To be upset I lost my sons umbilical cord and some baby teeth?

[Annoyedatmyself8]

Currently renovating house and I have misplaced (but possibly accidentally thrown away) a container containing my son’s umbilical cord clip which I’ve saved for years and some baby teeth. I still have some of his milk teeth in his first tooth/first curl box but I stupidly didn’t put the others in there. Spent ages looking all over the house for them, everywhere I can think of and cannot find them. I have his siblings’ things still. Realistically is this going to bother him or me in the future or am I just hormonal (am currently pregnant) and massively overthinking things?

When my mum gave me my milk teeth in a matchbox I threw them away. Why would I want those? You place much more importance to those things than you child will.

So gross

I once lost a set of underwear and found eventually mixed up with the Christmas decs

Classic. Did you deck the halls with them?

There are all sorts of things that we keep that only mean something to us. After my dad died we had to throw out so much stuff that I know meant a lot to him, but nothing to anyone else. Pebbles from a family holiday, feathers from walks in the woods, his broken pen set from the first job he had, some of our old children's books and toys, a piece of fabric from one of his mother's dresses, his dad's worn out tools (and much more).

I felt bad skipping them all, I know what they meant to him, regardless that they were just random things to me. They were his physical link to the past, not mine, but that doesn't mean they were not important.

It's not the box of teeth that were important, it was what they meant/represented to your mother. All those years she watched you grow. To ask what use the actual item itself is missing the point.