Gifts from your "Ex" Keep? Toss? Memories?

When me and my ex broke up both us kept the things we got from each other.
I once got a necklace as a christmas present from him and I use it every day, but not because HE gave it to me. I use it because its the prettiest necklace I have + I feel so naked without a necklace nowdays. Actually it's so pretty I'd want a tattoo designed after it, but I wont because even tho its pretty it would feel odd because it was given to me by my ex :/

But yeah, I still have all the childrens books, dvds, plushies and other stuff he gave me. But we are still friends, or maybe more like sisters [size=10](yes, I see him more as a sister than brother)[/h], so there's really no reason to throw anything away.
And when I find a new boyfriend, I'm stll going to keep everything my ex gave me because they are just things I like and there's no way I'd date someone who is so jealous that he'd want me to get rid of them.

Get rid of. Toss, donate, and throw away. Don't want to hold on to things from the past.

I normally keep the gifts because I keep it as a sign of our previous friendship. I usually keep the letters from him too to show my future daughter (so we could laugh about it haha) Honestly, after so many years, whenever you see those items, you'll just laugh about it and remember the good ol' days. You'll be slightly embarassed because you never thought that you would fall for a guy like that or something =))

When my husband and I split, it was a mess since I was pregnant and he was a cheating lying dickwad. When I moved out, I left my wedding dress, all our wedding pictures, and some of the clothes he bought for me since they weren't my taste and I only wore them to make him happy. I took my pearl necklace that his mother got me (I'm still good friends with her), and the Totoro items and a pair of boots he got me.. But in almost 4 years together, he really didn't give much so it wasn't hard to sort through. I also left him all the letters we wrote back and forth while he was in the military. I faithfully waited and loved him, but as soon as he got back he dicked around. No point in keeping letters full of lies. I don't want the gifts I gave him back, if I did it'd be half his wardrobe and half his game collection.. Although in retrospect I should have taken some of the games since he never plays them and I actually did. Break ups suck. He has a new girlfriend and still moans to me about how he can't bring himself to throw away our wedding pictures, as if I give a piss about that...

I got one gift and it wasn't something I could keep lol. Let's just say he wasn't that thoughtful.
The pictures I had of him and stuff I deleted because he hurt me too much and I didn't want to remember that every single time I looked at the damn things.

Still have that box of chocolate she gave me. Never ate it, because it has alphabets which if I rearrange them it would make a sentence out of it. Still kept them somewhere.

And I don't take back things I give to my ex, I give it to them sincerely, so why should I take it back?

Some people IMO should learn to how to let things go. I personally don't hold grudge, simply because it's a waste of time.

I kept everything I ever got given from past relationships - love notes, christmas cards, wallet-sized photos, a small heart-shaped pillow and even a t-shirt I got given by an ex's mum for Christmas. Other than the t-shirt, which I wear because it's pretty damn comfy and still fits me 5 years later, I kept them as mere mementos.

I'm over them and don't want them back, but I like to visit memory lane from time to time. I mean there is such thing as fond memories when it comes to exes.

James gave me an oversized teddybear and a lavender-scented stuffed tiger that also served as a microwaveable heating pad [I have a painful autoimmune disease]. I haven't touched them since he informed he has someone else, but I don't know if I'm going to toss them. Tossing them feels final and.. mean. I don't know what to do with them.

Things that don't really hold sentimental value I've kept. Like one time my ex bought me an art book from an artist I really like. I've kept that because I don't think of him when I look at the book, I just think about how much I love the artist.

But things like jewelry, teddy bears, etc. I've tossed. I did give his one necklace back though, it was something his mom gave him 'to give to the right person' and obviously it wasn't me.

The only thing that I have from a previous relationship is a wallet my first ex gave me as a birthday present. It was a nice wallet and I honestly didn't want to go shopping for a new one and plus I like it, still use it to this day. Oh also this drawing he did of our favorite Pokemon. And I have never felt the need to through it out since we're still friends, hell he's the only one of my exes I like talking to still.
But their hasn't been much to through out really, I just remember tossing a bear plush out awhile ago from another relationship. God I hate teddy bears...

I hung on to everything I was ever gifted, if not for the good memories, than as something to remind me not fall for THAT trick or repeat a mistake I had made in another relationship.

I usually keep the stuff ex's give me if we didn't end on bad terms. But I had a bf who pretty much backstabbed me and was a lying cheating asshole, so I burned the one gift he bought me.

If your are with someone new and trying to truly make it work. Baggage isnt going to point you in the right direction. You are opening doors that need not to be opened. THey were closed for a reason. Enjoy the man/woman you are with and accept THOSE gifts.

Don't have any and don't plan on doing it, the past belongs in the past and I don't want them in the future. I hate lingering feelings from the past which made me kinda suffer. I only keep gifts from people who stay with me.

No matter if it was a good memory or not, in the end they still left you and decided to give up on you.