ang625 Posted December 21, 2007 Posted December 21, 2007 3 years ago, i was cleaning out my garage....i had my "piles"..... the trash pile, keep pile and the christmas pile (old trees, boxes of broken ornaments and such).....well, my dh and son misunderstood me, and pitched ALL of the boxes in ALL of the piles (except for the keep one, i put that pile away myself)......sooooooo, 3 years ago i lost all of my children's chirstmas ornaments and little things that they made in school. 3 boxes filled with my "xmas treasures" GONE!!!!! they thought i meant all boxes marked xmas, not just the ones set off to the side. i cried HARD for a whole week, and the last couple of years its been so hard for me to get in the xmas spirit because of that. although i still lament for those things, it was a little easier this year to get "in the mood'. i know that i only lost 'things' and i still have my boys, and health and all that stuff....but dang!! moms, dads, grammas, you understand where im comming from. those little trinkets were irreplaceable. i still get teary just thinking about it. what i did do was get some pics from each age they were and made little ornaments to "fill in" for the ones that they had made, but it just isnt the same, i want back the ones they made with there little hands. has something like this or something similar ever happen to any of y'all?
shopping4my3son Posted December 21, 2007 Posted December 21, 2007 Not exactly the same but similar. One year at DH work they had a party for everyone with Santa. The kids made different decorations and I hung them up that year. I packed everything up after Christmas and put it all in the basement. Next year comes around and I start unpacking everything and start finding a lot of mold on some decorations. I couldn't figure out why until I got to the bottom of the container and found a decoration my son had made the year before at that party that had marshmallows on it. I didn't even pay attention to it when I packed it and from that I had to throw away an entire container of Xmas stuff.
hopeky94 Posted December 21, 2007 Posted December 21, 2007 . . . . . . I'm so sorry this happened to you! I've never experienced this personally, but have had some close scares in years past (forgotten to get out a box of decorations and thought the special ones were lost)... Is it possible another family member (aunt, grandparent, etc.) might have some of these as well and would be willing to share a few with you? If you still have other items they made at other times of the year (or some of their favorite toys when they were little), maybe some of those could be used for decorating for Christmas as well... I remember one of my favorite ornaments as a child was actually one of those little plastic pineapple containers that had the powdered koolaid stuff in it-- it wasn't supposed to be an ornament, but it had a hole in the top so I stuck a hook in it and it went on the tree for many years! And while those particular decorations you lost are irreplaceable, maybe having some new handmade decorations could help ease the pain. If you have some younger children that you see on a regular basis (relatives, neighbors, church, etc.), ask them to make something special for you! Most kids love to make things, especially when they know a grown-up really wants it! I have no children of my own and was away from my nieces and nephews for a couple years when they were young, which was really hard for me. But I still have some of the pictures and cards that my mom's 4 & 5 yr olds class at church made and sent to me back then; it meant so much to know they cared enough to create something special just for me! :) So hang in there and remember-- even if you lost every physical possession tomorrow, no one can take away those special memories you hold in your heart!
sbixby Posted December 22, 2007 Posted December 22, 2007 I had something similar happen last year. My son made a cinnamon applesauce ornament in kindergarten (he's in 9th grade now) that we put on the tree every year. Last year our dog, that we have had for 8 years!, decided that it still smelled good enough to eat and pulled it off the tree and took a munch. So now all I have are fragments in a bag. I opened the decorations this year and when I saw that flashed right back to when it happened last year. Oh well...now it's a family Christmas tale...the year the dog ate the ornament. I still have my kindergarten classes make these type of ornaments for their parents but now I tell them to let mom and dad put it up high on the tree if they have a pet. :)
tlock1945 Posted December 22, 2007 Posted December 22, 2007 My mom had her ornaments in her FIL's barn and every one of them got burnt w/ the trash! She is a very sentimental person, so I know it had to upset her. I was a young teen at the time, so I remember making a new ornaments for her. I would be so sad if that happened to me too! I am so sorry that happened!
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