Throwing out your memories

Hi Stephanie, Oh I have had to do this many times and yes it is sad butyou do still have the happy memories. Years ago I lost most of my family photos due to a flood whilst in storage and many other items but I have the memories although I was devastated at the time. I try to look at it that they are only material things. Huggles. Ellie :D

Sometimes we have to make hard decisions in life. Let it be leaving a thing, person or place. But thats what life. In life time comes when we have to take decisions against the saying of our heart. Though I have not been in such troublesome conditions but I know how it feels and hurts.

It wasn't my item. I tossed a shirt of my husbands that had so many holes it it, there were more holes than shirt. It was a memento from a trip that he took, but there just wasn't even enough left of it to make a good dust rag imho.

I am thinking about getting a bean bag chair one day, though we have nowhere to put it. I used to have a bean bag chair as a child, and loved, just loved to sit in it. I think that even though my old chair has it's own memories, the new one will have new memories...

Hi Stephanie, OMG! I have had to throw away so many things that were falling apart a were pieces that I had around for many years. My bf finally convinced me to throw away my Exercise Bike that I had for over 20 years because it was in the way and collecting dust! I was so upset, but I finally agreed! And then he decided to "help" me clean out all my closets and cabinets! I don't even know what I threw out, but it was from living here for 28 years then so who knows! It needed to be done, I just couldn't get myself to do it and there is still more to go 2 years later!

It sure feel that way, but mine is gone a while ago, because i hated to clean up those darn beans. They get all over and you can never get them all, so i fought months with them even after the chair was gone.

Its a weird feeling. When you throw such things out. I had the same when i had to dump my first laptop. I am a computer engineer. My life is set with computers. So i think you will understand what kind of feeling i should have gone through. It stopped working completely. First the batteries then the screen. After that i never touched it, its in the store room of my house. Dumped! .. poor me ..

I would throw anything that is no longer useful even the item had a good memory on me since it would just make a mess on my room. I have no other vacant room where i could put those item to become antiques. Since it already in my memory or in my mind is the best storage for me. I would still remember it. Even the things still useful on me and my mother would not tolerate me. She would throw or burn anything which is no longer useful and just could not control her as she is the queen of the house:)

I hear ya on this one! I have had to do this a lot it seems. I've moved and shuffled stuff around and had to get rid of a lot of stuff to be more mobile. It really is like throwing out memories, but not really. You just don't have the memory sparker any more!

yes .... to get rid of memories that is inherent in our hearts it was hard. I am approximately two years ago never to lose a girlfriend who is very dear to me, because she left me. It was hard for me to forget these memories with my girlfriend, although now I've got a new girlfriend, but I can not forget my ex-girlfriend for granted. I do not know how to forget the memories with my ex-girlfriend. It's very annoying ...., ..!

Hi, StephanieAnnC! You are really a reminiscent person. I remembered in one of your comment you told me your family have lived in current house for more than twenty years. I moved many times, things were thrown away in each moving, so I don't have many things which stayed with me for a long time. Maybe the only one stired up my feelings was a computer which had accompanied with me for about 4 years. I felt a bit sad when I sold it and bought a new one with higher performance. I cleaned it carefully for it served me so long.

I thrown alot of stuff that has meanings with it (like pillows,clothes,letters,stuff toys and alot more)...its just that people have to move on and not just hold the memories besides memories will still remain as memories right?but happy memories should be kept and bad memories should be thrown away.

Yes, that happened to me too, somethings have many memories, but we must to throw them out. For me it was hard to throw or to give things of my childhood, and It was sad, all the memories that they had, when I was a child... Anyway, I had to do that, now I'm older, and I won't play those children's games... :(