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[cdave]

Bit late for a What I Did At The Weekend (Went to Caption (Oxford small press comics convention) on Saturday, and down south to visit parental units on the Sunday) post, but one of the things I did was clear some of my junk out of a parental loft.

[Poll #1446736]

I found that I had 3 cardboard boxes of "school stuff" and 2 plastic crates of "University stuff". I didn't have much time to go through it, but managed to sling a few bits (such as all my sixth form era invites to University open days). While I do like the odd doodle in the margin, and in joke scrawled on the cover of a notebook, I'm really not sure I need to keep quite this volume of stuff.

Given that I haven't looked at it in years, and am unlikely to do so in the near future, I probably should just sling most of it. But it's so final. This stuff, as useless as it is, is literally irreplaceable. I managed to avoid picking up a "bargin" in IKEA the other day on the basis that I'd rather pay full price when I need it, than hang onto something that just takes up space. But this stuff is my own hand.

Comments

[hawkida.livejournal.com]

Most of my stuff like that had to be abandoned when I was moving between places because there wasn't space to bring it, rather than no space to store it. I do have other paperwork that goes back to when I was 15, and I've got a nearly full set of school reports back to primary school. Things I do regret losing are letters from penfriends and some of the more creative school work - a few bits of art stuff, creative writing and so on.

[bohemiancoast.livejournal.com]

I do pretty much still have every personal letter of any consequence I have ever been written. Though that too is eventually for the scan-and-discard mill; I don't want my children to have to sort through that sort of thing.