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To ask what you wouldn’t want others to find

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JaceLancs · 05/05/2018 22:03

Been clearing the house of a relative who died suddenly n found lots of strange things - some fetish stuff but others just random oddness eg noting in diaries the anniversary of age of an electrical appliance ‘fridge freezer 19 today........’
Making me wonder what I wouldn’t want someone else to find.......
In my case diaries from my angst ridden teens
What about you?

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mercurymaze · 05/05/2018 22:29

i have a few deep dark secrets but i wouldn't put them here for obvious reasons i imagine everyone has something..

Chocolatecoffeeaddict · 05/05/2018 22:30

Mine and DP's "sex drawer".

bobstersmum · 05/05/2018 22:31

How do you lot know when your freezers were born?

FreudianSlurp · 05/05/2018 22:32

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JaceLancs · 05/05/2018 22:36

I always thought said person was Aspergers or ASD and wading through their stuff reinforces this
Many obessions and lots of cataloguing and list making and ordering plus keeping things just in case

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JaceLancs · 05/05/2018 22:37

How many carrier bags could your hoard contain? I’m talking tens of thousands...........

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BlueTrousers · 05/05/2018 22:37

Queenoftheblitz I keep a tally of how many times I use something and see if it the claims of 65 washes or whatever it says on the bottle is right (it never is) and each time I finish a bottle I write my ‘best score’ on the new one and see if I can beat it Blush

... Yes I’m aware of what a giant loser I am

sobeyondthehills · 05/05/2018 22:37

If I had a fridge that was 19 years old I would celebrate it as well

silverpenguin · 05/05/2018 22:38

I can't think of a single thing! I must be very boring.

I did have some teenage diaries which were a bit cringe but I shredded them a few years ago!

Mannix · 05/05/2018 22:40

Yes yes to the teenage diaries. I think they may contain some very bad poetry Blush

Mamabear1475 · 05/05/2018 22:41

My endless lists of thing I want/can't afford. I even have a list of what I would buy if i won ten million Blush I have a secret book for all of these

MoistCantaloupe · 05/05/2018 22:42

I’m definitely going to make stuff up to plant now though. Diaries full of my sexy adventures with famous people. The time I wrote jokes for Eddie Izzard. The time I had dinner with Stephen Fry. The time I killed a terrorist on the underground. All the good stuff.

rosenylund · 05/05/2018 22:48

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abbsisspartacus · 05/05/2018 22:49

Everything is in my mind and dementia runs in my family I'm playing the odds and betting it will all die with me

Queenoftheblitz · 05/05/2018 22:50

Pinkball I wish you hadn't told me that. I'm so suggestble, I'll probably start a tally of my own! Wink

Mammalamb · 05/05/2018 22:51

My teenage diary. But mind you, my husband already found it last year and had a good laugh reading it! I was bloody raging!!!

Carouselfish · 05/05/2018 22:52

Also teen diaries! Maybe we could all compile our highlights into a collection for a book (to be shared with teen DCs when they're going through stuff and think they're the first and only ones)?

MyNameIsArthur · 05/05/2018 22:52

I've kept a daily diary for the past 35 years. I'm going to leave them to the diary archive project. They will look after them. Warts and all, I think they are a part of social history so would be a crime to throw them out. Family in the future will still be able to access them as part of the family history.

RainbowGlitterFairy · 05/05/2018 22:55

A memory box of stuff from DS' father, photos, letters and birthday cards he's sent DS etc. I've kept it because I assume at some point DS will want to know (DS knows the letters and cards arrive, he just doesn't know I fish them out the bin where he puts them unopened) - I wouldn't want anyone to find it and think I had kept it for me, or worse that I'd been hiding DS' post.

My art books - I love painting and drawing but I like trying out new mediums and styles so a lot of it looks like a child's work whilst I experiment.

CookPassBabtridge · 05/05/2018 22:55

My discharge stained knickers
Random life goal lists
Dildo, fleshlight, lube etc
My chocolate cupboard

Queenoftheblitz · 05/05/2018 22:57

Not only did I keep a teenage diary, all my entries were to "Dear Jimmy". Dear J immy was James Dean who I had a huge crush on, despite him dying 8 years before I was born. I've got to burn it.

caringcarer · 05/05/2018 22:59

I have a ridiculously large bone china collection. I mean seriously ridiculous. After my Mum died for some reason the only thing that made me feel better was buying the bone china. I think it reminded me of my Mum. At he time I felt I just had to have it. I bought it and did not always tell my dh or dc. Now 5 years later it seems odd even to me and much of it is hidden from my family in boxes in garage.

FrozenMargarita17 · 05/05/2018 23:02

@PinkBall I'm in awe of this. Now I think I might do it. I have a sharpie somewhere..

PlatypusPie · 05/05/2018 23:05

I read out some excerpts from my teenage diaries to my daughters and we were all in fits of laughter- not from the very tame and predictable content ( crushes, friendship crises, unfairness of hockey team selection,clothes purchases ) but because of the wildly dramatic and hyperbolic prose. Everything was SO marvellous or UTTERLY awful !!!!! I don’t think I actually spoke like that - not sure who I was channelling .

AornisHades · 05/05/2018 23:10

My old freezer was 23 when it died. My current freezer is 21.