Are You Sentimental?

[lungs locked lips locked]

I am sentimental like a biatch. Which is really bad when your room is the same size as a match box. Its overflowing with...****. Like boxes and boxes of stuff.

I have really old pairs of pants for ****s sake (clean) kept because I loved them so much and maybe one day I could put them on a bag or frame them or something...but then i do love pants.

I think I've just made myself sound sufficiently wierd for one day.

[II_infinitum]

I'm the complete opposite. I keep next to nothing unless it as a specific practical or aesthetic value It just never occurred to me to keep things for emotional value. My girlfriend completely surprised me when she told me that she kept things like the piece of paper I first gave her my number on.

[Jelly Fairy]

I'm too sentinmental for my own good!! I keep waaaay too much stuff.

I'm especially bad for keeping stuff from people who mean a lot to me - even if it's just a xmas card or gift tag etc.

[Glowsticks]

Yeah, i am, i always have been but it's got more important in the last few years because i have an illness that messes up my memory (among other things) so i've lost huge chunks of my childhood memories :( and i hate that. So now i try and make scrap books of holidays and day trips, i rarely go anywhere without my camera and take photos of anything and everything, i keep tickets, flyers and receipts from things i've seen/places i've been to. I keep corks from champagne bottles from birthdays, anniversaries, etc.. I've even got 2 bunches of roses dried in vases that my now ex bought me.. i keep print outs of emails/PMs/texts. Wrapping paper, cards, envelopes, scraps of paper with doodlings on.. Anything really if it means something to me, it's maybe a bit out of control now, (i'm running out of room, lol) but i need to keep them all, the things can make me smile when i'm feeling down and alone and means i won't forget in years to come..

love E.
xxx

[chasing bliss]

A little bit.

I will never, ever abandon the teddy bear I got from my grandmother as a baby.

I hold on to things people give me, but generally I'm able to let go of what I don't need. As a child I was really sentimental and clingy but I've lost a lot of that through realizing that if something is really important, I'll hold on to the memory regardless of what physical artifacts I have to complement it.

Photos are important to me though. The trips I went on with my family when I was little are the best memories I have, and photos of those times mean a lot to me.

[bacardi]

i keep loads. but have recently discovered tht by keeping the stuff so close to my heart stops me letting go of them. I hardly let my teddy go, tht my boyfriend brought me, when we split up. like his clothes and everything i just cudnt get rid of them. im glad i gave evrything back, cept the teddy! cause now i feel less upset about th stuff...

but yeah, like cinema tickets and stuff, ive got em all! even bottle caps =]