Did you have a sort of treasure box when you were growing up?

My treasures are all in my head. I treasure some of the experiences I had without which I wouldn't be the same me. The trinkets are reminders lest I forget the experiences but I have the kind of memory that remebers the experiences without seeing the trinkets.

I like to save photographs because they show a person at various stages of life. Thanks to the computer, I can save pictures that would have disintegrated soon without digital reproduction. Many of the people in them have been dead for years, generations or even more than a century in a few instances. They are people I never met whose connectionm to me would be less viable without the pictures someone took of them when they were alive.

Thanks for your input MiltT, but I think you misunderstood my question.

little trinkets that fit in a cigar box

baseball cards, pretty stones, broken jewelry, pine cones, odd change, barbie doll parts

(I think I was an unusaul child now that I look back)

I still have the jewelry box my mom gave me when I was five I saved all my treasures in it,my first ring to me it was the biggest diamond in the world for my dad gave it to me,I still have it,my frist charm bracelet with all my charms, my first love letter from a boy in grade school,my high school ring,my dads favorite lighter,for he is gone now,my wedding ring for I am no longer married,my children's baby wrist bands from when they were born I have kepted my box all these years and add things to it there are more things to but some are more private,great post....memories