11 year old son is very attached to my "Junk"?

I have an 11 year old son. My husband and I recently decided to up-date and redo our home. Nothing major, just paint and new decor. I have a lot of shabby-chic white plates, white vases, a princess rotary dial phone, some floral design tea-cups (they aren't old, but they look antique). Anyway, I was going to have a garbage sale and my son got very upset. He absolutely does not want me to sell the things I mentioned above. He wants me to keep them for him. I had no idea he was so attached to these things. Anyone have any idea why?
11 year old son is very attached to my "Junk"?
These are things that are familiar to him. They might seem like insignificant items that of course can be replaced, but he sees them as more than that. They might not be sentimental just yet to you, but to him they are. If you can find a place to put them up, do it and pass them on to him when he is old enough.
Reply:Maybe there something from he,s child hood that he loves about them!I wouldn,t sell them,Wait to he is about 13-14 yrs. old and then ask him if he would mind if you had yard Sale with them! I bet,He,s anwser will be o.k.,I don,t mind!Just give him a few yrs. to get older!Boys mature slower than girls,Just have patients mom,LOL,I had too!Hollywood
Reply:Because he loves you.
Reply:Probably he has good memories with those things, and what you consider junk reminds him of a good time, maybe with you, or with his friends.



I think you're worried about the contents, being flowery, but I don't think you should. Talk to him, and ask him what the above things mentioned remind him of, and if he would really like to keep them, or have some money to buy new things with them.
Reply:Oh gee put them in a box and let the kid have them if he wants what will it hurt? He probably is someone who has a hard time adjusting to change and you are changing everything around at home. Maybe he looks upon them as "special" because they were the things he remembers from his childhood.
Reply:You have a weird *** son. I really don't know why your son is so attached to your "Junk".
Reply:because it is normal it is because he is used to see them and touch them every time he uses them and that's why he is adapted to them
Reply:Well.... That is very strange and maybe he likes it and has many memories with them but why not trying to just tell him that this new stuff that you Will be getting is better and tell him that in time he will come to like the other stuff.





And hey wont this be a funny story for when he gets older.



*I can just picture it now*
Reply:your junk is not his junk
Reply:He must have special memories attached to them. I would box them up and save them as he wishes.