Fancy becoming emotionally attached to a pair of Jeans...

by The Rebel 6 Replies latest jw friends

  • The Rebel
    The Rebel

    and it was with great sadness that today my favorite pair of dirty denim, Armani jeans were thrown in the bin. They cost me £260 to purchase, and were value for money, as they were worn for many years and together we shared some wonderful occasions.They were stitched on numerous occasions, and loving repaired. But today, and to my wife's relief I finally binned my Amani Jeans. (My wife always thought I a grown man wearing a pair of designer jeans with designer patches looked silly)

    i think when I look at my material possessions, I am attached to some crazy things, I still have my childhood gollywog, he is in a terrible state of disfigurement with no eyes,no legs and now white cotton wool for a face with a deformed lip...but I simply can't throw him away.

    Do you have any material possessions that are of only sentimental value. I think these are our true material possessions...

  • Tallon
    Tallon

    Commiserations, The Rebel.

    I still have my 'christening 'cup', given to me by one of my uncle's when I was christened over 50 years ago.

    I will never part with it.

  • scratchme1010
    scratchme1010

    Do you have any material possessions that are of only sentimental value. I think these are our true material possessions...

    I have a personal address book that I got in 1980. It has names and phone numbers of people I don't even remember.

  • zeb
    zeb

    Armani jeans thrown away. Hmph! what you never had then framed..?

  • Xanthippe
    Xanthippe

    Fancy becoming emotionally attached to a pair of Jeans

    Depends who's wearing them.

  • NVR2L8
    NVR2L8

    I have 2 items from my dad: a mechanic's ball hammer and a thermometer you hang in the shop as advertising. Both items are more than 50 years old and they remind me of how hard my dad worked to provide for our family.

  • The Rebel
    The Rebel

    " O" I wish I still had some of my childhood possessions. I owned model figures of " Hoss, Ben and Joe" from Bonanza, which today would be worth a small fortune.Today i would get such joyful memories reading my collection of Watford football club programs. Each match I attended was calculated, because my paper round job required getting up at at 6 in the morning seven days a week, yet it didn't cover a ticket to the match, a programe and the buss journey. So I usually sacrificed the buss and walked 50 minutes to the match and 50 minutes home afterwards so I was able to buy the match program.

    I think from this thread we should be careful what we throw away. Or at least I won't be so strict on my boy, when we discard his old memorabilia.

    p.s having a newspaper round as a kid, helped me with the initiative to window clean at 15, and I will teach my boy when he is 13 to earn his pocket money.

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