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[quote=Anonymous]Gosh, I can still remember the look on my grandmother's face when we were helping her move after my grandfather died and she handed me this project I had built as a child and I threw it right in a garbage bag. She was like "AHHHHH! I loved that! You loved that! You played with that all the time! I touch it and think of you every time I walk by! Don't you want it?"

I told her I loved her and said thank you for watching over it but that I didn't need it. She asked again if I wanted it and I just asked if SHE did...she giggled and begrudgingly said no and we moved on... it made me aware to throw items out in a not- obvious way. I think the post is expensive for mailing items like this (my family send me items from the UK and Canada and it's $$$ and sometimes customs rips into it, roots around and retapes, never packing it back correctly so some items have gotten broken). But after telling them a few times that they didn't have to send items to me, I just ignore it, say thanks and proceed with going through it/throwing it out.

I know I will miss it when it's gone- someone somewhere else in the world remembering and valuing our shared past in that way. When there is no one else to send me useless crap I will actually feel sad and like an official grown-up. I guess then I will send useless crap to people.[/quote]

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