Keepsakes...sort of

dkay

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This isn't political but I just saw on the news where Kavanaugh is going to present a calendar of his school activities from the 1980s at the senate hearing. It supposedly has all of his scheduled activities etc. on it and it's being submitted as evidence.

I just went through everything I own to see what kinds of "keepsakes" I had on hand.

I have old yearbooks from high school, some newspaper articles with photos of me and my classmates when we qualified for the state debate tournament, I have family memorabilia, I have little cards and pictures that my grandchildren made for me or sent me for my birthday etc. etc. I have old photos. I have tax returns etc. that I keep as long as suggested then I shred them. I have books, I have a couple of old magazines but I didn't save every magazine I've ever received. I have a box of recipes and even those I weed out once in a while and get rid of those I rarely use.

I have never personally saved any calendars. When I get a new calendar, I copy all the birthdays , anniversaries etc from the old calendar onto the new one but I have never kept the old calendar. I guess I'm not much of a packrat or hoarder. If I haven't used something for 2 years or more, I get rid of it (except for things like birth certificates, legal documents). I just find it rather strange that someone has kept old calendars from his school year(s), I wonder if he's saved all of his calendars, I wonder what kinds of weird things or unusual things some of you may have kept throughout the years?

Probably the oddest thing I have is a keepsake box filled with rocks, sea shells, campaign buttons, a petrified orange-things that don't matter to anyone except me. But not an old calendar anywhere in my apartment.
 

I only kept old calendars as back-up evidence for tax returns to substantiate business trips and meetings. From school days? Nah. To me that would indicate a touch of OCD .
 

The only sentimental things I have ever kept are mementos of my children growing up...photos, baby books, etc. For whatever reason I do have my high school yearbooks. I basically don't like clutter so I don't keep much stuff; even tax/financial stuff gets tossed after the required retention time.
 

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