Honest question: How long to you save trophies?

[DFWJC]

Please don't misread this, it's just an honest question from both me and my brother regarding housecleaning/purging/etc:

If you have old trophies, how long do you hang on to them?

We don't display any or anything like that, but in both of our homes we have boxes of them in the attic (and my parent's garage) and some that take up a lot of space (even some obnoxious, 5-6ft tall types). They don't mean much now--and I would have tossed them years ago--but I have young kids and don't know if they may want them for some unkonown reason someday. My parents say to maybe keep them if possible, but I don't know.

I figured the odds of getting a real answer are higher here than most places as so many have played sports at some time.

How do you all handle this?

lol. try to keep a straight face.

[Hostile]

Truthfully when I got out of HS I didn't want them.

[Doomsday101]

Please don't misread this, it's just an honest question from both me and my brother regarding housecleaning/purging/etc:

If you have old trophies, how long do you hang on to them?

We don't display any or anything like that, but in both of our homes we have boxes of them in the attic (and my parent's garage) and some that take up a lot of space (even some obnoxious, 5-6ft tall types). They don't mean much now, but I have young kids and don't know if they may want them for some unkonown reason someday.

I figured the odds of getting a real answer are higher here than most places as so many have played sports at some time.

How do you all handle this?

lol. try to keep a straight face.

I have kept every one I earned. I don't display most of them others I do. Having said that I do tend to be a pack rat.

[Zaxor]

Please don't misread this, it's just an honest question from both me and my brother regarding housecleaning/purging/etc:

If you have old trophies, how long do you hang on to them?

We don't display any or anything like that, but in both of our homes we have boxes of them in the attic (and my parent's garage) and some that take up a lot of space (even some obnoxious, 5-6ft tall types). They don't mean much now--and I would have tossed them years ago--but I have young kids and don't know if they may want them for some unkonown reason someday. My parents say to maybe keep them if possible, but I don't know.

I figured the odds of getting a real answer are higher here than most places as so many have played sports at some time.

How do you all handle this?

lol. try to keep a straight face.

Well I can't say I have gotten a ton of trophies because I didn't I had like 3 or 4 but I don't have any now as moving all around the world they just got lost sometime or another but I don't really miss them at all

[ABQCOWBOY]

I don't think there really is a right or wrong answer here. I could not tell you where any of mine went but that's really not a confirmation of anything. I think you just keep em if you won't or if you don't, send them packing.

[Joe Rod]

The only trophy I save is the wife.

[Sam I Am]

The only trophy I save is the wife.

This.

When I moved out, I left all my trophies there. All they do is take up space.

[Meat-O-Rama]

If they don't have any real meaning to you, just toss em. If there are some that you truly feel were earned or special, no harm in keeping em.

[DFWJC]

Thanks.
Keep the responses coming.

Some of the really old ones were found in my parents garage last summer. It turns out that they had saved everything from way back when. I use the term garage loosely--as it is basically an aircraft hanger on 20 acres on top of a mountain in Virginia. Talk about pack rats.

When we had our son (he'll be 4 in May), they sent me boxes of that junk and now they just gather dust in my attic. The regular sports ones don't take up a ton of room but they serve no purpose either. My sister thinks she can sell some the martial arts, obnoxios-type ones on eBay.
Man, that's sounds cheesy to me.:laugh2:

Anyway, my parents have a few photo albums that document enough that if the kids grow up and wnt to see the "old days" that should be good enough.
I leaning towards tossing the trophies altogether--I didn't even know most still existed until a few years ago.

Thanks

[TheDallasDon]

I had over 100 kickboxing trophies......tried 2 sell them at a garage sale few years later lol.
None sold....threw them away.

I keep my PS3 trophies if that counts?

[Doomsday101]

I'm planning on holding on to 2 of my awards. 1st Most Interesting Man In the World award and Stud of the year. :laugh2:

Stay Thirsty my friends.

[ologan]

Thanks.
Keep the responses coming.

Some of the really old ones were found in my parents garage last summer. It turns out that they had saved everything from way back when. I use the term garage loosely--as it is basically an aircraft hanger on 20 acres on top of a mountain in Virginia. Talk about pack rats.

When we had our son (he'll be 4 in May), they sent me boxes of that junk and now they just gather dust in my attic. The regular sports ones don't take up a ton of room but they serve no purpose either. My sister thinks she can sell some the martial arts, obnoxios-type ones on eBay.
Man, that's sounds cheesy to me.:laugh2:

Anyway, my parents have a few photo albums that document enough that if the kids grow up and wnt to see the "old days" that should be good enough.
I leaning towards tossing the trophies altogether--I didn't even know most still existed until a few years ago.

Thanks

Any other things up there in the old hanger that got kept....like,say....old baseball cards....comic books...you know,things I would gladly go thru for you and dispose of?

[DFWJC]

Any other things up there in the old hanger that got kept....like,say....old baseball cards....comic books...you know,things I would gladly go thru for you and dispose of?
I bet they do uncover some gems. They already have.
I know they already have this old piano that has turned out to be surprisingly valuable.

My grandmom passed away a couple of years ago. She had passed on a bunch of stuff to my mom. It too has been stored in the "hanger". They found this old diary that was passed down in the family and had been boxed away--it is an authentic diary of a man in the Cival War! The man wrote fairly well and had names, dates and everything in that diary.
That blew me away. I think some UVa historians are checking out.

The family already has a whacky history, as my great, great grandfather was "Devil Anse" Hatfield. Funny stuff.
Maybe one the trophies found will a McCoy family members heads in a jar or something. Sorry, couldn't help it.

[Wimbo]

After I moved out my mom boxed them up & put them in her garage. Over 20 yrs later she asked me if I wanted them & I said no. So, she threw them away.

My wife had saved her dance trophies received throughout her life. We put a new gold plaque with my daugter's name inscribed on one of them & gave it to my daughter at the end of her 5th year of dance (she was 7).

[WV Cowboy]

The trophies that I received as an athlete are long gone.

But there are a couple of plaques that I have received recently as a coach that I still have. (state champs, league champs, tournament champs)

I'm proud of those boys and what we accomplished together.

[kmp77]

I still have my 12th place 1990 city league soccer trophy on my shelf.

[DFWJC]

I still have my 12th place 1990 city league soccer trophy on my shelf.
Awesome:D
I failed to mention that these are particaption only trophies. I just can't seem to let go of those glory days.

[jubal]

Awesome:D
I failed to mention that these are particaption only trophies. I just can't seem to let go of those glory days.

Had some Bass Club trophies until last June and moved off and left them, when we got here and unpacked, my packrat wife had brought them.
They now take up space in my storage building window due to downsizing the house.I am no longer in a club and it took me several years to even place high enough to get one.
Time changes things you value to clutter later.:D

[chip_gilkey]

They found this old diary that was passed down in the family and had been boxed away--it is an authentic diary of a man in the Cival War! The man wrote fairly well and had names, dates and everything in that diary.
That blew me away. I think some UVa historians are checking out.


Being a history major in college I can tell you that I am completely jealous! That would be so awesome.

[Rackat]

I have three of my own trophies left.
1. 3rd Place - Parliamentary Procedure from High School
2. 2nd place - soccer U14
3. 2nd place - Pee Wee football

I have all of the trophies won from the teams I have coached along with team photos. I coached the same group of kids for 4 years, and really got attached to them. I still keep in touch with their parents and the kids still facebook with me occasionally...even though they say I am "old" now that I don't coach anymore. LOL

[Signals]

I'm planning on holding on to 2 of my awards. 1st Most Interesting Man In the World award and Stud of the year. :laugh2:

Stay Thirsty my friends.Trophies you give yourself don't count. :laugh2:

[Future]

I still have all my bowling trophies from when I was like ten...they are in a box in the attic, right next to all my dad's trophies from when he was in highschool :laugh2:

[kmorgan]

We have quite a few, mostly from when my husband played sports as a kid. He didn't want to get rid of them, but we didn't display them until we moved in to the house we have now and had an extra room. It's now the "sports room" for lack of a better name, and they have a place in here because they go with everything we have displayed. We add our kids' trophies to the shelf with the rest of them. Even though he didn't want to get rid of them, before we had a place for them, it didn't bother him for them to be in the attic!

[Jammer]

Almost all trophies I got when I was a kid were thrown away. I did keep the state championship JUDO trophies I got. I don't display them, but I still have them. I don't know why I haven't thrown them away. They're well over 30 years old so it's not like they mean anything to me.

I've kept all my Air Force awards displayed on my "I Love Me" wall in my home office, but hardly anyone has ever been in there so it's not like I'm bragging about them. It's more for decoration than anything else.

I do, however, still display the "World's Greatest Dad" trophy my daughter got me when she was like 5 years old. I think it still matters even after 20+ years after I got it. :D