How do you deal with the notes, niceties and what nots?

[TxZen]

I have several notes, left on my desk by coworkers, cards (condolences and otherwise), little "Hey thanks" from my actual job that I have noticed is starting to take up a large shoe box. Do y'all keep stuff like this? It's nice but I think I am going to toss this stuff. Good memories, for the most part, but not like my son someday will care...or will he? :confused:

[Jilly]

Things like this from my grandsons go up on the refrigerator or message board until they see them and then into the trash, except for a couple that are too cool to toss.

Everything else, holidays, thank you, birthday, all of it...even recommendations from clients...out it all goes.

I have never regretted throwing away any of it.

[Float On]

I keep what I call a "tickle file" in my desk at work. It's all the notes, cards, etc. I go thru it when I'm feeling blue or about once a year I'll clear out some of the older stuff.

[Tradd]

If you don't want to keep the actual card, etc., then scan it and keep them on your computer. Or take a picture.

[jp1]

I get stuff like that at work from time to time also. Generally I'll stick it up on the wall of my cube. When I move to a new cube I throw most of it away and start fresh. I'm not particularly sentimental so this system works well for me.

[TxZen]

I found a HUGE frame in the back of my closet. Going to make a collage with it. :) Thanks for the ideas!!!

[reader99]

If it makes me feel good but I've had it a while, I'll scan it into my laptop and discard the physical thing.

[Blackdog Lin]

I'm just not sentimental. Enjoy such a thing for a small period of time, then it goes. There is just too much STUFF in our lives, I think, to be able to keep much of it.

[happystuff]

I keep some thing depending on who it is from, what it is, etc. Mostly, though, it ends up in the trash.

Funny, as I type this I just remembered that all the sympathy cards we received when my son died are all in one of three file crates of items. Not sure why I saved them... just did. May eventually talk to the rest of the family about what to do with them.

Hmmm... interesting how things work. I had really totally forgotten about them until this thread.

[Aroha]

I used to keep them for the warm fuzzies. But now I am tossing them for the sake of moving on. I do not want to dwell on the past.

[sweetana3]

Please dont be like my dad. He kept every single piece of paper from 55 years or more. Every card, tax return, note, bill, check, etc. Sometimes many copies of the same thing. Rooms of paper. Neat but worthless. Walls and walls of old books. Thank heaven they were not musty or we would have burned it all. I mean how many people want 1940 agriculture books?

The funny thing is that he hauled all this stuff from Alaska to California in the 80s. It is now going in the dumpster. Out of all of it we got 6 small boxes of family records for history and I kept a couple of baby pictures and their tax return from the year I was born.

[KayLR]

Please dont be like my dad. He kept every single piece of paper from 55 years or more. Every card, tax return, note, bill, check, etc. Sometimes many copies of the same thing. Rooms of paper. Neat but worthless. Walls and walls of old books.

So scary---my husband is this way...he is SO sentimental. He doesn't throw away ANYthing! I have to be stealth about removing clutter. So far I have not ruffled any feathers.

We haven't been married very long. When he moved in with me, he was looking through some boxes of photos and ephemera. There were several photos of children (probably some friend's kids--you know how you give everybody your kids' pics thinking they'll want them) and he didn't even know who they were. Did he toss them? No-o-o-o-o. When I suggested it, he just put it back in the box, end of discussion.

[Teacher Terry]

I keep it for a little while & then throw it away when I am tired of looking at it. I never put it in a box or drawer because then it would start to multiple:|(.