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If I didn't have some claustrophobic tendencies, I'd be a hoarder.

Elle1036Elle1036 member
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I form strong attachments to inanimate objects sometimes.

On Sunday, just after we got home from the out of town wedding we attended, FI and I sold our boat. We bought it from another family member last year, and ended up having to put so much money into repairs that it just wasn't worth it anymore, so we listed it for sale. I expected it to take a while, by we got a full-price offer after just a few days and we handed it over yesterday.

It's a relief to be done with it, but I'm also a little sad. Probably too sad. I spent almost every summer during my teens dragging behind that boat. It's the one I learned how to slalom and wakeboard on. I miss it. :(

I was the same way with my first car. Anybody else?
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Re: If I didn't have some claustrophobic tendencies, I'd be a hoarder.

  • csousa1csousa1 member
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    edited December 2011
    When I graduated college, I bought myself my first car, an 03 Alero. Nothing too gorgeous, but I was in love with it. About a year and a half later I got in an accident and it was totalled. My dad took me to the auto body place that it was parked at to help me empty all my stuff out of it. I don't cry in public - at all - but when I went to take the bow off that I had tied around the rearview mirror, I started sobbing. My poor dad is standing there, with mechanics looking on, his arms full of my crap and having NO idea why the hell his normally pretty stable daughter was blubbering over a pink bow.

    I get overly sentimental about that stuff too, I get it. It's hard!
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  • MLekathLEENMLekathLEEN member
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    edited December 2011
    When I was about 3, I BALLED when my dad sold his Mustang to my cousin. I was very attached to it I guess.

    FI sold his Mustang last September. It was his first "purchased" vehicle and his baby. I hated how he drove it and how much (unnecessary) money he put into it so I wasn't too sad to see it go. Over the weekend there was a car cruise by his house and we saw his car. The guy who bought it lives about 50 miles away so I never thought we'd see it out tooling around. I'll admit, I was a bit misty and it made my stomach sink to see someone else driving "his baby".
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  • Elle1036Elle1036 member
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    edited December 2011
    Aw, Emily and Sousa, those are cute (if a little bit sad) stories!
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  • csousa1csousa1 member
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    edited December 2011
    PS Elle I love your siggy pic- you look so pretty! Nice dress :)
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  • Elle1036Elle1036 member
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    edited December 2011
    Haha thanks Sousa. My hair is youcurled in that pic, too!
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  • loves2shop4shoesloves2shop4shoes member
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    edited December 2011
    I'd fuuck someone up if they messed with my e-ring...does that count?

    Also, I said this in another thread, but I LOVE your new siggy pic!

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  • Elle1036Elle1036 member
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    edited December 2011
    Liv, I think it's so adorable that you had to say goodbye to the furniture. Shoes, yes, that counts. What's weird is that I don't feel the same attachment to my e-ring... But maybe that's just because it's still relatively new to me, or because I haven't been seriously confronted with the possibility of losing it.
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  • goobersinlovegoobersinlove member
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    edited December 2011
    Oh. My. God.

    ***ENTHUSIASTICALLY WAIVES BOTH HANDS!!**

    So my current car's name is Nugget. She's a 1996 Saturn SL2 with 250k miles and a laundry list of problems. But she's such a trooper - she always gets me from A to B no matter what. So I gave her a tattoo on her back windshield that says "Super Saturn" with the S logo. My BF hates her (for no good reason I don't think - she runs!), but I just can't bare to let her go... like ever. Even when I do get another car... I'm keeping her. End of discussion.

    LivLeighton, the same thing happened to my first car my senior year... and I just sobbed on my knees on the side of the highway for hours, kept a piece of the bumper, and proceeded into a depression for several months over my "dead car."

    If I'm BSC for anything, it would be this.
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