The Sorry Fate of the Special Proposal Items in RF2

I must be one of the most sentimental individuals on the face of the earth and I am no different in games than in reality. I cannot toss out old cards or items from my past... in Rune Factory 2, of course, I kept all the Special Proposal Items from the Eligible Girls I did NOT marry, after proposing to the one I chose.

Unfortunately, storage problems made it necessary to dispose of them somehow in the next Generation. In the 1st Generation, your character can give them as gifts to the designated Eligible Girls after he marries and the responses will vary from a simple recognition of a gift to disappointment that the item was not used as it was intended. Yue, for example, will declare that the ticket has passed its 'sell-by' date. Rosalind, on the other hand, will exclaim happily of her pleasure at receiving the bouquet...

What you CANNOT do, however, is keep the items for your child to give to the girls. You will receive a prompt to the effect that it is impossible to give the item. If, in the 1st Generation, you toss any Special Proposal Item into the street, it will go into the Lost and Found, where you can retrieve it at any time.

In the 2nd Generation, absolutely beside myself with the need to clear out storage space for new items, I tossed all the unused Special Proposal Items into the street, hoping that they would be stashed in the Lost and Found. Alas, this will not occur in the 2nd Generation. The items are gone, irrevocably...

Why did I save the result? Simply because I had to dispose of the items somehow and I feared that if I knew they would vanish when tossed, I would have kept them. In my next game, however, I shall give them to the designated girls BEFORE my first character disappears into the night...

Note that you can use the Lost and Found for temporary storage of the Special Proposal Items in the 1st Generation quite safely... you simply cannot do it in the 2nd Generation.

There is one ray of hope, however, if you are very sentimental and can wait until you have built the Workshop in the 2nd Generation. On Wednesdays, Yue has special 'Bargains' in the form of vital items including a Refrigerator and Shelf that each hold 60 items. If you can stand the annoyance of having less Storage than you need until then, you will be able to stash the unused Proposal Items and still have ample space for War Trophies, Spellbooks and so on...