Your oldest possession?

Nomis21

What is your oldest possession of all the stuff you've kept over the years through thick and thin?

Do you have a photo of it to post on here so we can all marvel at said object?

I'm not talking about your birth cert or body parts or relatives here but some object that you seem to have kept because of the memory or like my object just kept by sheer chance, even after changing address over 20 times

Here is my London Transport Bus Conductor badge from my first job in 1972...

(Just for anyone under 30 years old: A bus conductor was the person who sold tickets on board the bus and gave the driver the signal to start driving after a bus stop)

Azalea

Silver bracelet I got for my communion.

Sonderkommando

Great grandfather's pocket watch.

That I actually bought, heavy metal/punk lps, tapes from the 80s.

knucklehead6

It's not in my house, but is 10 minutes away in my folks.

This lad

http://www.thisoldtoy.com/L_FP_Set/toy-pages/300-399/301-shoveldigger.html

osarusan

My aunt bought a Garfield soft toy for me when I was born and brought it to the hospital, and I still have it.

maudgonner

Pinkie, my first teddy bear from when I was a baby. He's not in too bad shape, a few bald patches and one eye, one button-replacement-eye.

I won't post a photo of him here though cause he doesn't have any clothes on and we all know not to share nude photos of others on the internet, don't we children?

Mr. CooL ICE

My parents are very anti-hoarding, so most things from my childhood are long gone. However, I warned them that if they touch my collection of Lego Technic, I'd find reasons to put them in a home early. As of Christmas, it's still in the attic

Aside from that, a belt. It's a blatant Calvin Klein knockoff from some dodgy guy on the side of the road in Spain that my parents gave me when I was 12ish. Have worn it almost every day for nearly 20 years.

Menas

I have a present of a silver spoon with a teddy on it that I got for my baptism.
The oldest thing I own is a British navy telescope from the early 1800's.

My mam's original wedding ring. Few years older than I am.

I have rings that my granny gave me but I couldn't be sure when they're from.

I rarely wear jewelry so they're all just "up safe".

My little car is probably the next oldest at 22 years. I can't think of anything else. I'm not much of a hoarder.

I loved My Little Pony when I was a baba. I still have them all in my parents attic, including the bigger toys like the stable etc.

I think my oldest Little Ponies are Forget-Me-Not and Peach Blossom - both of them are Flutter Ponies for those in the know. There are pictures of me with them both when I was a small toddler.

Wibbs

Another Teddy Bear type here. He's somewhere in my attic(though I actually don't know where. Haven't seen him for a while. ). Still use regularly? Probably my 1980 Seiko LCD calculator watch. Oldest manmade item would be an Oldowan stone chopper from a couple of million years back, beyond that fossils that would be hundreds of millions of years old and I have a meteorite somewhere and that could be billions of years old.

Ah wibbs. We should have known you'd trump us all

I bet your first pet was a dinosaur :pac:

Winty

Nomis21 wrote: »

What is your oldest possession of all the stuff you've kept over the years through thick and thin?

I have a geiger counter

Wichita Lineman

A bundle of football programmes I collected back in the 1980's.

MistyCheese

My nose. Had it since before I was born. It's still going too.

I just remembered my watch. A vintage Omega Equinoxe made in 1981.

dandyelevan

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Ah wibbs. We should have known you'd trump us all

I bet your first pet was a dinosaur :pac:

Reminds me of the story of the Japanese tourist who asked the floor sweeper in the Natural History Museum how old the Dinosaur skeleton was?

'Two million years and three weeks old it is Madam' said the floor-sweeper, leaning on his brush and looking wistfully into far the distant past.

'Two million years and three weeks...how did you arrive with that age?' said the bewildered tourist.
'Well, said the floor-sweeper...I asked that same question when I started work here, and I was told by a Professor it was two million years old...and that was all of three weeks ago!'

Back on topic...my oldest possession, at the moment, is a 1908 Philips ladies bicycle.

lukesmom

A plastic noddy toy figure about 7 inches high that my dad brought into me when he met me for the first time back in 1979 on the day my mother gave birth to me. It's been with me for 36 years since day one and it's currently in my kids room on the window sill.

looksee

The oldest thing that I have that is mine, is my identity card, post war in Britain, It was issued with my birth date being the day before I was born (my dad was probably confused when he registered me, my birth cert is correct.) Other than random rocks (a piece of petrified wood picked up in Zambia, etc) probably a book dated around 1750 would be the oldest.

JustShon

A teddy bear that my sister bought for me on the day I was born. She passed away when I was 5 so it's nice to still have that bear

Oh lots of things. I still have the big old silver cross pram that I was wheeled around in. It's very beautiful

Your Face

My wife

RayM

A trophy I won in a 'cutest baby' contest in 1983. It remains my only trophy.

Ken.

I rescued 2 books from an office clear out that were going to the dump. One is from 1897 and predicts every eclipse solar and lunar from then till the year 30,000.A first edition. The other is a 1903 book about the history of the world. The pictures are done with woodcuts. It's a second edition.

job seeker

My most valuable item which I've kept is my grandfathers rosary beads. He passed away in September 2000 and I was very close to him. Also he is the reason I grew up with such a good religious faith.

My mother kept my first curl from when I was a baby. Why? I do not know...

Baron Kurtz

Apart from my girlfriend a vintage Omega Geneve.

emeldc

I have a polo shirt that I bought in 1995 in Portugal. I still wear it one day a week but its starting to look a little rough around the collar.
I bought a new van in 1997, fuggin thing wouldn't start this morning.
And I have a full set of Grand Prix International magazines from 1982 in a hardback folder. I'll have a think, I'm sure I've more :rolleyes:

duchalla

A hammer that my Dad gave to me, that his Dad gave to him, probably 60 or 70 years old.
A GAA medal from 1947 that my moms Dad won.
A wind up watch with a picture of the sacred heart on it that belonged to my uncle, he died a young man back in the early 60's, so the watch predates that, the watch still works by the way!

AnonoBoy

Prostitution.











Wait - sorry thought you said oldest profession

My oldest possession would be a prostitute I own.

RikkFlair

Orbis World Cup 1990 sticker album.

Maguined

I have a spoon from my earliest childhood with a teddy bear on the handle that I still use to this day despite its small size whenever in my parents. I refuse to take it away from their home as I do not trust any housemates to respect the sanctity of my spoon.

LenaClaire

I have a Raggedy Ann doll that my great grandmother gave me when I was born.

Also have my grandmother's wedding ring and my grandfather's dog-tags from WWII

BrokenArrows

got a whole bunch of coins from the 60's and 70's somewhere.

cnocbui

Does a fossilised dinosaur tooth count?

Whitewinged

RayM wrote: »

A trophy I won in a 'cutest baby' contest in 1983. It remains my only trophy.

My mam threw mine out by accident also in 1983. My dad always tries to wind her up over it saying "awh how could you have thrown out her bonnie baby trophy?" i told her it's grand but she still feels bad about it.

I have my parents old records and i still listen to them the odd time but my record player isn't great.

I also remember when I was nine, I found a 1929 English penny in my house but no one knows where it came from. I always kept it, not sure why as it's not worth any value. The 1933 penny is the one to look out for.

Seeing people talk about their teddy bears makes me wish that I had kept my "Butterbear" from "The Wuzzles". She was half bear and half butterfly. I brought her out in the muck one day and my mam put her on a hot wash and she never looked the same again This thread is making me think, why did my mam keep destroying all my stuff

jester77

Not sure, I try and live as minimalistically as I can, hate clutter and hoarding so I never hang on to stuff. Probably photos from my youth would be the oldest thing I have.

HugsiePie

My teddy bear. Still sits proudly on my bed (yes I'm a sado, ok)

JustShon

HugsiePie wrote: »

My teddy bear. Still sits proudly on my bed (yes I'm a sado, ok)

I'll bring my bear over to yours and our bears can have tea together

job seeker

cnocbui wrote: »

Does a fossilised dinosaur tooth count?

No..

I have one of this

https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRPC6HUgAVl5t3ly49JspdlbPZdiC9pk243BFlN78dEmlGC0f0t

uch

I've been wearing the same pair of Underpants since 1981, the multi coloured paisley ones, does that count

Morpheus

A teddy bear - Bozy - think hes a rabbit, only facial feature he has left are his eyes! He lives in my parents attic.

A snowspeeder made by kenner toys, come to think of it ive a rake of starwars toys from the early 80s. also some matchbox toy cars and construx - type of american plastic mecanno.

Oldest thing i still use is my mountain bike from about 1992 MBK cruiser

Noodles81

I still have my 1st teddy. He's upstairs on display in the spare room.

I have a gold necklace with a medal of Our Lady my Godfather gave me for my 1st Communion when I was 5. He showed it to me and asked my mam to put it away until the big day. He died of a heart attack soon after and I wore it 2 years later for my 1st Communion.

I still have have it and wear it when things have gone wrong in my life and I feel it gives me strength to get through the day.

I take it off when things have improved and keep it safe. Has broken numerous times but I always find the medal stuck to my skin, even when I was refereeing a gaa match once.

wendell borton

my birthday suite

Mint Aero

I've a 264 year old bottle of wine.
A 188 year old cognac.
A coin from the 17th century.
A Greek bust circa 1266 BC.

emeldc

uch wrote: »

I've been wearing the same pair of Underpants since 1981, the multi coloured paisley ones, does that count

Shrap

I have my first schoolbag still. I'd show you a picture cos it's so cool, but my camera needs recharging. It was red patent "leather" (actually some weird kind of cardboard type stuff, no idea) with reflectors on the snap clips (old metal ones, not like the plastic ones now). Hard to describe. I should take a picture

MetzgerMeister

Batman (1989) on VHS my parents bought me in 1990 when I was 5! I fvcken loved Batman and I still have that video along with Batman Returns that they bought me in 1992 when it came out.

Shenshen

The thing I've owned the longest is a batic picture of 3 purple elephants.
Sounds horrible, but it's a really nice piece of African art. My mom's best friend was a nurse and went to Kenya with Medecins sans Frontieres for a few years in the 70s. She had to leave just a few days before I was born.
So when she got the news that her best friend had a baby girl, she went to a market and bought me a few presents - some clothes, a protective goddess carving on a necklace, and that piece of batic. All the other things have been lost over time, the clothes I grew put of so they were given to charity, the goddess I lost on a night out when I was at university, but I still have the batic.

It's always been hanging in my room when I was small, and these days it's in a lovely frame over our dining table. I still love the elephants as much as I always have.

The oldest thing I've got is an old amunition chest. My great-great-grandfather "brought it home with him" when he was demobilised after WW I - well, technically we think he nicked it, but I don't think they were taking that too seriously at the time.
It had been sitting in my grandparents garage for decades and was used for gardening stuff. But then my mom went in search of a hobby and found Bauernmalerei (a particular style of painting on wood found mostly in Bavaria, Austria and parts of Switzerland), and she painted the chest a lovely blue with a very nice floral pattern.
But times moved on, and at one point my mom got sick of it, it didn't fit with the style of her apartment any more, so I took it to safe it from being just thrown out.
It's in our kitchen now, holding kitchen towels, table cloths and other stuff. And it's still absolutely beautiful.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

I have a 1944 Shilling given to me at my christening, also 1944, by an aunt and a bottle sent home by an uncle in 1916 during WW1. He was killed in Oct that year, so it is very special to us.

MRnotlob606

I have a World War 1 belt buckle that belonged to my grandfathers friend who was shot dead in the neck.