Thrown away: The stuff you loved and lost.Smash Wogan writes, "we all love our Mums, but we all know that Mums can be cunts, throwing out our carefully hoarded crap that we know is going to be worth millions some day."
What priceless junk have you lost because someone just threw it out?
Zero points for "all my porn". Unless it was particularly good porn...
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chthonic, Thu 14 Aug 2008, 16:32)
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Pah! everything really.Due to my mothers inability to pick a good-un on the husband front meant that we moved around a lot as kids, that coupled with her hatred of mess meant that I never got to keep things for long.
I have however, managed to keep some mementos since moving out many moons ago and still have them, like my records from my youth.
My bezzie mate was an only child and until recently, her mother had kept her bedroom and all her things from childhood together. My mate is in her 40's for God's sake.
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girlinthehole, Thu 14 Aug 2008, 19:19,
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It's a fine line.Either they keep everything as it was or they throw out things that you loved.
Which one is worse?
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The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Thu 14 Aug 2008, 19:40,
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..Or worse still, both.Aka they keep the room, but "re-organise" the stuff. Its some Freudian control-freak urge to tinker with your personality, through the symbolic proxy of your stuff, embarked on with military force once youre not there to divebomb across the doorway, sobbing howls of despair.
My Mum is a veteran of this - every uni holiday I'd have to evict the LACY THINGS and TEDDY BEARS she'd seen fit to invade my room with, and salvage books/CDs from the garage.
The specific problem here being the expectations never settled well on the offspring - I hated dresses and pulled the heads of all the Sindy dolls ever bought for me as a kid. Later I liked bikes, horrible music and computers. Poor Mum wanted a nice daughter she could dress up in homemade frilly victorian dresses.
Note - packing your kid off to school in said frilly victorian monstrosity will leave them (a) bullied and ostracised (b) rabidly despising such items with even more vehemance. This is Not The Waaay... *shivers on couch sweating at Repressed Memories*
So in ze childs absence ze proxy-chi represented by her stuff gets zee remodellink. Eet must be ze obsessive clingy-parent thing, yes? and ees suprisingly common. A girl at work, after moving out, returned to find her room re-decked as a shrine to Disney. She *hates* Disney :(
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