Memorabilia Nostalgia

And we should blame Pratchett's witches for making us think of the word 'memororabililia'. S'like spelling banana and forgetting when to stop.

So we've two boxes of memorabilia, kept under our table: a bigger one (that's actually a vacuum cleaner packaging box) which we got when we shifted to our current house, and a smaller one that used to hold goodness knows what. The bigger one doubles as a storage container for stuff other than keepsakes too, as we, as the usual story goes, have no space.

So in the Big Box, we've...our Nokia boxes, Game Boy Advance game boxes, our collection of Magic: The Gathering, BattleTech, Lord Of The Rings and various other collectible card games, and our letters.

The letters are basically greeting cards from friends during primary school, from sis when she studied abroad (pre-Internet days, these!), get-well cards, an oh-goodness-we-think-this-girl-might-be-interested-in-me-why-else-so-much-effort-in-this-letter card, and actual letters from a missing friend.. Another reminder of how the years have flown past already.

Oh look what's hidden behind the letters. A program booklet for the school's Science & Math's 1st Annual Installation. Nearly 12 years ago.

Ah, onto something from our uni days. We'd started picking up interest in the Torment set and actually asked the shop for these merchandising materials. We wanted to stick a black mana on our door, haha, but in the end didn't had the heart to waste it.

But we're not sure where's the box for our Nok7650. Our first phone that wasn't a hand-me-down.

Onto the Tour Box. Here we have assorted stuff from abroad. Good grief our Jessops photos that we've yet to scan.

Ah. Our Madame Tussauds ruler. Whacks a mean punch if used to whip others. Bought this on our first UK trip way back in Form 1.

Interestingly in terms of souvenirs from US, we remember a couple of playing cards, the Legend Of Zelda: Link's Awakening for the Game Boy, a couple of boosters for MtG, a couple of starters for BattleTech, jeans and some tees from warehouses... What's stuff like fridge magnets when you're a kid? But those that made it into the boxes were the brochures, pamphlets and maps.

And from Scotland, a lot more stuff. We're rather happy with the tickets and the likes, as the inking is still visible unlike our bills nowadays, where after a couple of years it's faded and all that's left is a blank piece of paper. There's our Haggis Tour stuff, and the Mort play as well as bits and pieces from the Edinburgh Fringe Festival...

Then there's more ticket stubs and such from London. Gives us shivers now to be reminded of how cheap tickets for musicals are near 30 quid already. Of course lah, when we were there sometimes you just couldn't convert prices for everything as there were things that were considered dollar-to-dollar...

It seems that we live the fridge magnet collecting to mum. When we get our own pad then probably we'll pick up the habit. Right now it's more to postcards. We almost got a shock to find only one pipe left, then we remembered we did use the others to try smoking some Smelly Skunk before.

Hmmm whatever do we have from Barcelona to put in here?!