Your oldest possession?

Nomis21 · 11-02-2016 03:33PM #1

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 · 11-02-2016 03:34PM

Silver bracelet I got for my communion.

Sonderkommando · 11-02-2016 03:48PM

Great grandfather's pocket watch.

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

knucklehead6 · 11-02-2016 03:54PM

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 · 11-02-2016 03:55PM

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 · 11-02-2016 03:55PM

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 · 11-02-2016 03:59PM

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 · 11-02-2016 04:00PM

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.

11-02-2016 04:01PM

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.

11-02-2016 04:05PM

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 · 11-02-2016 04:08PM

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.

11-02-2016 04:09PM

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

I bet your first pet was a dinosaur :pac:

Winty · 11-02-2016 04:11PM

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 · 11-02-2016 04:14PM

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

MistyCheese · 11-02-2016 04:17PM

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

11-02-2016 04:18PM

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

dandyelevan · 11-02-2016 04:20PM

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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 · 11-02-2016 04:23PM

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 · 11-02-2016 04:24PM

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 · 11-02-2016 04:26PM

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

11-02-2016 04:33PM

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 · 11-02-2016 04:35PM

My wife

RayM · 11-02-2016 04:38PM

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

Ken. · 11-02-2016 04:38PM

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 · 11-02-2016 04:41PM

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 · 11-02-2016 04:45PM

Apart from my girlfriend

a vintage Omega Geneve.

emeldc · 11-02-2016 04:47PM

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 · 11-02-2016 04:49PM

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 · 11-02-2016 04:50PM

Prostitution.

Wait - sorry thought you said oldest profession

My oldest possession would be a prostitute I own.

RikkFlair · 11-02-2016 04:53PM

Orbis World Cup 1990 sticker album.

Maguined · 11-02-2016 04:55PM

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.

Your oldest possession?

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