Do you keep a memory box with mementos from past relationships?
June 4, 2015 12:30 PM   Subscribe

I'm doing a little spring cleaning and have been moving things into the keep, not-keep piles. I have a memory box full of physical scraps that represent important events in my life. Chief among these are scraps from past relationships.

I keep these things from relationships (notes, cards, pictures) mostly because I can't seem to get rid of them - they were usually given as small presents marking some special occasion - because someone took a lot of time to make these things, and at least at the time of their creation, they meant a lot. That being said, I don't want them around once a relationship ends, so I just stick 'em in a box.

I'm not a sentimental person, and this is about the only place in my life I keep mushy things. It's nice to see that someone loved you, etc. That being said, I could see how someone (a friend, a current girlfriend, a wife?) would think it's weird to keep around tokens of past relationships.

This is entirely an internal dialog. I don't plan on sharing this memory box with anyone else, but I'm curious:

What's your opinion on keeping tokens of past relationships?
posted by lalunamel to Human Relations (2 answers total)

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I do it, but I also keep tokens of everything. I love having shoeboxes full of my past.

I've had partners who freak out about it a little bit, but not too much. I think everyone keeps memories somewhere.
posted by xingcat at 12:32 PM on June 4, 2015


Oh, totally, yes. I have a small collection of cards that I received from one of my exes in particular who is someone who's now a dear friend. That part of our life is over and done with, and has been for 20 years now, and I have absolutely no interest in him romantically - but you will only get the cards he sent me if you're digging me up after my death because I will be buried with them.

Hell, I'm even saving the bridesmaids dress I wore to my BFF's wedding because a) it was her wedding and b) she actually managed to find a dress that didn't look like ass.
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 12:34 PM on June 4, 2015


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