so i'm a bit of a packrat. in all actuality, it's gotten a lot better because i move so much that there's not much time for me to rathole stuff. and when i move, i tend to throw a lot away. however, there are things i've acquired over my life that i've saved. old books, a bag full of stuffed animals, some of my old baby clothes and blankets and what have you. things i can't see throwing away.

it just so happens though that the reality of my situation is that i'm going to be living in an apartment for a while. apartments just don't have much storage. and i'm using my car to transport thigns at this point.

my mom and i have struggled with this a lot. she is hell bent against keeping this stuff for me. because "my parents never kept any of my stuff." i hesitate to point out that she also had to go through 10 years of therapy to undo what her upbringing did to her. i don't hesitate to point out that i'm pretty sure that every single one of the people i know who are my age have some amount of stuff still at their parents house.

so just now, we went out to look at it all, and i found a box with a bunch of stuff that i really can't see throwing away(my first baby dress, some baby blankets, and anchient copy of "jane eyre" and stuff like that) but i just DO NOT have room for it. she refuses to keep it. so i just said fine, throw it away.

my mom is a great person. but she has no regard whatsoever for sentimental items. it's really frusterating for me, because i've never tried to put burden on her. but at this point in time, she's completely acting out like a 6 year old in response to the way i've "structured" my move. shes finding anything she can possibly stress out about and then acting like a child about it. and it's taking way too much energy to diffuse the situation.


anyway.

do YOU still have anything at your parents house? did they perhaps keep some of your kindergarten drawings? your first shoes? maybe your favorite stuffed animal? or did you have to take everything with you when you left? i'm just curious. :)