Learn English meaning of ‘antiques’

I dont like old things at all, I just keep old photos from dad’s n  mother’s sides of families 

There is a show on TV where a  couple of guys are driving a van visiting many American States  in search of antiques .It is amazing to see how some people were hoarding so many things throughout their entire life. I only have a letter addressed to my mother from former President Peron´s wife , Eva Duarte de Peron, best known as Evita .Madonna made her worldwide famous  portraying her in a film and singing ” don´t cry for me Argentina” . I believe that it might have some value should i want to sell it to a collector. 

When I was teenager, I started to collect stamps and my earliest written. Collecting stamps, I don’t know when, of a time I didn’t continue.
Collecting things as memento is a kind of addiction. You collect things like photos, books, stamps, CDs and the other things, one day you think you spent half of your life for collecting, organizing and keeping them. You see you don’t have space for yourself, around of you is too sloppy.

I started to throw things away from a few years ago, specially last year I throw a lot of things away. My new addictions in recently year is throwing extra things out, almost every year.

But it is interesting to see what I wore when I was kid, or my handwriting when I started to write or my first essays and so on.