Memories of me...Memories of you

[Lara]

I had to dig out a box of 'files' yesterday to find something. I discovered my history. I don't know why I have most of the papers I found, old telephone bills, credit card statements, receipts from purchases long forgotten. How about that old loan information from a car once owned. My first job, when I was a teenager, was in the early 1980's, I made 3.25/hour, working as a 'Warehouse Girl'. I saved my money to buy a $600 camera. Who out there keeps these old papers? What do you remember from them?

Cheers,
Lara

[Shea]

My husband gets annoyed with my filing habits. I'm always scared to throw anything away, but I have a hard time figuring out where to put them. I've kept paystubs from my first job to. I worked in a chocolate store (ironically, I hate chocolate) my junior year of high school. It was at the Mall, and I had a crush on the Boy from Italy who worked for his Dad at the pizza place a few stores down. I always made sure I had cash on me so that I could get him to deliver me some dinner.

What I hate is going through all that old poetry that I wrote in high school. So angxty (sp? or even word?)! I've kept old test papers and such but I haven't gone through them lately. Perhaps I will tonight. I've been meaning to go through my old notebooks from my Theatre History class. I got such a wealth of information from that teacher!

One bunch of papers that I definately kept were the ones from when I worked for a door-to-door company. (Definately the thirsting for experience stage of my life) We were paid by commission so I had to keep them for tax reasons. I'm not real proud of my being sucked into that game, but I'm not sure that I want to throw away the check I made a copy of comemmorating my biggest sale, $400. (I sold $40 coupon books to benefit a wheelchair basketball team (which was legit, I met the team))

Ok, memory trip over. Got to go to class!

[simon]

I've got a huge pile of receits with strange messages written on them by myself or friends. They reveal alot, some a lists, poems, or notes, or random words and reminders, but I can't seem to get rid of them.

[verybaddmom]

oh my goodness....i believe i crown myself queen of old and useless papers. and considering how much i move.....yikes!

but i do keep everything, from old and now crispy birthday cards (from when i was fifteen??) to movie ticket stubs (who wants to remember that they actually paid to see Evolution?). i keep it all. but on the plus side, my history is encapsulated in scraps of paper, which one day i will organize into a chronological account of days gone by...ya right. actually im sure that one day i will move and leave it all behind for someone else to deal with. in the meantime, who was it that said that the information age will negate the need for paper?
liar liar pants on fire...

[Stanislaw]

i have some old paper collections, but most of my old stuff is junk that I have collected over time, and music, I remember certain songs from the early days and it brings back long forgotten occurences. Uasually I am cleaning a cupboard or storage room and I find a box full of stuff I have forgotten, I then decide to sort through it and get rid of useless stuff, but guess what, I just can't get ride of it, All of my junk is still in boxes here and there in my storage room.

[kilted exile]

I had to throw out most of my stuff when I emigrated from Scotland 3yrs ago. However, since I dont normally throw anything out(tend to find bus tickets from years ago, whenever I put on a coat I haven't worn recently) I am well on the way to restoring my collection of junk.

[IWilKikU]

I don't save ANYTHING. You know all those documents that say "keep this copy for your records"? Well, I don't have any records.

[Koa]

*sighs* i keep everything... it can always be useful you know... and so things pile up in my drawers, in the total chaos... Not to mention the receipts or tickets or whatever that lie on my desk literally for years before I decide to move them (there's so much of a mess on my desk that you don't really notice if what's there is actually useful or not...). And it scares me to think that one day I'll have to leave some things behind when I'll move somewhere etc...
The most nostalgic of nostalgic trips are school diaries and what freinds wrote there... I read one of those just a few days ago, from the last year of school even, which was no longer than 3 years ago!!! But still, I felt as nostalgic as a 90-year-old...

[subterranean]

Me too, i keep old stuffs which are actually meaningless. I keep them with a thought that somehow they can be usefull someday.

[Shea]

I still have my Star Wars episode one movie ticket. The only thing I ever camped out for. It was fun, but I don't think I'll do it again.

[avid_reader]

i just junk everything into my drawers . once in a while (once in two months!) spent a whole day rearranging - filing ..them up. each time i do it , i tell myself to keep things in their proper places , file all necessary docs .. but , it never happens !
nevertheless , the rearranging day - is fun . each paper takes me back to some fond memory .

[Stanislaw]

I still have my episode I ticket, man that was a cool movie, I still even have a promotional chocolate bar wrapper from the star trek movie first contact, i hang onto alot of movie junk.

[GapingStarling]

Ha! I'm the biggest pack rat ever. I've got notes my girlfriends and I passed back and forth in high school, movie stubs, masses of concert tickets... All these little scraps in shoeboxes in the back of my closet. Whenever I'm having a nostalgic moment, I grab a box and have a look at what's inside. And don't get me started on my basement...

[mmaria]

I keep so many papers even fom my early childhood. Whenever I want to get rid of them, I can't. Don't know why.

[1n50mn14]

I moved out of my parents house at a young age and under bad circumstances, therefore, losing almost all of my junk. However, since doing so, I've started to rebuild it. E.g. train ticket stubs, I can pinpoint the exact one from the date I took the train to Gatwick airport to pick up my boyfriend to come and live with me in England. =D