away DD's first pair, no logical reason so YANBU

same here, can't bear to get rid of their lickle shoes. And I HATE hoarding. I don't want to be a weird old lady with piles of old baby clothes in the attic (to be thrusted on my DIL on arrival of first grandchild). But the shoes, I well up I do

Nope - I'm a ruthless chucker outer. The things I have kept, however, include their little hospital wrist bands when they were born, their first shoes, and their first babygro's. They have a box each with their birth congrats cards and christening cards and a copy of their birth announcements.

YANBU - put them back.

I gave all DD's and DS's shoes to the community centre in Tottenham set up following the riots. BUT I laid them all out on the floor first and took photos and I kept their very first pair (one pair each). We just don't have the space to keep all the boxes, I took those in to DD's nursery when they were asking for shoe boxes for making boats. After I had laid them all out, I showed them to DD who was absolutely not interested in reminiscing, she didn't like the smell!

God, I feel such relief. Weird. I'll keep their first shoes.

Erm, but it's very wet to want to keep all their wellies, plimsolls, trainers and subsequent shoes, right?

Right

You're a braver person than me op. Actually I have no idea where ds's first shoes are, they might have been chucked because they were trashed. But I do have dd's first shoes, shiny black patent Mary Janes I might give them to my friends dd on the understanding she gives them back to me so I can treasure them forever

I would (and have) keep the first pair for each child but the rest can go - you've got to draw the line somewhere unless you fancy a collection of adult size 9 sweaty trainers in 15 years time!

I gave away my daughter's first pair of shoes. Mother-in-law was gutted. She wanted one so it could be silver plated to add to the shiny collection of her children's first shoes...

I've only kept a couple of ds's other shoes, some crocs which should fit dd next summer, some (fake) fur lined Gore Tex boots from Timberland which dd is going to wear this winter whether she likes it or not as they're in perfect nick, and some wellie boots. Trainers are trashed by ds so definitely not passed on to anyone!

Oooooh first shoes!!

I've got my DD and DS first shoes.
DD came home in the same vest and babygro that DS did two years before.

I've also got my DS first Hallowe'en outfit that I lovingly made.

(Not a tat horder ,honestly )

Nah YANBU. Although I just dumped my DC's first shoes because, well, there's no point in keeping them if they weren't going to be worn again. No sentinentality here.

YANBU but I remember how expensive those little shoes seemed when we first bought them for our PFB ten years ago and was happy to see them go to an organization that might see them on to a family that might really appreciate them.

Off topic but the dcs first wellies were varnished and used as planters by my mum.

I keep nothing . )))clutter and junk(((

I've kept dcs first shoes and first teeny tiny hats, ruthless about the rest.

You must keep their first shoes.

First real shoes fit build-a- bear animals. Their shoes are expensive, it's the perfect excuse to keep DDs first shoes

I still have my first pair of proper shoes (blue mary janes), my first pair of bridesmaid shoes (little white satin ballet shoes), my first pair of actual ballet shoes (pink satin) and my first pair of "grown up" ribboned ballet shoes, because I was so proud of them.

Keep them. And feel free to keep "milestone" shoes - your DCs might thank you later!

(I chucked my tap and jazz shoes - I was never any good in those classes)

Please don't get DD keeping ballet shoes, they are always so tatty by the te she gets new ones.

I'm an absolute bitch clearly.

I have not kept anything, no first shoes, clothes etc.

Although I do have the hospital band and a million and one photo's.
Oh and I did keep DD's final plaster cast as I was just so god damn pleased she was finally out of one (in for 7 months)

I just don't do clutter or sentimental stuff actually.

I have kept dds first pair of shoes with the idea of putting them in a nice aperture frame.

never gotten around to it though...

"I don't want to be a weird old lady with piles of old baby clothes in the attic (to be thrusted on my DIL on arrival of first grandchild)".

Meet my MIL , who gifted as a forty year old book on pregnancy and a bag off dodgy 70s baby clothes as soon as she heard I was pregnant.

Seriously, my advice is don't keep things, but I'm an unsentimental sod. If you give them away to a good cause now at least you know they're being used and enjoyed by other people rather than gathering dust in your attic.