Keepsakes

I've an old autograph book from when I was a kid.

Loadsa famous signatures in it. The lads love looking at it from time to time and asking who everyone is.

I've kept a diary since I was 12yrs old.........I keep them all together in a special little box and whenever I feel sad I take one out and read it....and end up in knots laughing at what a depressing little teenager I was. I even have the one of the night I met HD down the grove....but I'll never tell what it says 

My wife and kids...

 

No-seriously-I think the oldest thing I have is my school journal-kept it cos everyine wrote something in it on the last day-we all swapped the journals around during Miss Nolans Irish class.

 

Have loads of concert tickets from early 80's...

I have a box with old letters cards diaries concert tickets etc love getting it out and having a good old rummage through it brings back so many memories

I kept ticket some ticket stubs too...the 1st Slane concert when U2 supported Thin Lizzy! Also old school reports,notebooks and the like...great for bringing back memories!

I have stuff from very early as a kid, nothing kept from later years. I don't think I actively threw anything out specifically - more just could never be bothered keeping anything.

I have far too many signed photos of/from Frank Stapleton, who was my hero at the time. I also have a signed photo of the Irish team the day Pierse O Leary played for them for some reason and a Christmas card from the Arsenal team of 1979.

Frank's da worked with my da - seemed incerdibly exotic to have a link to such a famous guy.

I also have about four hundred pairs of football socks that I am definitely throwing out. Promise.

irish_mammy wrote: anybody willing to break into bluebells house to retrieve that diary???? I've kept so many silly things over the years. There all in my mams house, in my room. Receipts etc, ticket stubs......... old handbags...

Thats a great way to do it - keep all the crap from your youth but in someone else's house!!!  Fair bit of that around from what I read on here - eh Rolo?  I'll be copying my mother on this when TLF moves out - here's your backpack and here's your sixty boxes of crap.  When you move it all moves with ya!!!!

funnily enough because of that I've very little memorabilia left - do have the Grovepass though.  I chucked the diaries years ago - wish I'd kept them now, wasn't a space issue just couldn't read them without getting morto!!!!!!!

Tonto wrote: I still have the t-shirt I was wearing when I met my wife..17.5 years ago.. It's in bits..

Why's that bro-did she reef it off you???

eejit91 wrote: I still have my wedding knickers!!! LOL just to remind me of the size of my arse back then!!!! There's still hope.

Yer a gas woman T!

Absolutely T, cheers me up no end chatting with you and all the gang on here......

As regards Keepsakes, I used to keep a bundle of notebooks in the mid 80s with poems, doodles and stories in them but a friend 'borrowed' them and they never came back to me...