What's something you've hung on to that should be thrown away?

Four WW1 brass artillery shells with intricate engravings that my Dad traded 200 cigarettes for when he was a POW guard after the war was over in 1919 in Belgium. He served in the Canadian Army overseas from October of 1915, to his return to Toronto in June of 1919. The German soldier who did the work had been a fine arts engraver before the war started. Dad didn't smoke but he was entitled to 200 Canadian made smokes each month, so he bartered them for the shell casings. They have his name, serial number, unit, and the name of the camp, which was near the Belgian town of Dave, in Belgium. Two are 8 inches tall and two are just 4 inches tall, made by Krup industries in Germany in 1916. The engraving was done with a large darning needle. It took the man 3 weeks to complete. They are sitting on my book shelf as I type this. Perhaps a donation to the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa, in my will ? JimB.
 

I have a few things of my Hubby s still to , sell/ throw /or give to Charity ,, I manage to sell one of his 4 Guitars at Christmas .
 
I finally got rid of it a while ago, but I had a set of weights for a weightlifting regimen. I used it maybe once or twice, then it stayed underneath my bed for years. I dragged it from house to house. I usually forgot about it until I moved.
 
C50 said:
Didn't want to hijack the "what do you have from the 70's post"

Is there anything you have drug around for years that really should just be tossed in the trash?

I'm typically good at disposing of stuff yet I still have some things from highschool. My diploma, my football jersey and my letters, (you know the letters you sew on your letterman jacket, that I never got)

It's just garbage stuff, kids would certainly have no use for it. Everything I happen to look into that box I think "throw it out", yet 44 years later I'm still holding on to it. Next time for sure it's going in the trash!!
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I keep makeup for too long. I am sure some items are a decade old - I am very economic.
 
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