handoflixue comments on How To Have Things Correctly - Less Wrong

57 Post author: Alicorn 17 October 2012 06:10AM

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Comment author: handoflixue 17 October 2012 09:31:32PM 3 points [-]

I'd say valuing something as a memento and valuing it just-for-ownership are different traits. I routinely gift away my dishes when I move because the effort of moving them is less than the cost of replacing them. I keep a box of ticket stubs, love letters, certificates / awards, and other mementos.

That said, there's definitely a failure state where everything gets labelled a "memento" to protect it from being thrown out.