Old stuff!

Heineken Helen

I decided to clear out my wardrobe last night (there are boxes in the bottom) and went through lots of my old stuff... fucking hell, I found letter that I'd got and faxes that I sent to friends from when I lived in Paris ten years ago . I spent hours going through them and having a great laugh. I'd forgotten most of the stuff but it brought it all right back to me I also found letters that I'd gotten in the French college 2 years before that and they were SO boring like 'how's the weather there? It's nice in Cavan' even though I was only about an hour drive up the road, lol.

I love when ya find random shit like that that you forgot you kept

NY PJ1

i hope u threw out the old dirty underpants

Heineken Helen

NY PJ1 wrote:

i hope u threw out the old dirty underpants

Nah... after ten years... I'm keeping them babies

is that what's at the bottom of YOUR wardrobe :eek:

MattCameronKicksButt

Heineken Helen wrote:

I decided to clear out my wardrobe last night (there are boxes in the bottom) and went through lots of my old stuff... fucking hell, I found letter that I'd got and faxes that I sent to friends from when I lived in Paris ten years ago . I spent hours going through them and having a great laugh. I'd forgotten most of the stuff but it brought it all right back to me I also found letters that I'd gotten in the French college 2 years before that and they were SO boring like 'how's the weather there? It's nice in Cavan' even though I was only about an hour drive up the road, lol.

I love when ya find random shit like that that you forgot you kept

Oh wow! That's giving me a headache just thinking about it! If something doesn't have a use, it's got to go. The same goes for my computer and PM box. I like it to be sorted and clear. I can't have stuff cramming up my box. (That sounds rude. )

Heineken Helen

MattCameronKicksButt wrote:

Oh wow! That's giving me a headache just thinking about it! If something doesn't have a use, it's got to go. The same goes for my computer and PM box. I like it to be sorted and clear. I can't have stuff cramming up my box. (That sounds rude. )

Yep, it did!

I love keeping letters and diaries and stuff though... brings the memories right back. There was sooooooooo much I forgot. I was talking about people I'd even forgotten about. And lol, I remember meeting this group of Croatian lads one night and I must have given them my address and invited them to Ireland (I was still living with my parents ) and I found a couple of postcards that they'd sent me afterwards saying they can't wait to get to Ireland. I remember being terrified reading them and picturing my mothers face when this group of Croatian lads landed on my doorstep . They never did thank fuck.

MattCameronKicksButt

Heineken Helen wrote:

Yep, it did!

I love keeping letters and diaries and stuff though... brings the memories right back. There was sooooooooo much I forgot. I was talking about people I'd even forgotten about. And lol, I remember meeting this group of Croatian lads one night and I must have given them my address and invited them to Ireland (I was still living with my parents ) and I found a couple of postcards that they'd sent me afterwards saying they can't wait to get to Ireland. I remember being terrified reading them and picturing my mothers face when this group of Croatian lads landed on my doorstep . They never did thank fuck.

That's really nice actually. I lie. I do keep some cards and letters. It depends how special they are. And I keep all my sons stuff.

Sian-of-the-dead

Yeah! I moved house recently and found so much shite i'd collected over the years. Letters, school leaving book, pictures... it was all a bit emotional tbh!

The best thing I found was my diary that I've written in on and off since I was 11. It was really weird being 23 and reading it back, the last time i'd wrote in it was 7 years previously, and I was rabbiting on about some guy i'd met and moved in with! I felt compelled to write in it again (mainly because I was moving out from that relationship breaking down) and it was so emotional to read it back. I'd been through so much in the 7 years and i'd grown up so much!

I think i'm gonna keep that til the day I die tbh, I love the fact I don't write in it often, only really when something major happens. I'm not the type to write one everyday but when I do record the big events, my gosh they are huge!! I might sell it actually, would probably out-sell JK Rowling and Jilly Cooper... *thinks*....

harmless_little_f***

I'm not enjoying rummaging through old stuff these days.

Heineken Helen

MattCameronKicksButt wrote:

That's really nice actually. I lie. I do keep some cards and letters. It depends how special they are. And I keep all my sons stuff.

well I think I pretty much kept them all. There was a school friend of mine who I didn't realise I was still in touch with at that stage who sent me plenty of postcards and it's made me wanna look her up... and lots of my college friends wrote telling me what was going on at home. And there was lots of other stuff. It was really cool. I found stuff I'd completely forgotten about like (and this is probably pretty sad, lol) my grandmothers coin collection she'd given to me... there are 200 year old coins in there :eek:

Heineken Helen

Sian-of-the-dead wrote:

Yeah! I moved house recently and found so much shite i'd collected over the years. Letters, school leaving book, pictures... it was all a bit emotional tbh!

The best thing I found was my diary that I've written in on and off since I was 11. It was really weird being 23 and reading it back, the last time i'd wrote in it was 7 years previously, and I was rabbiting on about some guy i'd met and moved in with! I felt compelled to write in it again (mainly because I was moving out from that relationship breaking down) and it was so emotional to read it back. I'd been through so much in the 7 years and i'd grown up so much!

I think i'm gonna keep that til the day I die tbh, I love the fact I don't write in it often, only really when something major happens. I'm not the type to write one everyday but when I do record the big events, my gosh they are huge!! I might sell it actually, would probably out-sell JK Rowling and Jilly Cooper... *thinks*....

I know what ya mean... I've never been much of a diary person either but when something big happened I felt the need to record it. I found one I kept when I was 11 too and it was fucking hilarious the things I felt necessary to note

Heineken Helen

harmless_little_f*** wrote:

I'm not enjoying rummaging through old stuff these days.

:( I'm sorry... but maybe now isn't the time... in a couple of years perhaps.

MattCameronKicksButt

Heineken Helen wrote:

well I think I pretty much kept them all. There was a school friend of mine who I didn't realise I was still in touch with at that stage who sent me plenty of postcards and it's made me wanna look her up... and lots of my college friends wrote telling me what was going on at home. And there was lots of other stuff. It was really cool. I found stuff I'd completely forgotten about like (and this is probably pretty sad, lol) my grandmothers coin collection she'd given to me... there are 200 year old coins in there :eek:

The last part's not sad. That's pretty cool.

This thread makes me think of The Simpsons. 'Sure it's not 1985 right now but who knows what tomorrow will bring'?

decides2dream

i loooovvvvveeee looking through old letters/cards/photos. i am pretty organized with all, boxes designated for years and/or specific individuals, 98% of photos in albums - before digital any way - however there are some real old, or just misplaced photos floating about in a box or two. also, i have tidbits from travels, art postcards, ticket stubs, etc....great to look through! i have every card/letter my husband has ever written me, and that's going back to 1987! :eek: it's nice too, b/c most written correspondence and/or photos easy to store/organize, doesn't take up much space to save either. i even have a lot of my papers and notes from school, report cards, etc. i've only saved a small sampling of my artwork from my younger years, mostly from college/gradschool, takes up too much space...and sadly, i had to get rid of ALL the design models i made b/c again, just take up too much space! but i took pics. hahaha. i just adore having *tangible* things to bring back a whole flush of memories and times in my life.


and yes, i have an expandable folder dedicated to pj ticket stubs, cards/notes from friends, pj stickers and memoriabilia from travels, etc.

Heineken Helen

MattCameronKicksButt wrote:

The last part's not sad. That's pretty cool.

This thread makes me think of The Simpsons. 'Sure it's not 1985 right now but who knows what tomorrow will bring'?

yep, that's true. It's strange to think of back when all that was going on... I wonder what was going through my head... if I even knew I'd LIVE to be this old

Heineken Helen

decides2dream wrote:

i loooovvvvveeee looking through old letters/cards/photos. i am pretty organized with all, boxes designated for years and/or specific individuals, 98% of photos in albums - before digital any way - however there are some real old, or just misplaced photos floating about in a box or two. also, i have tidbits from travels, art postcards, ticket stubs, etc....great to look through! i have every card/letter my husband has ever written me, and that's going back to 1987! :eek: it's nice too, b/c most written correspondence and/or photos easy to store/organize, doesn't take up much space to save either. i even have a lot of my papers and notes from school, report cards, etc. i've only saved a small sampling of my artwork from my younger years, mostly from college/gradschool, takes up too much space...and sadly, i had to get rid of ALL the design models i made b/c again, just take up too much space! but i took pics. hahaha. i just adore having *tangible* things to bring back a whole flush of memories and times in my life.


and yes, i have an expandable folder dedicated to pj ticket stubs, cards/notes from friends, pj stickers and memoriabilia from travels, etc. : p

I have all school reports and stuff too. I found my college exam results which I'd thought were lost :eek: . I'm MUCH less organised than that but I still have lots kept. I didn't go through everything last night... keeping some for another night

eMMI

I love goind through old stuff!

the bad thing is that I'm not organised at all. every now and then I swear I'll put everything in order and all.. but it never happens. lol.

although, I do have one drawer box for letters and such from Finnish people/Finland and other box for foreign memorabilia.

Heineken Helen

eMMI wrote:

I love goind through old stuff!

the bad thing is that I'm not organised at all. every now and then I swear I'll put everything in order and all.. but it never happens. lol.

although, I do have one drawer box for letters and such from Finnish people/Finland and other box for foreign memorabilia.

Hahaha... I always swear I'll organise it too... and of course I never do. Cos I put it back in the wardrobe and say 'I'll do that in a couple of weeks when I get the time' which of course I never get

Sian-of-the-dead

Heineken Helen wrote:

I know what ya mean... I've never been much of a diary person either but when something big happened I felt the need to record it. I found one I kept when I was 11 too and it was fucking hilarious the things I felt necessary to note

Oh god, mine's better than a Billy Connelly stand up session only more cringe worthy!

The petty little things I used to record is hilarious! I was completely in love with this lad at school.. I liked the way I thought it was love! :rolleyes: ahhh... and the way that when you're 11, you think an argument with someone at school is the end of the world, they're all the uddered bovine's under the sun and three pages later you're staying over her house sharing secrets again!

It is good to read about stuff like my feelings on my first kiss, being useles with boys etc... I'm still a nervous sap even now! Somethings never change! :rolleyes:

Jennytree

Oh god... the memories! Most of my really old stuff is still back in my parents house, gives me something to do when I go back to stay! All the old school reports, and letters from my friends when I was 13 giving out about other girls and the boys that I fancied!

And the best are all the old mix tapes I have, from pirate radio stations I could only listen to when I stuck a hanger out my window with the aerial attached.

Ah, back in the good ol' days

Heineken Helen

Sian-of-the-dead wrote:

Oh god, mine's better than a Billy Connelly stand up session only more cringe worthy!

The petty little things I used to record is hilarious! I was completely in love with this lad at school.. I liked the way I thought it was love! :rolleyes: ahhh... and the way that when you're 11, you think an argument with someone at school is the end of the world, they're all the uddered bovine's under the sun and three pages later you're staying over her house sharing secrets again!

It is good to read about stuff like my feelings on my first kiss, being useles with boys etc... I'm still a nervous sap even now! Somethings never change!

I never wrote about my first kiss strangely enough. Although I'll never forget that It lasted about 3 hours and I didn't move my head at all... my neck was killing me for a whole week but I was too fucking happy to give a fuck

And yep, even when I was in France one of the girls was writing to me about this fella I'd fancied in school. I musta still fancied him in college I was sure I'd moved on to the lovely Stephen by that stage

Heineken Helen

Jennytree wrote:

Oh god... the memories! Most of my really old stuff is still back in my parents house, gives me something to do when I go back to stay! All the old school reports, and letters from my friends when I was 13 giving out about other girls and the boys that I fancied!

And the best are all the old mix tapes I have, from pirate radio stations I could only listen to when I stuck a hanger out my window with the aerial attached.

Ah, back in the good ol' days

hahahaha... I found some mix tapes too... and ya get the dj coming in at the end of the songs and stuff

eMMI

Heineken Helen wrote:

Hahaha... I always swear I'll organise it too... and of course I never do. Cos I put it back in the wardrobe and say 'I'll do that in a couple of weeks when I get the time' which of course I never get

hehe. what usually happens to me is that I get all the stuff that I'm "going to organise" out but end up spending so much time just going through it and reading everything again and then get really hungry or something so I put it all aside.. and.. yeah, many times all the stuff's a bigger mess after I've put it away.

nfanel

Heineken Helen wrote:

I know what ya mean... I've never been much of a diary person either but when something big happened I felt the need to record it. I found one I kept when I was 11 too and it was fucking hilarious the things I felt necessary to note

i love that kind of stuff...finding old notes, letters, even old calendars, seeing how i used to spend my days...haha.
i've kept a diary since i was @11 and still do...it's a riot to look back now and see what i thought was sooo important back then. "it's funny when things change so much, it's all state of mind!"

Heineken Helen

eMMI wrote:

hehe. what usually happens to me is that I get all the stuff that I'm "going to organise" out but end up spending so much time just going through it and reading everything again and then get really hungry or something so I put it all aside.. and.. yeah, many times all the stuff's a bigger mess after I've put it away.

yep, I've that exact same problem too. It's like I start off with a kinda 'filing system', i.e. three piles: stuff I'm keeping, stuff I'm keeping OUT and wanna look at more, stuff I'm throwing away. But that three piles seem to turn into about 6 piles that I make up as I go along... and by the time I'm done there's just stuff all OVER the place :eek:

Heineken Helen

nfanel wrote:

i love that kind of stuff...finding old notes, letters, even old calendars, seeing how i used to spend my days...haha.
i've kept a diary since i was @11 and still do...it's a riot to look back now and see what i thought was sooo important back then. "it's funny when things change so much, it's all state of mind!"

I really wish I was able to keep a proper diary I'd never find it though

I remember when I got to shake hands with President Mary Robinson when I was about 11/12 and for some reason I felt the need to note the registration number on her car what the fuck?

markymark550

Sian-of-the-dead wrote:

Yeah! I moved house recently and found so much shite i'd collected over the years.

You never know just how much you really accumulate until you move. When I moved from my apartment to the house a couple of months ago, I had about 4 big trash bags of stuff that I never threw away, but didn't really have any use for anymore. I had lived there about 2.5 years and the place wasn't all that big. It's amazing that I was able to keep that much stuff there.

I hate to think what it will be like if my wife and I ever buy another house and have to move again. :eek:

Heineken Helen

markymark550 wrote:

You never know just how much you really accumulate until you move. When I moved from my apartment to the house a couple of months ago, I had about 4 big trash bags of stuff that I never threw away, but didn't really have any use for anymore. I had lived there about 2.5 years and the place wasn't all that big. It's amazing that I was able to keep that much stuff there.

I hate to think what it will be like if my wife and I ever buy another house and have to move again. :eek:

I've wondered about what it would be like if I move... I've a housefull of stuff... very little of it I feel attached to but I'd have to get rid of it somehow

This was all stuff I'd put in the wardrobe after the last move (almost 4 years ago) and I haven't gone near it since

nfanel

Heineken Helen wrote:

I really wish I was able to keep a proper diary I'd never find it though

I remember when I got to shake hands with President Mary Robinson when I was about 11/12 and for some reason I felt the need to note the registration number on her car what the fuck?

lol
and that's what i'm talking about - love finding those weird kind of things!

markymark550

Heineken Helen wrote:

I've wondered about what it would be like if I move... I've a housefull of stuff... very little of it I feel attached to but I'd have to get rid of it somehow

This was all stuff I'd put in the wardrobe after the last move (almost 4 years ago) and I haven't gone near it since

I can't imagine what it would be like, especially with just getting married and having all of these house/kitchen presents along with all of the stuff that each one of us brought from our former residence. That is almost enough to give me a headache......spring cleaning anyone?

Heineken Helen

nfanel wrote:

lol
and that's what i'm talking about - love finding those weird kind of things!

Oh there are much worse things that are too embarrassing to even type

marky, spring cleaning is a brilliant idea. I've been trying to do that for a long time now. My sister and brother left boxes of stuff when they moved out over a year ago though and they still haven't fucking collected them. They're taking up a small corner of the sitting room :( and it looks really messy... but it looks like they'll all be gone within the next week or so

eMMI

Heineken Helen wrote:

yep, I've that exact same problem too. It's like I start off with a kinda 'filing system', i.e. three piles: stuff I'm keeping, stuff I'm keeping OUT and wanna look at more, stuff I'm throwing away. But that three piles seem to turn into about 6 piles that I make up as I go along... and by the time I'm done there's just stuff all OVER the place :eek:

exactly the same here! and after everything's scattered all over the place I feel like I should clean up the whole place.. but I always seem to get distracted by something more fun to do..