What do you keep?

[micropolitan guy]

I have a box with newspaper clippings from my (meager) high school/amateur baseball/soccer careers, varsity letter and numerals, and tons of letters from when I was in college and then first out in the world, back when people used snail-mail.

Also have a lot of photos, in another box, and a shoebox full of old numbers from my running career, with time and a brief description written on the back. They don't take up much room and they have great sentimental value to me. And clippings from several years, from back in the days when we had a librarian that kept a clip file for every reporter.

My parents moved several years ago and I had to throw out a bunch of stuff from when I was a kid. I would have saved a lot more of it if I didn't live so far away from them.

 

[CradleRobber]

All your clips.

Baseball cards.

 

[Bucknutty]

Yeah, I eventually need to get all my baseball cards from my parents' house and move them to my apartment. That will be a haul.

 

[John]

Wow. I don't save much of anything. I could walk out of my apartment with one box full of stuff and never think twice about the rest of my belongings.

 

[Trey Beamon]

Wow. I don't save much of anything. I could walk out of my apartment with one box full of stuff and never think twice about the rest of my belongings.

I'm the same way.

Keep the music, electronics, books, photos and chuck nearly everything else.

 

[Claws for Concern]

Ever heard of eBay?

 

[Sam Mills 51]

I've gone through so much stuff the last few months that it's insane. What helps is it makes me think twice about buying ANYTHING. Having gone through a move recently, it's amazing how formerly precious stuff becomes useless sh_t so quickly.

Compared to my parents, I live an almost gypsy-like existence (if only I'd stay away from audio/video equipment and compact discs!). To boot, I've experienced once and heard from another the headaches of pack rats and will try to avoid repeating. Like sxy said, you can't take it with you when ... well, you know ...