What to do with your NRA certifications

[Janderso]

I'm tempted to just throw them out.
I spent a lot of time shooting at targets, so what. Nobody cares.
I learned a lot and that's a good thing.
What do you guys do with yours?

 

[matthewsx]

Why not just keep them hung up on the shop wall? It's the kind of thing someone might want to remember you by when you're no longer around.

BTW, I don't have any of these but I do have framed stuff from my dad and grandfather that I cherish.


John

 

[Ulma Doctor]

put them on your front door as a warning.

 

[lordbeezer]

One day you’ll regret trashing. Still have my top gun award from police academy somewhere and bunch other certificates from Ford. Cummins. Cat. Detroit diesel others. Useless now but not trashing. Someone will one day.

 

[CJ5Dave]

At funeral visitations here they have a big screen TV with a slide show of the person's life. Pictures of these might say a lot about your life. I have a friend who is collecting his pictures now for that slide show.

 

[Cadillac]

Frame them your son is not interested? I’d cherish them and strive to achieve if that was my fathers.

 

[GeneT45]

Those represent some laudable achievements, and the choice of what do with them is a very personal one. I had an "I love me" wall for trophies and such for some years and eventually decided that it took up useful space and discarded them. (Initially I held on to a few, but they're all gone now.) I don't miss them. Since you're asking, I suspect you won't miss them either.

GsT

 

[WobblyHand]

I can see both sides, keep it vs discard. If it was me I'd have a natural inclination to keep it. However, after my ongoing experiences with my mother's estate, I've changed my views. I have had to go through more than 70 years of stuff, that just shouldn't have been kept. Had to discard tons of effective ephemera. Mom seemed to hold on to everything.

Keep what you hold dear, but don't stack it in closets and tuck it away. Once it goes into storage it's a sign to get rid of it. If you think family would value it, maybe keep it, or simply take a picture and toss it. All I can say is I have a ton of work to go through stuff, and it's not something to wish on anyone. Be kind to the survivors, make the hard decision today, one way or another, and move on.

 

[jwmay]

I kept some military documentation and awards. My kids can burn it. It’ll be for them to decide.

My mother has been working on our genealogical records for awhile. It occurred to me that perhaps you may want to scan and download some of this stuff for that.

I have a relative who was a Texas Ranger. It was very cool to get scans of his enlistment and other paperwork. Maybe nobody would want a physical copy, but having this stuff digitized is a great way to keep it in a space saving format. A couple generations from now there may be someone in your lineage that would be grateful you did so.

 

[verbotenwhisky]

I'm tempted to just throw them out.
I spent a lot of time shooting at targets, so what. Nobody cares.
I learned a lot and that's a good thing.
What do you guys do with yours?

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