I have a box full of trinkets and notes that were passed between me and my girlfriend(s) from my school days. But, I also have a bunch of other stuff in said box that aren't related to past loves. So I just file all of it under "miscellaneous memories".
I use to have a drawer full of stuff from my first girlfriend and a few things from my second. However the second ended poorly and as time goes by I am actively getting rid of those things.
As for my first. I used to treat them as great artifacts. We went to the movies alooooooot and so I have ticket stubs of times and dates of all the movies we saw. For the entire year we were together.
However alot of time has past. I have a few nice actual gifts. I cherish and will keep. Sadly my wallet she bought for my birthday is dead and had to replace over Christmas. Ill keep the gifts.
I have whole boxes of things given to me from past relationships, it's probably not very healthy to keep it all. The first person gave me a little talking Pikachu though.
Sit down, have a whiskey, I'll tell you all about it... [low jazz, clinking glasses] I first saw her on Zero Hub in 20X3, the day of the space-wars... She was [insert Raymond Chandler epithet] like a priest in a hyperspace jump... [cut to flashback] Emma! Don't die on me, Emma! Two weeks from retirement.... [fade out]
- now all's I got is this scar - right where the phaser blast hit me - that's all I've got left of her... but enough about me, where's that drink...
I have a picture frame with 3 or 4 pictures in it, and she'd wrote on the back. Due to the writing it's not something I can give to a charity shop, and I wouldn't wanna throw it away tbh, seems a waste. That's about it, even though we were together a year she didn't buy me any gifts. Oh well.
I used to have like two full page double-sided letters she wrote me when after I broke up with her. I think I tossed them when I moved out of my Mom's place though.
Nope, just weird memories of how I felt like shit back then... And I guess some song lyrics. Damn, I wish I was better at writing back then, I was really emotional
The only one I would have from my first girlfriend is a picture, and keeping that would have been fucking infinitely creepy.
So, no.
Yeah, that's a careful line to walk. I can at least feel not creepy about keeping a receipt, because it's less personal, and it's more a memento of the event of going on a first date than focusing on the former girlfriend herself. I would feel megacreepy if I kept a picture of her or a note she sent me or anything.
Really? Maybe I'm weird, but that doesn't come off creepy at all to me. I mean, as long as you don't have the picture next to your bed or something. I have a bunch of sentimental shit from my last relationship packed up in a box in my closet. I don't know why I'd get rid of it all. Some of it is attached to nice memories, even if the relationship ended poorly.
The first person I dated was in high school, which continued through college and turned into marriage, 7 years total. She very abruptly left me a little over a month ago, divorce and all . I have my ring and kept a frame full of pictures of her, and our marriage certificate. I don't know how long I'll hold onto those things.
Honestly, I'm sure there are little mementos around from most of the girls I've dated. I'm not a hoarder at all, but there are always so many little things that get acquired when you're dating someone that they tend to lie around somewhere forgotten to be found randomly. I have a really keen memory so I can probably think back and remember every girl I've ever dated, so it applies a lot of context when I stumble upon random concert tickets, movie tickets, bar/nightclub wristbands, etc. Usually I throw them out.
As far as serious girlfriends go, I've only had two serious (long term and committed) relationships. From the first one I still have a bottle of cologne she bought me which I actually still wear, I had to ironically wrack my brain a bit to remember how long I've had it now and when she bought it for me- I think I've had it for about three years now, I'm sure there are more random bits around other than that but that's the most salient one.
Just the emails and he nude photos attached to them.
I never have/do clean out my gmail box and had a girlfriend who went through my box and found pictures my previous ex had sent me of her giving me head. She found them on a night I was out drinking with my friends and drank entirely too much and stayed at my friend's place and had my cell phone die. Between the hangover and the drama, that next day when I went home was not a fun day.
Two train tickets and and an origami boat from Valentine's (which I had to finish for her.) I don't consider myself to be very sentimental but given the lack of relationships of any kind I'd like to have something nice to hold on to. Also I doubt I'd get into another relationship at all so I doubt anyone would mind.
My first girlfriend bought me a Hungry Hungry Hippos set that I still had. I am pretty sure after a month or two though I did a sweep of my stuff and threw away stuff I kept from her.
I took her photo on one of those disposable cameras. I just never got the thing developed so in a weird way, the only thing I have left of her is trapped in my camera
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