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The end of an era . . .
shmokes:
If I asked her outright whether I should sell or keep them, she would say keep them. However, if I asked her whether I should keep or throw away the scraps after cutting shapes from colored paper, she would absolutely be in favor of keeping the scraps.
She's not attached to them and has never been involved in, or taken an interest in buying new Pez at the store. Even when they were on display she was explicitly disallowed from interacting with them (think: dominoes). And, frankly, at this age memories are short. She's five and a half now and for the last fifteen months they've been in storage.
Figured I should get a photo with her in it, though, so like, "That's me when I was five and my dad had a ridiculously large Pez collection."
edit: Oh yeah . . . and thanks. :)
yotsuya:
I struggle with similar feelings, Shmokes. I'm a pack rat by nature, so every few years I go though my stuff and try to clear out things I haven't touched in between cleanings. More often than not, though, I find myself holding on to things I should just let go.
Good luck with this.
shmokes:
Thanks. I admit, I'm sometimes putting on a brave face. I definitely look at this and say, "Jesus . . . look at this collection . . . should I really be doing this?" But there are, and always will be, a million things that I will look back on and think, "Had I done that differently . . . ." Attempting to anticipate my future attitudes is probably a mostly useless exercise. I try to keep myself from being too timid, and from trying to play everything too safe. If the best reason I can come up with for keeping the collection is that someday I might wish I had, I think I probably haven't identified a powerful reason for keeping it. And while sometimes I'll make the wrong choice, in general I think that kind of thinking weighs you down . . . keeps you from moving forward and gaining newer richer experiences.
And so on . . .
shmokes:
No turning back now. The auction is listed.
HaRuMaN:
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