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I am a keeper of everything...football tickets stubs programmes concert tickets LP records ...I take endless photographs...scan and document all sorts of stuff...kept all my kids school stuff or nearly all ...hoardes of birthday cards xmas cards etc....I'm a geek in that respect but things I did that I regret to this day are dumping all my school exercise books when I left. As a kid I kept diaries but I binned them all.. When my parents moved house all my Football player cards that I had collected since 1969 (hundreds and hundreds of them ) ended up in a skip...I had piles of Beano, Dandy and Beezer comics that just got trashed.......

I must be going doo-lally.....no room in the attic, garage full ...fish finger butties for tea.   game on Sunday ...."the world's goin' crazy and nobody gives a damn anymore" is a line from a song by who ?

I've kept nothing like that but the older i get the more i wished i kept everything. Didn't read the Beezer but the Beano, Dandy, Warlord and Victor comics and not just the comics but the end of year albums you'd get at Christmas between us our house was full of them. There were stacks and stacks of them taller than us.
My mate used to get all the footy theme'd ones like Roy of the Rovers and Shoot and i had another mate that was right into science fiction ones like Dan Dare, 2001AD and the Superman and Batman stuff. Comics were massive in the 70's up to the mid 80's.
Board games as well like Snakes and Ladders, Monopoly, Cluedo, Ludo, Battleships, Connect 4, Operation, Twister etc etc god knows how many of those we had between us. I loved making those aifix, matchbox etc model airplanes as well, goodness knows how many of those i made over the years.
I was in the Dennis the Menace fanclub and the Lord Peter Flint fanclub too lol.

"Breaking off relationships and leaving off on sailing ships" !! Feck me lads that's a trip back to childhood there. I'm not quite as old as you two now as was born mid 70's but the kinks, Beatles, Blonde, Status Quo, Queen etc was all music i grew up listening to. Every Sunday morning the folks put on the LP's religiously. As a kid though I used to go to mass to avoid it     I was also a massive fan of comics. We used to have these bring and buy or jumble sales over here and that was a great way to get them. They weren't popular so at the end of the day you could get literally 100's of comics, annuals for about 50p. I've even read Debbie and Mandy comics    The folks just hoarded stuff they wanted so literally have nothing from my childhood. Most of it probably my own fault but when I think of the stuff I could have kept. The Evil Knievel stunt set, Action Man and I know I Frisbeed many a classic LP into a wall 
I keep a lot of stuff now though and always keep the packaging for it. Especially the tech stuff, Things like games consoles I reckon will be worth a lot in years to come. A few of the kids stuff like peppa pig toys from launch, some of those dolls as well got kept. Hopefully the kids will benefit from some of it long after we are gone.

I have hundreds of The Wizard stashed in the attic. I still buy my boys the Beano and Dandy annuals at Christmas even thought they're 24-25 years old just to p*ss them off. I actually call them to ask which one they'd like this year...

My aarents kept my school reports which my wife enjoys reading out loud. 'Happily hopeless'. 'Needs to stop telling everyone one what to do'.

Fortunately I have a very good memory and enjoy sitting back and going back in time in my mind, walks on the beach when I was 4-5, playing at the boatyard, going on holiday.  Never forget the past lads.