AngelonaWing Posted November 15, 2008 Report Posted November 15, 2008 how many of you have saved them? I am thinking of tossing them. I have no contacts with any folks that I went to School with. Quote
applepansy Posted November 15, 2008 Posted November 15, 2008 · Hidden Hidden I still have mine. . .graduated 1976. We have duplicates even because hubby went to the same High School. I think the reasons for keeping them or not are individual. One day mine will go away. I'm sure my posterity doesn't need to read all the "call this summer" things. LOL I am still in contact with some from high school. . .not many though. applepansy
Honor Posted November 15, 2008 Report Posted November 15, 2008 I turn into a pack rat when it comes to things from my past, finding it really hard to get rid of things that are "my history". I didn't even really enjoy high school, never had any wish to go back and never liked the pictures of me that may have made it into the pages of the year book, but I still lug them around. I guess I just remember how I loved (and still do) looking through things like that of my mothers and realizing that she wasn't always JUST my mother. My son probably won't have any interest in things like that just because I'm inclined to hope he does, but I imagine being asked where they are and shudder at the thought of saying, "Oh, I threw them out." If my son doesn't care, he can toss them out when I die. Until then, they make great hard surfaces to write on when we're playing games with a group. Quote
AngelonaWing Posted November 16, 2008 Author Report Posted November 16, 2008 I have no grand kids.... and my son doesn't much care about them. after 30 years of them in my book case I am getting tired of looking at them. Quote
checkerboy Posted November 16, 2008 Report Posted November 16, 2008 I actually have started talking to a lot of my old friends through Facebook but I keep mine around not because of the friends but the memories seeing the old pics bring back. I am horrible about nostalgia and sometimes can spend hours just reminiscing. Quote
Heavenguard Posted November 16, 2008 Report Posted November 16, 2008 You can pack them (or one) away in a box and tuck them into a corner in the closet. You might appreciate keeping them in another 20 or 30 years. Quote
pam Posted December 18, 2008 Report Posted December 18, 2008 I just found this thread. I have kept all of mine. Every now and then I get back in touch with someone from high school and we talk memories. Nice to have those books handy. Quote
Iggy Posted December 18, 2008 Report Posted December 18, 2008 I wish I had mine. I was storing my belongings with my oldest brother, and he up and left everything when he moved out of his house. He continued to accept my monthly payments to him for storing my things, and never told me he no longer had them. Included in all of that was my birth certificate, pictures I had taken over the years, my year books (from grade school, jr high and high school), report cards, awards from school and seminary, etc. Oh well. Stuff is stuff. I held a grudge against him for 20 years- didn't do me one bit of good either. Still, back to topic - wish I had mine. Quote
Hemidakota Posted December 18, 2008 Report Posted December 18, 2008 Neither do I keep them, saved them, or bother reading someone else's bio. Quote
Gwen Posted December 18, 2008 Report Posted December 18, 2008 i didn't like high school. i keep mine (i only have 3, one from elm, middle, and high) only because i remember going in the upstairs room of my grandma's house where she kept that kind of things from her kids. i have memories of looking through my dad's with my siblings. i never cared about what ppl wrote to him. but looking at all the pics and the styles of that time, how schools have changed in focus, etc. i figure my kids will enjoy laughing at my generation one day. and it's proof to them i survived high school, living the values tought by the church no less. just in case they ever think i don't understand. lol Quote
NeuroTypical Posted December 18, 2008 Report Posted December 18, 2008 I really value my mother's yearbooks from the '50's. It's very funny to see how many people used the word "swell", and they weren't joking. Like a lot of others, I just don't have many good memories from those years, and I'm close to maybe 2 or 3 people in those books. But someday my kids might get a kick out of what's in them, so I don't throw them away. LM Quote
BenRaines Posted December 18, 2008 Report Posted December 18, 2008 I still have mine and plan on keeping them. 36 years ago I graduated from high school. Ben Raines Quote
AngelonaWing Posted December 18, 2008 Author Report Posted December 18, 2008 I still have them Dust is growing on them now. Quote
Palerider Posted December 19, 2008 Report Posted December 19, 2008 I still have all of mine.....kinda neat to go thru them.....:) Quote
Palerider Posted December 19, 2008 Report Posted December 19, 2008 I just found this thread. I have kept all of mine. Every now and then I get back in touch with someone from high school and we talk memories. Nice to have those books handy. you mean they had yearbooks back in your day....:D:cool: Quote
pam Posted December 19, 2008 Report Posted December 19, 2008 Pale shut up...Please? There I said please. Quote
RachelleDrew Posted December 19, 2008 Report Posted December 19, 2008 I still have all of mine, high school was my glory days to be frank. I hang out mostly with people who I went to high school with. Quote
Prodigal_Son Posted December 19, 2008 Report Posted December 19, 2008 I hated high school... but my kids just LOVE to go through our old yearbooks. That's the only reason they're still accounted for... Quote
Palerider Posted December 19, 2008 Report Posted December 19, 2008 Pale shut up...Please? There I said please. :p:p:p......nope...... Quote
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