Do you keep your old stuff?

I only seem to discard the stuff I want. The crap? I can find it within seconds.

I keep everything I've written. Shopping lists, credit card receipts, oops no, bin the credit card receipts, no evidence.
But I do keep WIP related written stuff, just score through it if/when I've used it.

Shady Lane said:

I've got stuff as old as second grade. That's the stuff that's fun to look back on.

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You too? I still have what I believe is the first story I ever wrote, when I was about nine years old. That would have been circa 1964. A few years ago my brother was digging through the mounds of boxes he stored in his basement after our dad passed away and he came across a bunch of stuff of mine from back then and sent it out to me. What a guy. I laughed myself silly for days.

I also have a bunch of stuff I wrote years later using orange paper on this old portable manual typewriter. More guffaws there, that's for sure.

As for stuff I've written on the computer: I have everything I've ever done, and will not delete it for any reason whatsoever.

If nothing else, my daughter and her kids will have these things as a memento after I'm gone.

scarletpeaches said:

I did. We weren't all lucky enough to own computers at the age of 12. I didn't have one 'til I was about 26 or 27.

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Computers, other than huge room-sized behemoths, didn't exist when I was twelve. I had to make do with a pencil and piece of paper. Oh, the hardships!