Sentimental Savings

[BCHGRL]

Has being sentimental saved you money? What items do you keep for sentimental purposes that you should have gotten rid of years ago by modern standards?

Here are some things that I am sentimentally attached to:
-My car - reminds me of many things such as how young and dumb I was when I first bought it and it turned into the 1st big ticket item I ever paid off

-very small, simple gold hoop earrings - when my fiance came back from a deployment when he was still in the military he brought me a necklace and some earrings. I lost the necklace (again, young and dumb) but the very simple earrings are still my jewelry of choice every day.

-my night stand - I inherited my great grandmother's bedroom suite. My mom and I refinished it, but I outgrew it. The night stand doesn't match my current bedroom suite, but I have wonderful memories of refinishing it with my mom when I see it.

certain work clothes - the outfit I wore on my first day over 5 years ago, the outfit I wore the first time I have to give a presentation, even clothes that are now too big after I lost 25lbs to remind me that I have kept the weight off over a year

[Fern]

I have kept many things for sentimental reasons, but i don't think the things i've saved have kept me from buying other stuff. Mostly it's jewelry or one of a kind objects i couldnt' buy anyway, things that were hand-made for instance. I tend to be the opposite of a hoarder, and more often than not get rid of stuff only to regret doing so later, like a perfectly good pair of leather boots from HIGH SCHOOL that i should have held on to.

[Tightwad Kitty]

Wow that’s hard question for me to answer. Over the years as each family member has past away, each house had to be sold and divided between other family members. As I have the largest house I got most of the furniture and trade tools are stored at my house too! The biggest sentimental item I have is the house and all the furniture and white goods that came with it. The amount that I paid for it and the asset value of it today, 12 years later has multiply by 10. So yes I have made a very big Sentimental Saving, even if the house still looks like the last make-over in the 1970’s. I try to limit the amount of sentimental items to only 5 items from each house. When you multiply that by 8 houses over time I have lived in this house, some 30 years plus. I do have a lot sentimental savings items that are now still with in the family.