Here is my take on it... when you are ready you will toss most of them. I had an album that was all stuff my ex & I did together (tickets, pics, letters, momentos, etc...) about 2.5 years after the break up when I met my new guy and KNEW he was it, he was the one. I felt the need to take the album apart. I sent my ex the pics of just him or him and HIS friends (through his sister), kept SOME of the pics/letters/cards (very few) and tossed the rest. It was 10 years of my life... and some of it was really good. I couldn't just toss it all away like it didnt exist. But the majority of it I didnt need to keep anymore. I have a stack of pretty hat boxes and I have other memorabia in them from the past and I just put the stuff I kept from my ex in that. My new guy will never go through it and its not kept in the room we sleep in or anything. Its in a spare bedroom.
So if I were you Id mix the 'ex' stuff in with the rest of your memorabilia, thin it out a bit... and keep it in another room, not the room you and your new guy sleep in.
You're not ready to let go of that part of your life completely yet, and thats ok... its only been a year and it was 5.5 years of your life!
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