Why would someone keep an empty envelope?

[Anothernamebite]

To ask why a person would keep an open but empty envelope with their name on the front. They haven't mistakenly kept it. I know this because it has been deliberately moved from its original place and hidden in a new place while they were tidying up.

Could be from his mother or grandmother if she passed, or something innocuous like that.

How about he had some photos printed. Did nowt much with them. Re-found them and stuck them in the envelope he had kept from the time that Sarah, his boss at the office, had left one time on his desk containing a key to the secret room of mysteries that could only be entered via the accessible toilet on the third floor. He used the key, but the gorgon that lived within, swallowed it, and almost your DH too. He escaped with his life, but kept the envelope as a reminder to himself never to trust women called Sarah or to borrow their magic keys.
It's the only explanation.

If it’s hidden away with photos it is obviously sentimental.

Exactly. I kept envelopes that had sentimental value.

Are you thinking it might be from an old flame?

I'm guessing they're must be something else you're suspicious or worried about you're not telling us about him?

Like Narnia.
Paper made from a the wood pulp of a magic apple tree.

I would have said forwriting shopping lists on but after your update about photos, I assume it's to separate some photos into, maybe to pass to a family member or to take somewhere like for his desk at work. What is your concern?

Isn't it pretty obvious that it matters? Why do you think the OP has started a thread if she's not bothered?

Assuming hes not just absent mindedly moved it I'd assume sentimental value of some sort

Good grief, you clearly think it means something - what?

I would assumed to keep the address, until I saw the update.

Maybe he was just fiddling with it while putting the photos away? Unless it's an uber special envelope, and there are major details you are omitting, I can't imagine I would have even noticed the same envelope twice.

what a non event- Holy shit, have you nothing else to occupy your time.

This wouldn't even register with me.

I presume that the handwriting isn’t your husband’s. Therefore I assume that it has some sentimental value, and he doesn’t want you to know about it.

I keep every card and envelope my granny gives me

Maybe it's in the handwriting of a person they loved that is no longer with them. I keep gift tags and cards for that reason. If it's a comfort to them why does it matter (unless their hoarding is a major issue)?

They haven't mistakenly kept it. I know this because it has been deliberately moved from its original place and hidden in a new place while they were tidying up.

Sounds like his idea of tidying up is putting things away neater than they were, rather than actually considering whether that thing actually needs to be kept.

When you look at the area he was tidying, it will look tidier, but he has simply moved the rubbish around and/or hidden it away in places it fits, as envelopes and photos are of similar sizes.

Whoever has folded it up and kept it with a pack of photos has some sentimental attachment to it. Who is in the photos? Your partner's ex? Someone you think he has a crush on?

Could be to put some of the photos in? To separate them from the others? Maybe wants to give some to his sister/mum/aunty and doesn't want to use the packet they came in so the envelope is being reused for that?

What are you suspicious of?

Would your husband police you if he found you had an envelope with your name written on it?

Well that depends entirely on who wrote the name on the envelope and who went to meticulous lengths to save it, doesn't it? You don't have much imagination if you can't see why this potentially might be an issue for the OP.

Of course it could be nothing worth worrying about at all and she's being paranoid, but without more detail we can't know.

My friend used to keep opened envelopes "because they had her name on"

She was and still is a clutter bug.

But this sounds different and odd.

Yes. Of course.

When we take and keep so many photos digitally, it makes printed photos more special.

Could it be used for collecting money, and for some reason they just keep using the same one? It might be some kind of aide memoire to help them remember to do something?
Or the only remnants they have of a lamented love lost many years ago. Who knows?

Who is in the photos? What are they of? Are they old or recent? Does he usually get photos printed out these days? Who wrote his name on the envelope and where was its 'original place' that he moved it from?

And why are you concerned about any of this?

Nope- honestly wouldn't even register with me, but then again I'm not suspicious of my husband.