I should have saved them

Ever since we moved Heather’s par­ents out of their home of nearly 40 years, I have been keenly aware of the need to not keep things.

As I read an arti­cle in Car & Dri­ver sev­eral months back about middle-aged men col­lect­ing and sell­ing their child­hood Hot Wheels toy cars, I regret­ted that I gave away my col­lec­tion at about age 12. I thought, “Why should I keep these? I don’t play with them anymore!”

Then, I saw what the very first car I bought was going for at a shop not far from where we live — about $80. (The same model was actu­ally pic­tured in the arti­cle — the ugly red Ford Thun­der­bird. Mine was a sort of gold color.) Oh well.

What thing do you wish you had kept?

(Pho­tos thanks to Car & Driver.)