> > NEVER throw away, delete, or get rid of something you've written. No matter how inconsequential or embarrassing it may seem, it almost always comes back to haunt you. Years later, you say to yourself, "I vaguely remember writing something about that. I wonder where it is." You spend hours searching for it, only to remember that you shredded it in a spree of house cleaning.
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> > Ell"Keeper of things"myruh
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> I agree with you about that. I have kept almost every poem and story I've ever written. There are over 400 poems in various binders in my room...lol. Hmm...I keep everything, too. I still have my kindergarten journal and other grade school projects that I keep in shirt boxes. Someday when I'm a published author, somebody might want that stuff and I could give it to someone who admires me.
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> ~Den-"hope it's just not wishful thinking"Kara

After you become president, or win an Academy Award, or a Pulitzer Prize, all of that stuff will be valuable.

As for keeping everything, that's a great idea. I was born in 1933 and I wish I'd started keeping everything as soon as I was born. Can you imagine the value of the toys that I had back then? Even a baby bed or highchair from the early 1930's would be valuable. Toy trains, cars, trucks, games, cap pistols and holsters, building blocks etc. would bring high prices. They said I had a tricycle in 1936. It was given to me by the mother of an older kid who outgrew it. It might be 70 years old -- if I still had it. Even the bicycle I bought after the war would be worth ten times what I paid for it.
That's water under the bridge. But I still have the steel-wheeled roller scates that my sister used in the late 1940's. I wouldn't part with them for anything.

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Howard