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I have a couple of boxes up on top of my closet that are filled with the class notes I took in high school. They are not orderly or labeled or anything like that, but they are mine and I have kept them despite many attempts by people like my ex trying to get me to throw them out. A couple of years ago I looked through them and while most of it is meaning less to me now, especially given my handwriting, there were a few select pages and things written on the inside of a notebook covers that unlocked some memories I had not visited in many years. What other people see as junk might be worthless to them, but they are the keys to precious memories that would otherwise be lost. This might not be so true with check stubs or bank statements, but who knows. Perhaps twenty years from now the canceled check for some dance class for your child might unlock a memory that otherwise might be long forgotten. If you have the room, then keep as much stuff from your past as you can. You never know which thing will be your "rosebud."