City - Warminster State - ONTARIO Country - Canada
About
Here's the thing. We carry certain objects around with us for years and yet they have no real purpose. Somehow you can't throw it away or you must have it in your purse or wallet at all times. I thought if some people could join me in this project we might learn more about each other... and laugh at some of our needful things that make us who we are. This is a one-eyed mouse that my x-husband brought home with him one night 32 years ago. He was a towtruck driver and this was the toy of a baby that died in a horrible car accident. He never knew why he brought it home and I don't know why I kept it so long. The sock was worn by both my kids and it has it's own little case I keep it in for 26 years now. The dagger my parents purchased in Spain 40 years ago and I've carried it around for 30. I find it very attractive. That is a tuft of my daughters hair before it turned brown. As you see it was cut in 1995. The tooth was the first molar I lost as an adult. Don't ask, I have no idea why I kept it and why, after I took a picture of it, I put it back in it's place. The slip of paper is half of my mother's and my immigration landing papers when we immigrated from Germany in 1968. I must have kept it because of my mother's signature. It has always been in my wallet... Why? I don't know. So lets see 6 needful things you've hung on to for strange reasons. I had fun, I hope you will too.
An amazing composition, I'm sure you were very nostalgic - perhaps facing a new 'chapter' in our life - I wonder what special memento will add to this collection from the wedding. I don't carry much round as such, but I do have very special things, and sometimes they are quite silly and you wonder why you kept them, and why you still hang on to them Margaret
At first glance, this looked like one really mean mouse with a sword. After reading the "about" section, it reminds me of several things that my wife always hangs onto. She never throws anything away. When my son was 3 months old, we went to Disney World. Feeling guilty for leaving him with a sitter, we bought him a Mickey Mouse. My boy kept it with him always until he turned 10. Now my wife has it stored away along with every card I've ever given her. I tell her to trash it all, takes up too much room, but she always wins out. Thanks for sharing, Interesting set up and excellent composition. My other hobby is genealogy and certain things kept over time is extremely valuable, like your immigration records from Germany. It shows a record of your family history, and that in itself is very much worth holding onto. Best wishes, Michael
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{K:22586} 2/23/2005
