losing highly sentimental things....

[GODDESS6]

Originally Posted by stevierocks87

Okay, I need to vent about something.....

So, my Dad is selling our house and he is moving to KY and I am staying in Atlanta to go to college. He was painting our spare bedroom and I had this cariciture (sp?) of me and my best friend Kevin sitting on the bed. Kevin was my best friend from about 2nd to 7th grade and it was the ONLY image of I had of the two of us together....it was drawn at a booth at Underground Atlanta in '98 I think- we went down there for my birthday....

So, I noticed it wasn't there anymore and I asked my dad where he put it, and he told me that he got paint on it and THREW IT AWAY , and then turned it around to make it my fault because I "leave my stuff all over the house and expect him to move it". He is such a f***** ass!!!!

I could just cry. and I know I can't do a f***** thing about it because it is GONE. I guess some people don't understand the concept of how some things are VERY important to people.

as part of the grieving process, does anyone have any stories of losing highly sentimental things? Please share.......

adam

i can relate, when i was in 10th grade, back in 1984 (wow i am old ) my boyfriend at the time gave me a rumours tourbook, he brought it to school for me~ i had always kept it at home, but this 1 day i had brought it to school to use it to draw a pic of stevie from it for art class~ i put it in my locker just for lunch period, god forbid something get spilled on it~ well needless to say i was in lunch for like 20 mins & decided to go back to my locker~ guess what... someone had broken into it & stole my tourbook, along w/ my leather jacket & panties,,,i know what you are thinking, but my folks were divorced & i would spend half the week w/ 1 parent & the other half w/ the other, so i was in transition & had gotten some new clothes & was just taking them from 1 home to the other, now the leather jacket could be replaced, but at the time, there was no such thing as ebay & my tourbook was irreplacable to me ( i have since replaced it thru ebay) but it took like 20 yrs & i just couldn't believe someone would be so cruel to steal my stevie!!! ~ & why the panties...?, i don't wanna know~

sorry to hear of your drawing being tossed, i am very sentimental about things, i totally understand how you feel ~

[wondergirl9847]

Your post cracked me up!! Not the tourbook (I understand that, that's horrible!! ), but the panties part. I don't wanna know, either.

I had my wallet stolen in high school and they took it to the boys bathroom and shoved it in the toilet. Some people are just dumba$$es.

Adam, I'm sorry about your caricature.

I don't have a ton of sentimental stuff. My teddy bear I've had since I was 2 that I still have...if anything happened to Teddy...I'd be devastated. He's my oldest possession.

[irishgrl]

when I first moved to the town Im in now, all I had was 1 suitcase and my jewelry box. I had just been terrorized by my mother in law who basically kept me prisoner in her car driving down mountain roads (anyone know where Quincy CA is? the feather river canyon in early spring still has 5ft snow and I was afraid she would dump me in the river) She pulled out half the hair on my head and we were punching each other in the front seat of the car...I was 5mo pregnant, with a 3 1/2 yr old. When I told my husband about it, he confronted his parents who kicked us out of their house. We went to Oroville and asked for help from the Salvation Army. We got a room but my husband took off with my car and left me at the motel. He never came back. My inlaws had all my stuff in a storage shed about 250 miles away they paid for and I never had the key. They took what they wanted and the rest got sold.

My first apt, I didnt have anything but the clothes on my back literally. I ate out of aluminum pie plates and did my laundry in the sink by hand (yuck,bleach water) for 2 years. I had no phone, no car, no friends, and no family except my grandparents who highly disapproved of me for being stupid enuff to marry a man who would leave me. In short, I literally had nothing.
and I had two kids to raise. I learned the hard way that things can be replaced, but your friends and family are what you count on. If you dont have that, hopefully you have your health. Its been many years but I think I have come a long way from those dark days...

[JazmenFlowers]

good god, I am so sorry you went through that. I know from personal experience that those kind of things are extremely rough, but at least you know you are stronger and wiser now. And you are right, material things can be replaced; sometimes it's hard to know the value of people and things that really matter.

[GODDESS6]

Originally Posted by irishgrl

when I first moved to the town Im in now, all I had was 1 suitcase and my jewelry box. I had just been terrorized by my mother in law who basically kept me prisoner in her car driving down mountain roads (anyone know where Quincy CA is? the feather river canyon in early spring still has 5ft snow and I was afraid she would dump me in the river) She pulled out half the hair on my head and we were punching each other in the front seat of the car...I was 5mo pregnant, with a 3 1/2 yr old. When I told my husband about it, he confronted his parents who kicked us out of their house. We went to Oroville and asked for help from the Salvation Army. We got a room but my husband took off with my car and left me at the motel. He never came back. My inlaws had all my stuff in a storage shed about 250 miles away they paid for and I never had the key. They took what they wanted and the rest got sold.

My first apt, I didnt have anything but the clothes on my back literally. I ate out of aluminum pie plates and did my laundry in the sink by hand (yuck,bleach water) for 2 years. I had no phone, no car, no friends, and no family except my grandparents who highly disapproved of me for being stupid enuff to marry a man who would leave me. In short, I literally had nothing.
and I had two kids to raise. I learned the hard way that things can be replaced, but your friends and family are what you count on. If you dont have that, hopefully you have your health. Its been many years but I think I have come a long way from those dark days...

wow, i am soooo sorry you had to go thru this, but i really thank you for sharing, it really puts things in perspective about how precious life really is, & things are just things~ i hope everything goes your way now!!!~