Found my old longbox of comics from the 90s this weekend

I was cleaning out my basement in Sacramento and dug up this beat-up longbox I hadn't opened since 2001. Inside was my whole run of Age of Apocalypse from 1995, complete with the fold-out posters I forgot I had. My daughter asked why I kept them, and I told her it was like a time capsule of who I was back then. Anyone else still holding onto those books from that era or did you finally sell them off?

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the_drew18d ago

Do you ever notice how stuff like that just captures a whole moment in time? I look at my old comics and it takes me right back to 1995, sitting in my buddy's garage trading X-Men issues and arguing over who was the best artist. It's wild how we hang onto these things not for the value but for the memories they carry, like how a song can bring back a whole summer. My wife says I should sell 'em, but to me it's like holding onto a piece of who I was before life got all grown up and serious.

casey26818d ago

Makes you realize how much of what we keep is really just holding on to who we used to be.

wesley63917d ago

@casey268 nailed it right on the head. Every time I look at my old concert ticket stubs in a shoebox under my bed, it takes me right back to being 19 and broke but free. My dad's toolbox sits in my garage too and I never touched it but I can't part with it. They're just little anchors to versions of ourselves we'd forget otherwise.