passing on my childhood
August 9, 2009I spent hours cleaning my room and clearing out my cupboards. Didn’t realise I had so much junk!
I’m not a sentimental person when it comes to keeping memories or old things from my childhood, so it was pretty easy just chucking things out. I keep all the good memories in my head and realistically, I will never have time to sit down in my room and start opening boxes of letters and teddybears to reminisce about old times.
Of course I kept the important things; my favourite teddybear, or hand-written letters from old friends. I also didn’t have the heart to give away this Polly Pocket house because my memories playing with it are just too vivid.
But the rest; all given away to charity.
Goodbye my loves
I felt quite sad because it was as if I was giving away my childhood, but I know the good memories will always be with me. I’ve had a fabulous time playing with my dolls and toys and now, it’s time to let some other little girl out there start her childhood with them. I just hope whoever gets my old stuff will have a happy and memorable childhood, and I’ll feel good thinking I’ve brightened up some other little girl’s day with toys.
Something small can go a long way.
When I dug deep at the back of my cupboards, I found all my old handbags which I had forgotten about. I gathered them all and was shocked to discover that many designer bags that I don’t even wear anymore! I started to feel extremely guilty. Fendi, Gucci, Louis Vuitton, Chanel, Dior…they were all glaring at me as if saying “You ungrateful little twat! Remember us?!”
My mom says it’s not good to have so many things because it’s a wastage, and when you die, God will question you about each one of them. I just tilted my head at her, and all I had to do next was direct her to her own cupboards overflowing with handbags. Just to make her feel worse, I also showed her a whole corridor of cupboards full of her clothes and baju kurungs.
“I have to wear those for events and weddings and all!” she defended herself.
“I’m sure God will understand when you tell Him that.”
No, but seriously, I swear I thought of giving my old handbags away to charity or at least to someone who can truly appreciate it. But I just couldn’t!! Each handbag has a story behind it, and each one represents my hard work and determination; persuading my dad to get me even one of them was not a five-minute thing ok!! It was more like a 2-day seminar about the value of money, and how materialistic the world has become. I don’t remember much, but I remember nodding a lot and saying, “Yes, of course I’m listening!”
I had to earn each one! Tears, sucking ups, promises, good grades; I had to devise many strategies to get handbags and even though I got what I want in the end, it was an extremely tiring process.
I decided to be selfish keep all of them in a nice place, neatly arranged. They will go to my daughters, and my granddaughters and my great granddaughters and they can be my little heirloom. And I guess they can sell it off when they want to pay for mortgage or something.
See, a completely selfless act on my part, isn’t it? π I guess I can keep buying handbags. After all, it’s only to pay off my kids’ mortgages.
ohh my god!! you can always pass me one of your LV bag and I’ll appreciate it my whole life.I swear.
ha.ha.ha. do tell the readers if u want to sell them
Hey!!! Some of them are mine! So that’s where they went… Give them back!!
Good god. I have never seen that many purses piled up. Especially very expensive ones.. Good that you’re keeping them
vivy, which charity do you give your stuff cz when i was in the uk i simply threw everything in the Oxfam bin. Too bad there’s no such bin here :s
greatttt now my sister is commenting…soon i’ll see Your Mother and Your Father commenting.
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eh pls…only that Fendi is yours! and it’s mine now after what you did to my Chanel!
need u to sell off…. email me please!!!!! π
hey PD, i remember playing with that polly pocket house π
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and the polly pocket island too. and a star shaped one with some carousels in it or something. you’ve got such a nice collection, of course it should be kept for your daughter(s)! π its quite weird looking at the picture of the colorful house up there. it just looks like colorful plastic now, when it used to be imagination galore back then, for awhile. beautiful π
hey syez. yeahhh the oxfam bin was so convenient!…here, i’m a bit confused.. i give it to my cousin who deals with all this charity stuff.. but i have a friend who volunteers at a somalian refugee so if you want to give your stuff away, i’ll let her know.
omg old memories! sighhh such innocent times.. maybe we should have a polly pocket reunion and play with our dolls again! hahaha
You should keep ALL your bags, pd. Your daughters will love you for it. They’ll be born with amazing vintage pieces π
hehe.. babe.. let me know if u want to sell dat chanel bag π
told my hb that these bags are a type of investment (so that he would allow me to buy more). hopefully they would fetch a higher price than the price that we purchased π
oh, just read your other post ‘chanel update’ and u mentioned about investment. haha. great minds think alike π
gimme gimme π