So while putting away all of my ornaments from my Christmas tree today, this black box is what I decided must be replaced this year!
I have usually been the one between my husband and myself, that can easily throw or give away old stuff. I've done it plenty of times; after all we cleaned out my husband's parents house, a few years ago and we were forced to throw away plenty of old boxes and repack some of the "treasures" into new boxes.
So why today, as I packed away all of the Christmas tree ornaments and emptied out this old black box with the yellowed tissue paper did I feel a tinge of guilt and sadness as I emptied out the Christmas ornaments from this box and placed them in a new pretty box that I bought after Christmas?
Maybe it's because it belonged to my grandmother who passed away in 1999 and was a Christmas baby herself?
I'm not sure.
Maybe because I'm 60, and sometimes I long for the Christmases past where my grandparents, parents, aunt, uncle, cousins and siblings all came together on Christmas Eve?
I'm not sure.
Maybe it's because I'm 60, and I long for the Christmases where our 2 children were young and so excited for Christmas morning?
Maybe it's all of those feelings...
Here's the new box that I replaced the old black box with...which I put in the recycle bin today.
What is something that you had a hard time throwing away or giving away, but you made yourself do it anyway?
Have a Blessed Day!
January 8, 2019
All original photos taken on my iPhone 8 Plus
Lol Over the years, we are becoming mental and do not want to part with things that store memory, replace the box with a light heart and a successful New Year!
Oh thank you, that's my plan!
Thank you for being here for me, so I can be here for you.
Enjoy your day and stay creative!
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I can understand why the box meant so much to you. What a great memory. Sometimes a trinket and precious memories are all we have left of our family and it makes us sad to think they are not here to celebrate these occasions. 💕
I think it is totally understandable why you struggled to replace that box it may be a simple box but it had so many memories for you
I think we are at an age where we miss some things from when we are younger and its hard to let them go and join them to physical things like the box in this case
Yes letting go isn't easy...I need to make happy new memories of Christmas going forward!
Hugs! I’m attached to things like that too. May new memories fill your new Christmas trinket box💜
Haha, good to hear I'm not the only one!
Yes!!! Because it was your grandmother's box. Something she had for years until you did. It is a part of where you came from. Oh, there is no shame in having guilty feelings about that.
I have gone through many things, too many to recount here that were a part of me, but made no sense to hold on to them, much like the box. This comes from someone who is always giving away things she doesn't use. I shudder at the thought of becoming a pack-rat.
As an aside, your new box is a happy little replacement piece and I am sure you will get many good years of use out of it!
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Thanks for reading my posts, I guess you can tell I've been a little melancholy since the new year! But yes, I bought the new box for half price after Christmas and plan on it being a happy new box to maybe even pass on to my daughter...
I think I get that way every Christmas (especially Holidays) because I live so far from my family and I come from a very large family where everyone has dinner at each others house and their kids are best friends... so somewhere along the line, it started to get hard with kids to go home and disrupt everything going on in their lives. Especially living overseas... so, I sometimes get feeling sorry for myself for missing things. :(
In the end, it really is fine and I see everyone all the time, but, there are things and times I cannot get back.
Sigh. Life.
I'm not very good at parting with things that bring back good memories of the past. I probably would have kept it...and my husband would have been shaking his head. I need to be better about that.
Well, I give my mom grief over the things she has kept way beyond their usefulness!
Maybe this will be the year that I get better about it. :)
Good luck with that!
:)
Oh yes I totally get this. I have somewhat recently cleaned out Gramps house after he passed. I have
too manylots of his stuff now including table and chairs, tools, you name it. It feels almost wrong to get rid of (donate) so much of his stuff. I struggle with each piece now. However, I have found that taking photos of the objects does help to lessen the pain.Oh my goodness, you should see how many tools and gadgets my husband kept from his father's garage and workshop. Many of them are in boxes in a storage unit! That's a great idea about taking photos of the objects before you sell them or give them away! Thanks @old-guy-photos.
The clearest memories I have of Christmas are from the trinkets in my grandmother's house. She kept them well into her 80s and I felt like I was seeing them as a three year old again. People are attached to objects for what they represent not for how useful they are. For they young ones these relics tell them where they came from. But i understand parting.
Yes, these things do take us back to our childhood or young adulthood. The smell of a bar of ivory soap - if they still make them - would instantly remind me of taking a bath at my grandmother's house when I would spend the night! So smells also take me way back!
Very tough. We have an old artificial Christmas tree. It is becoming more bare each time we put it up. It is the same tree we have had since the kids were small. My younger son came home from college this year and set up the tree while my wife and I were working before the holiday. Another year went by and we did not throw away this sad tree.
Yes, my MIL gave us her artificial Christmas tree when we were first married and when we decided it was worn out, we bought a new one. She made us bring the old tree back to her husband's workshop in her backyard and store it there because she didn't want to give it away since it had been their last Christmas tree together before he passed in 1989.
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