fear of using stickers

i have a box full of stickers i bought a couple years ago after my first job. it was my first time being able to afford something like that, so i was afraid of using the stickers and kept them "saved". they've been stored in the same box ever since. during the time i bought them i was stuck in a very miserable situation so now everytime i look at them i dont see fun stickers, i just see bad memories of that time. SO what ive recently done is decided ive got to use them all because at this point theyre just taking up space and nothing else. call me silly but i didn't want to give them away because there's so much negative energy in them that i wouldn't want transferred to someone else. SO i finally used them all in a journal and stuck them all on top of eachother so they basically hid eachother. i ended up using 6 pages of the journal and it was a great feeling. im finally done with these stickers and i also got to enjoy the process of peeling and sticking while doing it. i don't have to see them again since i hid them all under a layer of non-traumatic stickers. it felt like covering this part of my past and putting it behind me. it felt great :D