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Post by Deleted on Dec 21, 2017 18:36:26 GMT
D9's thread about presents got me thinking about the ownership of objects and what items people still own from when they were younger.
I'll exclude inherited items.
For me its a stainless steel folding penknife I bought in Falmouth in 1991 when I was 17. I don't have anything I have owned from before that.
Anyone have anything which has been with them a long time?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 21, 2017 18:49:20 GMT
A bit strange but a genuine reply.
The item I've had for the longest time is my Birth Certificate - I obtained it at about 16/17 yrs old - just wanted to make sure I wasn't adopted...
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Post by Deleted on Dec 21, 2017 18:56:22 GMT
That's a good point. I borrowed my birth certificate from my mother when I was 16 and altered it so that I could get the half price rail fare for going to school. She gave me the money to buy the season ticket I got a copy of the birth certificate and I modified the year which was allowed by the man selling the ticket and I pocketed the saved money. I've still got the original but it went back to my mother after I did the forged copy so has not been in my ownership continually.
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Post by thebfg on Dec 21, 2017 19:21:14 GMT
I sadly do not have anything from my child hood. Except for a couple of cherished photos.
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Post by dyertribe on Dec 21, 2017 19:49:46 GMT
I have my first teddy, which I was given at 4 weeks old. He’s looking a little battered now, but so am I, I suppose.
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Post by patty on Dec 21, 2017 19:50:27 GMT
I have a tiny tabby grey metal cat...I was given it at a jumble sale when I was 11...dunno what the metal is but its an item I really love...
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Post by phil70 on Dec 21, 2017 21:02:30 GMT
I still have and use a 4oz ball pein hammer which was my Dad's and I reckon it's near 100 years old and yes still works just fine. Phil
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Post by Jim on Dec 21, 2017 21:03:19 GMT
A pair of clogs from when I was 2. And possibly my first curl of hair somewhere.
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Post by bodger on Dec 21, 2017 21:06:35 GMT
memories.....
.............. oh, and a glass phial of lead pellets removed from my chest in 1980.
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Post by Jim on Dec 21, 2017 21:16:04 GMT
memories..... .............. oh, and a glass phial of lead pellets removed from my chest in 1980. they told you not to go out after that panto in Norfolk, you know, when you were playing Mother goose.
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Post by Trina on Dec 21, 2017 22:06:08 GMT
A rather scruffy teddy dating back to 1961 when I went into hospital for an eye op aged 2yrs 9 months.Again from 1961,a dolls'china tea service still in the original box complete with straw !
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Post by bettina on Dec 21, 2017 23:34:11 GMT
a pair of yellow knit baby booties & a satin bound baby blanket which I was wrapped in when Dad & mum brought me home from the hospital in the early 60's
I have a few bits & pieces which are much older, but they were inherited
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Post by Jim on Dec 22, 2017 9:57:52 GMT
The oldest things are an olivine axe head, unfinished,7000yr old maybe, I found near Treaddur Bay on Anglesey and a large fossil clam, like a small football, from Runswick Bay, 185 million years old.
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Post by peterboat on Dec 22, 2017 10:06:17 GMT
I have the first Christmas card I made for my Mum and Dad. Mum had saved it like they do and now every year it comes out for Christmas. I have lots of other old and very valuable stuff but nothing as precious as that card, its in the grab bag if I ever have to leave the boat fast.
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Post by Graham on Dec 22, 2017 11:18:16 GMT
I have the oil nav lights port, starboard and stern that came off the second boat I owned in the late 50's. Oh just thought a GPO Telcoms tool wallet from my first job at 17, 1958.
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