Whenever I get upset over losing something, it is usually just because of the work required to acquire a replacement, not because I had a special attachment to that exact item.
I might have gotten upset over losing a photo album, because that's sort of a thing that helps me remember things that happened in my life. However, in this day and age, that's solved by having my backups as well as online backup services. Speaking of, I should probably digitalize that photo album my parents have from my younger days. Even with this though, it is not the items themselves that I am worried about, but the information contained within them.
-Edit- Now that I think about it, I did buy some super famicom games in Japan just for the sake of collecting them. I'm not extremely attached to them, though. I wouldn't want to lose them, but that's again mostly because it might get even harder to find the original games in the future. I guess that's the closest I get to emotional attachment to items, maybe. I'm not sure, though. I like playing games from my childhood, just for the nostalgia, but it's never the storage medium the games come on that does anything for me. Same with books and movies from my childhood.
Maybe this means I am a true child of the information age.
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