Do you still keep old letters or do you throw them out?

I am very sentimental and on top of that I am a pack rat. Yes, I keep all my old letters and cards and correspondence from all the years. It drives my husband crazy because I hang onto everything but it means so much to me. I have many old letters from a dear aunt who passed away last year. It makes me smile to be able to go through her old letters and birthday cards to me. It is something that is still tangible of her since she is gone now. Have a great day and happy myLotting!!!

WOW!!! You're really a GOOD keeper! I don't keep letters from that young of age, but I still have letters when I was in Junior High School (so about 16 years ago), High School, University. I also keep some of the cards from my friends, esp. those with important notes inside. I LOVE reading them and feeling loved and encouraged by them. :-))))

I think it is important to keep old letters, especially if they are from family members or old friends. It is a good way to document parts of your life and you won't be sorry you kept them!

Yes i do keep old letter and cards, it is real memorable things.

Hello rosedust82. I have always love keeping old letters, cards, and other old stuff. It reminds me about happy memories from my past, from my childhood, from the people i love. The old letters i kept was a letter from my Dad to my Mum when she went abroad, and Dad thought He will never see her again. It was the most sweetest love letter i have ever read. It has been kept by my mum and now its in my precious keeper box. :)

yeah i used to but since i moved out from our house, i don't know where they are now.. some came from my high school buddies and the rest were from my family and relatives abroad..

I tend to keep all my letters. I don't read them often but I do sometimes break them out and just see how stupid or crazy I was when I was younger. I have them stuck in an old shoe box. It's actually completely and utterly stuffed to the top of letters too.

I usually throw them out. That is what I do. Unless I have a reason to keep the old letters I just put them in the trash can after I read it. But that is me.

Oh,I have some and I like to keep them before and I also will have a look at them when I missing them.But when I gratuate from senior high school I throw all of them out.

I will only keep my love letters. Lol. Normally I don't keep the normal letters from friends unless there is any special reason or story in it. Because my room is ran out of space to keep all the letters. Sometimes,I face difficulty to stuff in all the letters. I like my room to be as simple as possible,meaning to have the lesser things the possible. Lol.

i keep somethings but not old letters especially because i have a girlfriend and i don,t think she will appreciate me keeping old letters of my ex woman around the house because iam trying to keep her not get rid of her. i want the sane respect from her as well.

I actually do keep a couple of old letters. I actually threw some away. I only kept some because those letters meant a lot to me. Those I threw away have no significance at all to my life.

I do keep our love letters. For me, my husband love letter is a treasure. Every gifts and every card that he gave to me, i always keep them. When he came to visit me, i am very proud to show to him all his letters and cards to me. Keeping those things is the best way to show your partner how much you love her and how much you treasure all the things that he gave to you.

here,i have to say that there's no old letters for me any more, i have to throw them out before i married, since they are almost from my male friends but none from my husband! my friends and i write letters when we were in senior high school,that's the nice days i cherish till now. my husband met me when i was a junior,and it's quite certain that he will jealous after reading those letters. so it's better to keep them away from me, but they will always in my mind.

Hi there rosedust82! I am a very sentimental person... just like you. I do keep letters and cards no matter how old they are. There are times when I would go over some of them and reminisce. I have a box which I made myself where I keep all those letters and cards. There are even instances when I would print out emails sent by my friends and loved ones and keep them in the same box.

Hi! since my heart was broken before, the old letters that I used to read from an x-girlfriend were accidentally thrown away by our aunt. Maybe she thought that it was just a piece of trash LOL :) Fortunately, it was meant to be thrown away for me not to remember the pain again.

Hi there! I do keep the letters I receive from friends. I have them all in a small tin can together with my stationaries. It's fun to read them and remembering the past and the stuffs I use to do with my friends. I also have lots of letters from my ex boyfriend. I still keep them though we're not together anymore. Keeping letters for me is one way to help us never forget about our pasts I think. Our friends especially those we don't see anymore. And not to forget about the special events that happened in our lives cause once we read one letter, all memories from the past starts to freshen up. And I like remembering the past. Ciao!

Hi Rose, I usually keep the old letters but only of people whom I care and love a lot, a thought of whose gets a smile on my face. Reading letters of loved ones always gives me pleasure which I cherish and therefore I always treasure the letters and card of my loved ones.

I am sensitive by nature,I tend to always preserve every little small thing in life concerning important people in my life.Letters, cards, gifts, almost everything.I feel this is a feeling of love someone showers on us through tthese things.So i want to last this love forever.so i keep all the things i get from somebody.I have so many letters of my brothers, sistes, sister in laws..and so many people's greeting cards too.

I kept some letters from my best friends.Today,not very many people choose to write letters,but I think that's a way to express our emotion than any other ways. I won't keep all the letters,only the one who has left a deep impression on me. When I read some of them again and again, I'll feel very closed to them.Always they are far from me now.I even lost someone's message,so I kept a lasting memory this way.I have a nice box to filled the precious letters.That's a box of forever memory ,I think.