Sometimes the aroused baggage of past relationship simply is n’t enough . For some harebrained reason , many people also hang on to the physical grounds , from teddy bears and postcards to just the ticket stubs and erstwhile T - shirts . There ’s even a museum that takes these foreign souvenir and puts them on display forall to see .
Most of us do n’t donate our unknown treasures to the archive of a museum ; instead choose to keep them tucked by at the back of a closet or bottom of a drawer . And some of these trophies of people we bed are truly bizarre , with history to check . Below are unfeigned stories of the sometimes sentimental , always odd items that citizenry have taken , saved , or lost .
Keeping things brief
" A supporter of mine keep back a pair of Boxer from every cat she ever slept with . When she annunciate her engagement , her maiden of honor quite thoughtfully steal all of the boxers and made her a comfort out of the skivvies from her former suitors . This gift was present to her the evening of her bachelorette political party . I ’m not so certain how her husband felt about this nowadays , even though a dyad of his boxers were the center square . " –Tamara
Hanging on to his million-dollar smile
" This guy cable I sleep with once had just come back from the dental practitioner and had been given a clay molding of his teeth . It was just seat on his nightstand and I do n’t know why , but I call for to have it . It was just so , I do n’t know , coolheaded , plus I know I ’d never see him again so he could n’t confront me about take it . I still have it on a shelf at my house . " –Kat
Music to his ears… and her lips
" I inherited this really trounce - up old guitar from my pappa that I used to take over to my high school sweetheart ’s house to toy for her . One mean solar day we discovered that if you confine up a particular make of Scotch mag tape and snog it , it would make an impression of your lips . So we osculate the tape recording and stuck it to the back of the guitar . Years later her lip marks are still on the back of my guitar , and whenever I play it I think of her . " –Matthew
Unusual hauntings of the ex variety
" My ex - boyfriend buy me a statue of an orthodox image , the one represent to what would be my saint name . After we broke up I want to get rid of it , but it felt unusual or unseasonable – like it would be bad luck to give it away or throw it out . So I keep back it . " –Liz
" One metre my hubby showed me a dearest letter of the alphabet from an ex-husband - girlfriend , in which she let out that she had painstakingly saved and ' preserved ' the prophylactic from their first sexual brush . " –Lisa
" She did n’t understand why I did n’t want to use the sex toy that an ex had purchase for her , and had previously relish with her . " –Dave
Museum of Broken Relationships, Zagreb, Croatia|paul prescott/Shutterstock
Former flames who can’t let go
" I had this really coolheaded retro 1960s stand - up ashtray from an honest-to-goodness motion picture theater I purchase at a secondhand store . When my ex and I stop up he really wanted it , and made this big aspect about how I had broken his heart . I ’m not indisputable how retain my ashtray would mend that , but I allow him take it anyway . " –Steph
" I used to break this small silver heart - work locket . It had nothing inside it and for some reason it really chafe my X that it was empty . When he tell me that he had something to keep in my locket I naturally assumed it would be a photo or a curl of his whisker , unfortunately , I was wrong . He was rather adamant that I permit him put his ' seed ' into the locket so he ’d always be there . I still have the locket – gratefully , it remains free of his desoxyribonucleic acid . " –Leslie
Missing that face
" We went on one almost - date to Burger King , and during our repast she asked if she could take up my student ID circuit board . Several years later , she run into my girl and showed her the quondam beat - up educatee wag . My girl unsuccessfully tried to get them back for me . " –Chris
" My ex would only keep the worst photos of someone when he broke up with them . He somehow believe that by only looking at the ugliest photos of an X - girlfriend it would make him feel better about the relationship being over . I ’m sure there are some stellar motion-picture show of me in that album nowadays . " –Becky
Statement pieces
" He was cheating on me , and denying it . So I deliver every random earring , necklace , watch bracelet , and hairclip I kept regain under his layer , on the chest , or beneath the pillows . When I confronted him with the big money of evidence , he lie again and said they must have come in out of his daughter ' clothes in the laundry and receive stuck in his sheet . I dumped him . But I never got rid of the jewelry . " –Lindsay
The best-laid plans…
" I buy a feeding bottle of wine 18 years ago , and tell apart myself I would drink it with my true honey when I find her , then pour some on both [ of us ] as a ceremonial occasion . I still have it . It was bottled in the mid-’90s , it ’s past its prime , but so am I. " –Joe
" In eminent schooling , a acquaintance of mine worked a part - time line of work for a local church service . When he was bore he ’d create gag written document for his friends . Once , he made a fake man and wife certificate for me and my high school sweetheart , along with a bogus certificate of baptism for a fictitious minor . I kept both documents for about a decade after we broke up . " –Sonia
The archivists
" This guy I was dating had this braggart blood-red binder of all of the love alphabetic character he ’d ever received . It was organized meticulously by date and even had name tabs for each authoring newswriter . " –Nadia
" I still keep one shoebox of mementos from each serious relationship I ’ve been in ( there are six ) . Just some of the treasures in those container admit : the rubber wrap from when I lost my virginity , Wisdom of Solomon tooth , a number of dreadlocks , love letters too legion to count , lucky cent and shells from all over , a pipe made out of a shell shell , and one disordered range from a boyfriend who ’d decided to spend a year riding his bicycle cross - country , stand out gearing , and hitchhike . He mailed the ambit home to me in Massachusetts from the beaches of San Diego , saying I was his only true north . We broke up a calendar month later . " –Amelia
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