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I love stuff and i love hanging onto things. I love that i have a stack of letters my friends and i wrote and passed back and forth in class at 13 years old. I love that i still have the fake menu my best friend and i made when we were 8 for our fake restaurant that only served bug-based dishes. I love that i have a drunk love note scrawled on toilet paper at 3 in the morning in 2012. seemingly meaningless things like this from my past help remind me that I’ve actually led a wonderfully full life despite often feeling like I’ve not done enough.
Jan 29, 2025

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also who doesnt keep every birthday card you've been given?????
Jan 29, 2025
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ugh i have a container full of receipts from restaurants, crumpled movie tickets, paper wristbands from one-off events. love looking through it!
Jan 29, 2025
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Omg yes! I was shocked to find out people don't keep every birthday card they were sent, I was like what do you mean you throw it in the bin after ????
Jan 29, 2025
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The exact reason I started a junk journal. I love to keep little things like receipts, stickers, labels, and whatnot.
Jan 29, 2025
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Please post that menu!
Jan 29, 2025

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over the past year i started collecting little things from days out with my friends or family or whatever. my room is COVERED in different receipts, packaging from stuff i've bought, postcards, birthday cards, and not just paper stuff, also things like rocks or little toys we've found or an empty bottle of jack daniels from my birthday last year which i mixed with kopparberg (don't ask me why because i don't know :') ) it's all on display in my room and i love my room for that. i'm surrounded by fond memories with those i love even if i can't exactly remember what some silly label was from or something, i know it's from something i enjoyed enough to stick it on my corkboard or something.
Jun 3, 2025
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I was actually just thinking about this again earlier today. I love that it’s like I’m carrying pieces of all the people I’ve loved throughout all the lifetimes it feels like we live in just one, simply by picking up all these pieces of others to make into our whole self. Even the things I’ve gathered from people I don’t talk to anymore feel so special because once they meant so much to me and the love from that version of me and them lives on. I say ā€œyou’re a peach,ā€ when someone does something helpful for me because a childhood friend of mine once said the same thing to me. I’ve always written things like 7s and Zs with the line through the middle because the student teacher my class had in 1st grade was also in college for science and wrote them like that, and I’ve done it ever since. I grow marigolds in my garden every year because of the neighbor I had growing up who would let me help her garden when I was a kid even when she was going through chemo, and now I love the smell. I love punk goes rock/pop because of my older brother; he’s also the reason I learned to play guitar. The vanilla lotion that I wear because a friend who was probably the closest I’ll have in my lifetime wore it. I also love the reverse. I know I’ve influenced my friend’s jewelry. I know one friend started wearing purple mascara because I do. I’ve influenced several people’s fragrances, or shoe/purse choices. I love to think that whenever they put on something or say something that they got from me that they think of me fondly.
Jun 3, 2025
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take that little trip down memory lane. look through those photos. read through that old notebook. maybe it’s junk but maybe it’s special
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