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.

Find said photos, look through them, infront of DH... oh what's this doing here (envelope) I'll chuck that in the recycling... wait for response, ask questions about response if necessary.

I keep lots of random 'memories' in random forms, I have a piece of tissue I keep, It holds the last memory of someone, but to someone else would be so random.

I have cards from my dad for the same reason, I couldn't part with them.

Why not? Does it seem weird to you?

I have an old used envelope my dad sent me at some point. he is gone now.
I love seeing his writing

Oh come on, surely you know the Hidden Envelope Trick? I thought everyone knew that one?!

Find said photos, look through them, infront of DH... oh what's this doing here (envelope) I'll chuck that in the recycling... wait for response, ask questions about response if necessary

Guaranteed to make you look like a tit.

I have an envelope with my name on it in my best friends handwriting.

I'm guessing the handwriting looks feminine and you suspect/worry that it's a memento from a woman who is not his relative and likely not deceased.

I can't deny that it would probably hurt if I found my DH was holding on to something from a former girlfriend or crush. Having a few old 'tokens' tucked away is obviously everyone's right, but I wouldn't like to think he was frequently looking at them, cherishing them, obsessing about the past or a missed opportunity.

But on the other hand, it could be something completely different.

Yep I've done this

He suspects attempts are being made to control him, and that even the most trivial and unimportant details of his life are being snooped on, so he has set up as trivial and unimportant a thing as possible as a test case.

Do not coerce him into binning his envelope.

Probably contains an invisible letter from a wizard.

My husband keeps all manner of random bits of paper, envelopes, documents, most often frustratingly folded into avsmall square so i have to open it out to figure out what it is, in all sorts of places. I open and throw away what is clearly rubbish but lots I just have to leave mouldering away in their "hiding" place. There is no reason at all why some of them are folded away... if I ask why it's been kept, or kept in a particular place, I get a blank stare.... he genuinely has no idea, no memory of folding them up and squirreling them away instead of putting them in the bin.
So.... my point I'd, it's quite possible that there is no reason at all for this envelope being stuffed in with the photos, just random chance.

Drugs. It's always drugs.

It’s from his other wife.

I have the last birthday card my dad wrote me, and envelopes written by other loved ones who have since passed on. DDad died 30 years ago, and Parkinson's took his handwriting 10 years before that. That card is what I'd save from a house fire.

I also keep other structural sound envelopes , which have no sentimental value, even if they have my name on. I use them for cash for the milkman and by who cuts the grass. I just scribble my name out, and put theirs. Bit of tape. Job's a good 'un.

Me too!

He's having an affair with his secret envelope

If it bothers you that much, why not ask him directly? Why ask on here? People are so strange!

Having just cleared out a tiny fraction of a housefull of 'stuff' after a bereavement: people keep all kind of shit and there is very likely not a significant reason.

He could have printed out some photos, meant to write something on the back of the envelope like a reminder, but was distracted by something else so chucked it in there.

Maybe the photos were printed off for him by someone like his mum and sent to him in that envelope, and he’s planning to put them in a multi-photo frame as a thoughtful gift for your anniversary/Christmas but didn’t want you to know so he didn’t put the envelope in the bin.

Maybe he’s actually a spy, secretly taking down an international crime gang but they’ve found him and sent him the photos in that envelope to try and pressure him to give up state secrets to keep you guys safe…and he’s hidden it so you don’t worry and his double life isn’t uncovered.

You don’t know unless you ask…but, alas, I fear we shall never know.

It seems to me that you are being tested by the said “envelope saver” as to just how much snooping you do when they aren’t there! Stop being so nosy!

I myself keep used envelopes. When I give cards I write on the front where the stamp would be, so it can be repurposed. We’re living in a recycle-reuse time, so why waste anything??

I keep one because it's the first one my LO "wrote" to me on

This is the explanation. It's why we have a random piece of paper on a window sill.

Honestly, why does it matter to you? It's not your envelope, by the sounds of it, the photos weren't yours to snoop through either.
Surely your dh has a right to keep something if he wants to and shouldn't have to justify himself.
He's not a child, and you're not his parent, leave him and his envelope alone!

I keep them sometimes as they are useful