So sweet that I just had to share

[SerendipityCrafts]

Last week we were away to attend DH's son's university graduation. After the grad was over, we drove DH's parents home. His Mom asked him to go through a drawer of his old "stuff" (dating back to 1978).

She wanted him to clean out the drawer, throw out what he didn't want and bring home what he did want and so he sat down to go through "memories" .....

He found trinkets from his class trip to Mexico in 1978, letters from his parents, letters from old girl friends and some other odds and sods .... and then found a small pile of old photographs.

He was flipping through them when he stopped cold, a smile crossed his face and he slowly turned one photo around to show me .... It was a photo of me! Awwwww he kept a photo of me all these years!

I find it incredibly heart warming - especially since we had both gone on to lead separate lives, after the high school grad. Guess he thought enough of me to keep the photo? Funny ... I don't even remember the photo being taken.

I myself tossed all my old BF's letters etc. after I was married the first time. So ladies .... how many of you still have letters and photos of your old boyfriends in some hidden musty dusty spot?

[sparklesweetie]

I never had any letters from a BF. But I do have some pictures - DH still has a few of his ex as well. I actually came across a few about a week ago and thought, "When was he at my house?" Lol.

See, it's stuff like that that makes it worthwhile to keep things others would normally throw out. I have a few letters from my great-grandparents - nothing special in them other than they wrote them. Stuff like that and pictures are things you can never get back - to me it's the most precious way to preserve memories. Ok, off my sappy train now.

[Sh@ks18]

Awww thats soo sweet

I'm the kind of person that seeks and destroys after a breakup, so I don't have any photos or letters from any of my exes anymore. I don't really mourn them though. The ones I want to remember are still my friends, and the others are not and go bury themselves in the sand.

[m_t_rose]

I had all of my old BF stuff in my boyfriend box. I had a whole box dedicated to this practice of keeping old boyfriend stuff, but once I was married I thought it would be inappropriate to bring my boyfriend box into my Dh and my house so I had to get rid of it.

[feb-bride]

I got rid of old boyfriend notes, but I still have pictures. They are in a scrapbook.

[Julz518]

I have everything... notes, letters, pictures, jewelry, etc. I've always been a "lets stay friends" kind of ex, not a search and destroy kind of ex. And so is FH. He has a bunch of that stuff, too (though I don't think it's so much for sentimental reasons as he just keeps EVERYTHING).

We are both friends with a lot of each other's ex's - in fact, as few of them were invited and/or are coming to the wedding! It's amusing now to go back to our yearbooks and stuff and see what we and our then-significant other's wrote .

[KaileK]

i do! eek!

[SerendipityCrafts]

Originally Posted by m_t_rose

once I was married I thought it would be inappropriate to bring my boyfriend box into my Dh and my house so I had to get rid of it.

That is about how I felt too. It just didn't seem "right" to bring these things into "our house" and I couldn't imagine why anyone (ie future kids) would be interested it the stuff after I was gone. I have some pics but that's about it.

[Complicated Woman]

I have some mementos saved...as a kid I liked going through my moms old things, looking at her high school yearbooks and imagining what it would be like, so I figured I needed to have some old things for my kids to poke through, too.

[Heather]

Originally Posted by SerendipityCrafts

I myself tossed all my old BF's letters etc. after I was married the first time. So ladies .... how many of you still have letters and photos of your old boyfriends in some hidden musty dusty spot?

I don't have a lot of letters from my "adult" relationships - mostly cards. I do still probably have every single note in high-school in a box somewhere in my mom's basement. I've saved every card I've ever received from anyone. Feb is going to have to teach me how to scrapbook. All of my photos are in albums. Neither I nor Mike has a problem with it. It's parts of our lives...

[todaysdestinationwedding]

I have to admit...I still have everu picture, letter, note, movie ticket stub etc...pack away in an old box, but I havent looked at them for years.

[m_t_rose]

I still kept some pictures and yearbooks where they wrote cute sayings. Also my ex's were not that significant since I met DH in grade 11. I am also not a pack rat at all. For m most things are if it's not in use it is a waste of space. My sister has all of her old bf stuff in a huge tin in the back of her closet.

Originally Posted by SerendipityCrafts

Last week we were away to attend DH's son's university graduation. After the grad was over, we drove DH's parents home. His Mom asked him to go through a drawer of his old "stuff" (dating back to 1978).

She wanted him to clean out the drawer, throw out what he didn't want and bring home what he did want and so he sat down to go through "memories" .....

He found trinkets from his class trip to Mexico in 1978, letters from his parents, letters from old girl friends and some other odds and sods .... and then found a small pile of old photographs.

He was flipping through them when he stopped cold, a smile crossed his face and he slowly turned one photo around to show me .... It was a photo of me! Awwwww he kept a photo of me all these years!

I find it incredibly heart warming - especially since we had both gone on to lead separate lives, after the high school grad. Guess he thought enough of me to keep the photo? Funny ... I don't even remember the photo being taken.

I myself tossed all my old BF's letters etc. after I was married the first time. So ladies .... how many of you still have letters and photos of your old boyfriends in some hidden musty dusty spot?

I know that I do not have any photos/letters of old b/f's! It seems like everytime I move, I end up losing another piece of my life somehow! I know that I am lucky to have been able to keep my daughters' photos all together in one place, Thank God! Besides, after some of the guys that I dated, and the things that happened in my life....I dont think that I really would want to keep any of their letters or photos!
Im very happy with Rick, and have a beautiful memory book that my sister-in-law created for me, to welcome me into the Stennett Family!
But I do think that it is special if you do keep old letters/photos of any ex that you may still think about from time to time, because after all, there are some of us whose pasts dont haunt them!
Have a beautiful day! Jeanine