So I have come to realize….probably DUE to living in a cluttered house that I dislike it immensely and would be happy to purge a great deal of the stuff we have.
This then sort of saddened me because I then realized that it was all really just clutter and that there was actually very little in my home (inanimate) that I considered really really special.
This made me sad because I thought that when I do pop my clogs, there really won’t be much around that speaks of ‘me’ to those poor bastards charged with going through said stuff.
Blogs and paperbacks don’t really count do they? Or do they? Are we finally behind the generations that had vast amounts of dishes and cutlery stored away for ‘special’ occasions that no one actually recalls ever being allowed to use? Are we finally behind the generations with collections of Royal Doulton figurines?
Do people still register for stuff like that when they get married?
I don’t even have a hutch to keep such things! And if I did it would probably have Pat’s Drop Ship, Gort and Millennium Falcon in it instead!
I mean, don’t get me wrong..people have bought me special stuff. Pat alone has picked up jewellery and so on that DOES in fact mean a lot to me. My mom goes out of her way to find special books, art, dishes etc..that she feels will resonate with me, but I think because they were given to me, I don’t have the ownership emotionally or something of the objects…they don’t define me. They define how others perceive me.
And then their is the kids stuff. I do have boxes that I keep a selection of art and so on…but I honestly feel very little in guilt when I toss the daily amount of trees killed in the name of elementary school projects.
I also have ‘memory’ boxes for each of them…which are a bit bare…though both Adam and Caity have letters in them from me when they were born and wee and I need to do that for Tara too. This blog should NOT be their only trip down memory lane!
Which brings me to the original thought around this post.
While clearing the clutter, it has come to my notice that we now have amassed a small collection of Adam’s teeth.
Eww or Awww…whichever suits you I guess.
So am wondering…to all of you (3) out there…when do I stop ‘treasuring’ them after the tooth fairy has done her work? I don’t have to keep every single one do I?
With three kids..that is a LOT of teeth!
How many is sentimental and how many is creepy…you tell me.
I’m not there yet, my kids are 2.5, but I lean towards ditching them. Maybe keeping that first tooth, but what do you do with them? That said I still have the positive pregnancy test so take the advice from with woman who kept the pee stick with a grain of salt.
I don’t think I’ve ever considered what I’ll do with the kids’ teeth once they lose them. I think I’d get rid of them but I can see keeping the first one and putting in a keepsake box for them. My mom kept one of her wisdom teeth and I thought it was fascinating to look at when I was growing up. Your kids might like one tooth to look at…or not!
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haha! I’ve had the exact same thought! I am so unsentimental, but I look at these teeth and think … um, can I really just chuck this in the garbage? But then again, do I really want to keep it? who knows! I like to kind of hide it in a “special place” which means that I’ll probably never find them again.
I honestly don’t know for sure what I will do. However, I will say that my mom kept 4 or 5 in total, between my sister and I.
I don’t think I’ll keep the teeth. Although my husband had to put his foot down on the umbilical stumps, so who knows?
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eek – this is going to be hard… I’ll aim for one plastic box of stuff and once it’s full, I’ll start paring it down. sigh… I think I am sentimental.
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HOpe you’re having a happy Twenty – Ten!
um, try 4 kids teeth lol. plus i have my wisdom teeth from 16yr ago when they were pulled.
i was just thinking of this today when #4 brought me a tooth he had come out at school. i would like to toss them all but it seems so wrong. and than i think, what if we need a DNA sample on one of them? horrible thought i know but it was there
My husband receivied all his baby teeth at age 38.
His response was WT@ therefore I don’t keep the baby teeth,
I mean who really is going to care, plus I’m terrified of becoming a
hoarder!!!
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