Your oldest possession?

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

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

cnocbui wrote: »

Does a fossilised dinosaur tooth count?

No..

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

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.

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

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.

A return of the jedi annual I can still remember buying it, for something like 10p. Its worth thousands.....
but not mine, i colored and doodled in every page.

Prob my Ireland Euro '88 jersey that I got when I was 10.....still fits

Probably my tape recordings off the radio (or sometimes pretend radio shows) from maybe 21 / 22 years ago. Can take them out and play them again if I have a cassette player.

My Great Grandfathers Black and Tan Comrac Bar medal that my own Grandfather gave to me. Proud of it but not sure when it issued exactly!