Are you a sentimental type of person?

[ChrisCountryGir]

I don't call myself sentimental at all. I'm not into taking pictures, writing a journal or making a scrapbook or any other activity to "preserve" the memory. I also don't believe in keeping anything stored in boxes, filing cabinets or rubbermaid storage tubs except for seasonal items and *important* papers. I just don't see a point of keeping things that is just going to be stored away in some type of container that I don't plan on using or look at in the near future. I don't like clutter either.

I've thrown away or donated a lot of stuff that people consider "sentimental" like my high school diploma, pictures, my baby book, stuff that I recieved on "special events" like my 1st Communion and most of my childhood stuff like toys, books & stuffed animals. The 2 things that I've kept from my younger days of being a child and a teenager is a stuffed animal cat and a doll cradle.

[Sevenseas]

I support animal rights so I am obviously sentimental by definition. /sarcasm

No, I don't consider myself sentimental. Then again I think the word 'sentimental' is problematic because via its negative connotation it implies that having strong emotions is a bad thing. If someone starts to cry every time they see a pretty bird fly in the sky or when remembering their first bike, I think that's admirable.

[Sevenseas]

But I think the word you may have been going for with your post is 'nostalgic' more than sentimental, since you were talking only about preserving old items.

[ginkgo]

Well according to a very famous psychologist in history, you have a high degree of mental wellness. You care more about the present, than the past. A very famous American psychologist, Abraham Maslow (1908-1970), said "I can feel guilty about the past, apprehensive about the future, but only in the present can I act. The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness."

But you can continue to advance so you can experience perfect peace and limitless happiness. What is Enlightenment (http://www.goarticles.com/cgi-bin/showa.cgi?C=439643)

[karenlovessnow]

I thought I was sentimental, but now that you have me thinking about it, I'm not so sure. So here's my story and you can decide for yourself.
I love memorabilia, I'm just really bad at keeping precious items safe/preserved. I always seem to misplace the lockets of hair, special drawings that the kids made, etc. etc. I even managed to let my mom's wedding band slip off my finger never to be found again. So while these things are important to me and have special meaning, apparently they are not important enough for me to have taken enough care of them so that they are still around. :( And that makes me sad. I am definitely a very emotional person whose feelings run deep. I connect emotionally with just about everyone I meet.

[Tofu-N-Sprouts]

I am very sentimental (or nostalgic or super-emotional) in many ways, yet I have learned when "nostalgia" becomes "dust-catching-clutter" too... I dumped hundreds of old photos and scrapbooks and bits of memorabilia when I remodeled, because I would no longer have room for it - and I didn't feel bad at all - I might have several years ago, to be sure... I definitely kept what was REEEEEEEEEALLY important to me, though in 10 years that may change too, who knows.

[HandcuffedAngel]

I certainly am. I keep anything and everything. I still wear clothes that I hijacked from exes I dated years ago.

I keep a camera in my purse as well.

[Shantih]

Hmm, I can be about some things. If I have an irreparable argument with a friend or partner I just throw away everything to do with them and don't really give a crap, and I don't hang on to stuff from friends unless it's really meaningful to me.

But then again, I keep a cuddly Simba in my bed that my dad brought me when I was 5, that day was the last time I ever saw him. And I just love that raggedy lion, so shh :o

I have a diary but I don't write very often, only when really upsetting things are happening and I have to let it out somehow.

[troub]

yeah.

memories are the scribblings of our experiences.
many items are the icons of our memories, and therefor the icons of our experiences.

Someone may look at this pocket knife and think it's just an old pocket knife, and they would be right.
But when I look at the pocket knife, I think of how it was the last thing my father gave me before he died.
And so the simple pocket knife becomes an icon of the memories of my father.
The very definition of something with "sentimental value".

[Poppy]

No, I am not sentimental about things. I'm the mom who throws out the construction paper Christmas ornaments the kids made in school (after the holidays, of course!). I love some old things - a family ring, some antique cobalt bottles, but most of what has been handed down to me has been replaced over time, with things that are more efficient. I don't collect much stuff and I can't abide knick-knacks or most trip souvenirs.

[Gnome Chomsky]

What do we mean by "sentiment"?

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