Empty cologne bottlesNotesLettersTissues from restaurantsCandy bar/chocolate wrappersFilm canistersPlastic bagsTorn up papersTickets/movie ticketsMoney/coinsDisposable utensilsTest papers in HS

Old photo booth picturesOld shirts/blousesBroken cell phoneNotebooksFoldersFlowerComputerScrapbooks in boxesDeposit slipsEmpty ball pensFood boxesStuffed toys

LampHandmade quiltsDecorationsPocket watch handed down from grandpaGlassware Grandpa’s violinMedalstrophiesPicture frameCentury old clock, and many others

These things may at one time hold some purpose for us. We enjoyed looking at them, playing with them, displaying them or using them.

Some memorySome personal linkSome meaning

Monetary valueSentimental value

If we are going to sell the thing on a lower price then we are lost.

The market values it therefore we must also value it.

There may be a fondness for the place, the time or the person we was with when we acquired it.The item may be given to us in commemoration of some special events.

Or we may feel the association of the things with a particular person, makes it important.Someone we admire or hold dear values it, and so therefore we should as well.

SENTIMENTAL VALUE

These things represent our love as a couple and as a family, as friends.

They also signify all those people over the years we have loved and who loved us and each had stories to tell

They tell of all we’ve been through together and where we were headed.

They speak in the voices off generation’s past-parents and grandparents.

We keep them because we believe that every item we have holds memories that we’ll never be able to get back if we are to get rid of them.

UtilitarianismPeople keep things because it has still its utility. These things are utilized to serve a purpose-that is to keep memories always be remembered and unforgotten. They hold memories and tell stories

Materialism We keep things because we want the memories to live in. It can be associated to materialism in which we only remember people, the place or the memories when we hold into something or when we see those things that really exist. We want the physical things (physicalism) to be present to keep that memory lasting.

AxiologyWe have dawned onto the object’s intrinsic value. We really don’t care about the appearance of our old shoes and shirts, our smelly pictures and rotten gadgets because we consider what is in each item-its intrinsic value. They give us happiness, a sense of comfort while appreciating the fact that each thing hold memories, and thus it has value to us.

AestheticsWe keep things because we want them to be always part of ours. We see it to be beautiful when we know that our items are there in our reach. To some people, it is some kind of pigsty thing, but the way we judge it, it has a distinct beauty that we love to mingle with it. In this case, we have the so-called separation issues because we have already established closeness or oneness to these things

IdealismKeeping things is based on the idea that if we put these things, we will never be able to get back the memories that is contained in them. We are blinded on the idea that these things are really important, and the idea of importance is to keep those things

Capitalism(Monetary Value)We keep these because we think of the money or how much we actually paid for it. We don’t want to lose them because we think that we are lost if we sell it at a lower price, or we may value it because we know that the market values it, and thus we must also value it.

JESUS VALENCIABSE IV C