How sentimental are you?

[Calandale]

DD - did you resolve your original issue?

I met an old crazy scarred up wolf today,
and it lead me to wondering.

[DirtDawg]

DD - did you resolve your original issue?

I met an old crazy scarred up wolf today,
and it lead me to wondering.

Yes, I know what to do, now, although a bit more reflection is necessary before I proceed.

How did you know I was a wolf?

[Calandale]

DD - did you resolve your original issue?

I met an old crazy scarred up wolf today,
and it lead me to wondering.

Yes, I know what to do, now, although a bit more reflection is necessary before I proceed.

How did you know I was a wolf?

These things happen.
I don't have to know.
An old Cheyenne.

[Pyraxis]

Or he could have pulled it out of the Questions for God thread. 

["couldbecousin"]

  Ex-hoarder here.  Between getting old enough to feel my mortality, and having
  mouse activity in my apartment and potentially contaminating much of my stuff,
   I've become much less attached to my stuff! 

['andersom']

What a great thread and great subject.

Did you find the right time to smoke the pipe, DD?

['andersom']

  Ex-hoarder here.  Between getting old enough to feel my mortality, and having
  mouse activity in my apartment and potentially contaminating much of my stuff,
   I've become much less attached to my stuff! 

There's a company based in my village, working with elderly people who lose their connection with the world because of dementia. The woman who started it is both a geriatric nurse and an artist. She changed corridors in homes for elderly into nostalgic routes, with pictures that match the world it was when most patients were young. Apparently this activates demented people because it triggers their memories. In the home she started with this project they also try to make individual scrapbooks, so that there can be something the demented person feels secure talking about and thus can connect with their kids or friends.

Throwing everything away may be throwing your whole connection with your past, and with that your connection with the now away.

Yes, most of the stuff I have at home can theoretically go. But there are some things that carry strong, powerful and dear memories. They are part of what made me me. I would not want to miss them.

[Icequeen]

My mother always said keep things that make you feel good, don't keep anything out of a sense of duty or because you feel guilty getting rid of it.

Some may think me strange but I believe things carry "karma","feels" (whatever you want to call it) with them, I don't think I've ever seen them as "just" objects...coffee tastes sweeter in the right cup, but some cups, no matter how nice will always make lousy coffee.

If my memories are good ones, if it makes me feel good...I use it, enjoy it, and keep it for as long as it does. Otherwise I find another caretaker for it...in worse case situations with things that hold memories of illness, grief, stress, or hatred...nothing beats a good cleansing by fire.

['andersom']

My mother always said keep things that make you feel good, don't keep anything out of a sense of duty or because you feel guilty getting rid of it.

Some may think me strange but I believe things carry "karma","feels" (whatever you want to call it) with them, I don't think I've ever seen them as "just" objects...coffee tastes sweeter in the right cup, but some cups, no matter how nice will always make lousy coffee.

If my memories are good ones, if it makes me feel good...I use it, enjoy it, and keep it for as long as it does. Otherwise I find another caretaker for it...in worse case situations with things that hold memories of illness, grief, stress, or hatred...nothing beats a good cleansing by fire.

Yes.

[rock hound]

I'm pretty sentimental. 

[Parts]

My mother always said keep things that make you feel good, don't keep anything out of a sense of duty or because you feel guilty getting rid of it.

Some may think me strange but I believe things carry "karma","feels" (whatever you want to call it) with them, I don't think I've ever seen them as "just" objects...coffee tastes sweeter in the right cup, but some cups, no matter how nice will always make lousy coffee.

If my memories are good ones, if it makes me feel good...I use it, enjoy it, and keep it for as long as it does. Otherwise I find another caretaker for it...in worse case situations with things that hold memories of illness, grief, stress, or hatred...nothing beats a good cleansing by fire.

  

I am extremely sentimental more than anybody I know, one of my brothers does come somewhat close though.   I always say things are people too treat them accordingly  

[Jack]

Not very sentimental. Maybe not at all. 

[Queen Victoria]

Since I know someone (not the PR) will go through my stuff after I'm gone, I have very little sentimentality left.  They're either going to steal it or toss it.

['andersom']

Since I know someone (not the PR) will go through my stuff after I'm gone, I have very little sentimentality left.  They're either going to steal it or toss it.

I have no sentimentality for the time after I am gone. Only when it comes to my connection with the past. My kids may find their own sentimental value in items that I would overlook, and may think that what I hold dear is nothing. That's OK.

When my grandfather died I got a bunch of things, including his books, because they were somewhat in the field of my interest, so I got them. I had not picked them and I would not have picked them. I had never seen him read a book in my entire life. I also got a plastic box he stored bread for the day in for my grandmother and him. I used that box till it was completely worn, because that was an item with sentimental value for me. For another it was a thing to throw away.

[Al Swearegen]

Since I know someone (not the PR) will go through my stuff after I'm gone, I have very little sentimentality left.  They're either going to steal it or toss it.

I have no sentimentality for the time after I am gone. Only when it comes to my connection with the past. My kids may find their own sentimental value in items that I would overlook, and may think that what I hold dear is nothing. That's OK.

When my grandfather died I got a bunch of things, including his books, because they were somewhat in the field of my interest, so I got them. I had not picked them and I would not have picked them. I had never seen him read a book in my entire life. I also got a plastic box he stored bread for the day in for my grandmother and him. I used that box till it was completely worn, because that was an item with sentimental value for me. For another it was a thing to throw away.

I am not sentimenmtal but I am about my children and about Western Australia