So far, I have a kitchen sized trash bag filled with old letters. Many more to go through. Keeping some treasures! I sent a photo of one card to a friend who had sent it. One letter came from a friend at school who had tried to call me at home without success. She closed out the letter by saying, "I will see you tomorrow in school."
I have sooo many letters from local friends! The effort was more intentional. One friend would practice her typing as she wrote to me.
The only thing that bothers me about tossing them is losing a part of history. That's one reason I am saving all postcards.
@johnfalconer I feel like I am keeping a lot. At a minimum, I am keeping letters that represent each friend. Or, if there is something of interest being communicated. Other than boys! I had one friend who traveled all over, which I had forgotten. She has some interesting letters and postcards.
My aunt of 95 wrote me often while I was in college. My cousin asked me to bring the letters when we next visit.
Another HS friend, who was also my college roommate, recently lost her husband. When she gets home from her trip, I will share her letters.
I even came across a letter my brother wrote to me in college! Now THAT is a treasure!
My mom wrote me when I first left for school and told me letters would be few and far between! I am saving all of hers, of course.
It will be bundle that my kids can easily toss when I am no longer here.
OH My Goodness, Danette... I have, probably, every letter I ever received! I treasure the childish exchanges between my grandmother and me (I was her namesake), and, to me, every letter is a diary entry! Of course in my collages, I like using writing and text, so I've drawn from that for artistic purposes, and I've even bought (sometimes) bundles of old letters vis ebay, meant to use them in collage, but ended up reading them, and what a saga some have held! Ours is the last generation to have an accumulation of written notes and letters! I consider them priceless, and wince at the thought of ridding yourself of them! Same, too, when I hear people are throwing out photos...because they don't know the people in them. To my mind, that's when you make up a story and create something new with it! (I have a daughter who's more interested in the old letters than in silver and china! Those words paint pictures!
My aunt of 95 wrote me often while I was in college. My cousin asked me to bring the letters when we next visit.
Another HS friend, who was also my college roommate, recently lost her husband. When she gets home from her trip, I will share her letters.
I even came across a letter my brother wrote to me in college! Now THAT is a treasure!
My mom wrote me when I first left for school and told me letters would be few and far between! I am saving all of hers, of course.
It will be bundle that my kids can easily toss when I am no longer here.