Do you hold onto things even if that person left?

I keep the pictures and screenshots until they don't mean much to me anymore, then I delete them. The gifts tho, if they serve me a purpose I'm gonna keep them forever cuz idc   1 reply

Yeah. I still keep the plushy from my ex. I also keep the pictures. Unless it ended really, really, bad I don't see a point in getting rid of stuff. Especially if I like the stuff (like the plushy)   reply

You mean exes? Each time I broke up with a guy they straight up turned into stalkers, so no. I kept one plushy, because it wasn’t its fault that the person who gave it to me was a weirdo.   reply

Definitely espically if it had value to it or it was like a hand written card or something I’ll delete screenshots but I’ll keep almost everything they gave and just stores it in a box like if it’s cards or mementos or rings or if it’s too big just try to not associate that thing with that person   reply

Considering that I changed my number three times after high school. Yeah I got nothing.   1 reply

no i delete them from my memory and everywhere else, i gaslight myself that everything was just my dream and i never met them in the first place (tw dont do this..i have a very hard time distinguishing which is a dream and which is not ;-;)   reply

I'm not the kind of person people gravitate towards generally, online or irl. So when someone gives me their time, or anything of sentimental value, I keep those conversations, bus tickets, stubs, and photos, even when we've parted ways. It's a privilege that I've only insofar encountered people who've largely given me good memories, too. If they ......   reply

My whole room consists of gifts/trinkets/plushies I got from various people (that includes my ex and ppl I don't talk to anymore. ) I don't really attach the object to them though.   reply

Yup! Certified horder! Still mad to this day my dad lost my mom's ashes in a storage unit when I was little and we had a move from the islands back to the states.... But other sentimental things I haven't lost: my best friend gave me a birthday card on my 18th birthday with a burger on it because they know i love burgers, i still have that. I have ......   reply

5 months ago I learned that I’m the type of person to erase someone from my life. Sentimental letters, photos, and all of the like. But if it’s a pretty big gift then I would keep it, if it’s trinkets it’s going in the trash. Unfortunately I had then made up with this person a few weeks later after I had already gotten rid of some of the th......   reply