The oldest thing you own.

[Moist Happenings]

I've never been accused of being overly sentimental, and as such I haven't retained a whole lot of stuff from my childhood. However, I was cleaning my mother's garage the other day and I came across the oldest thing I own: A souvenir copy of the Declaration of Independence I got from the Franklin Institute on a field trip in 2nd grade.

What's the oldest thing you still have in your possession? Antiques like your great great grandmother's sewing machine don't count unless they were given to you when you were younger and you don't have anything still that you had before that.

[Revalos]

I still wear my dad's old self-winding Seiko watch. 31 years old and still ticking, he gave it to me when I was 7.

[Allereli]

What's the oldest thing you still have in your possession? Antiques like your great great grandmother's sewing machine don't count unless they were given to you when you were younger and you don't have anything still that you had before that.

my mom gave me my baby jewelry last year. So I have an ivory teething ring and a cross from my baptism. I think those are the oldest things in there.

[Moist Happenings]

my mom gave me my baby jewelry last year. So I have an ivory teething ring and a cross from my baptism. I think those are the oldest things in there.

I think unless somebody carries their umbilical cord around in their wallet you win for oldest thing. :D

[Sean of the Thread]

I've got my grandfather's tie clips, money clips, pocket watch and cuff links.

[Hips]

I still have the blanket that my parents brought home from the hospital in. One of my great-aunts knit it, and it's still in really good condition.

[Stretch]

I still have my Atari from like 1st grade

[Revalos]

I don't have it anymore, but I did eat part of a piece of rum cake a few years back that had been in a big freezer in my grandparents garage since my 6 month birthday (or whatever it would be called). A quarter century of freezer burn FTW!

[Nieninque]

I have a kings silver jubilee edition of the daily mirror from 1935.
It's pretty interesting to see photos of Hitler in the way they were reported then. If only they knew...

[DeV]

I still have my very first computer; Apple IIc along with a fairly large collection of 3.5 floppy disks.

[Sean of the Thread]

I've got the Life magazine from the Kennedy assassination and a Look magazine about Nixon.

It's really funny to thumb through it. Every other page is a whiskey/scotch/bourbon or a cigarette ad. Oh they do mix it up with a Chevy, Ford or Chrysler ad.

[Moist Happenings]

I have a kings silver jubilee edition of the daily mirror from 1935.
It's pretty interesting to see photos of Hitler in the way they were reported then. If only they knew...

Now I want to make it clear that I don't want to start another "No YOUR mother is fatter" argument with you, but you bring up an interesting point. I really don't think Hitler should be painted in any worse light than a lot of other politicians, some of your own and some of our own included. At the extreme bad end of the spectrum of course, but it was inevitable that a regime like his would rise to power after the way we decided to handle Germany post World War I, basically taking everything they had and turning them into a third world country. Of course the term third world country didn't exist back then, but the general idea is the same. I think he was a political genius, and yes, a bit mad, and he definitely erred on the side of evil, but that rings true for a lot of the powers in World War II itself.

[Tisket]

I'm going to pretend I read Neff's last post. Much like I do most of his posts.

Anyway, other than my husband, the oldest thing I own would be my grandma's console sewing machine.

[Allereli]

I don't have it anymore, but I did eat part of a piece of rum cake a few years back that had been in a big freezer in my grandparents garage since my 6 month birthday (or whatever it would be called). A quarter century of freezer burn FTW!

Rum cake FTW!

[Parkbandit]

I have a Spiderman comic book from November 1964 that my father put away for me when I was born.

[Stretch]

I have a Spiderman comic book from November 1964 that my father put away for me when I was born.

Your father could time travel?

[Trouble]

Of my own stuff, my mom saved all my baby teeth and a lock of hair from my first haircut and returned them to me a couple of years ago.

Of stuff that was given to me, I have a travel trunk that belonged to my great aunt and is probably from the 1930's. I have a couple of other things that I'm not sure how old they actually are.

[TheRoseLady]

I have a patchwork quilt baby blanket that was my Dad's when he was a baby back in the 20's.

One of my favorite items is the veil I wore when I made my First Communion.

[AestheticDeath]

I have some old books that are like from the 1700s or something stupid.

[Praefection]

The oldest thing that was personally mine is a stuffed dog I had when I was a few years old. I remember carrying that thing around forever and listening to it play music. So I'd say it's about 25 years give or take one or two. Oh, yeah his name is Jack! :)

When my grandmother died last year all of my family went through her place to decide what they wanted. At the end of it all there was this curio type deal no one wanted/could bring back home filled with various pieces of glass. IE: bowls and plates, nothing special but I could remember her having that stuff when we first moved to Montana when I was 7. It was depressing to think that that was all her stuff and no one wanted it so my mom okay'd me taking a lot of it out and I have it set up in my place now. I don't know how old it is or if it's even special but she was a relatively cold and very private woman. She'd collected this for a reason and I didn't want pieces of her life to end up in the dump.

[Stanley Burrell]

Petrified wood given to me by Raptor Jesus, our Lord and prehistoric savior.

Also, since I think I will never meet anyone here, my baby shoes: Please forgive the ghey; my mom would stab and shoot me if I threw them away, she's made that pretty clear with her Jew-hoarding instinct combined with a fiery Argentine wannabe-a-Spaniard inferiority complex. Argh.

[DCSL]

I'm not too overly sentimental myself so... I dunno if it counts. My grandmother saved almost everything from my babyhood, short of my dirty diapers. No! Wait! She has one of my old diaper cloths (my mother used cloth diapers) still, although it's clean. Along with my rattle, my crib blankets that she crocheted herself, my favorite teething ring, my baby shoes, et cetera.

These things are all still in her possession and likely to stay there. If she tries to give them to me, I will throw 'em out or give them away to all the chicks I know giving birth lately. My place is crowded with action figures as it is, I don't need more useless stuff.

Of the things that are actually physically with me, I think the oldest is a stuffed toy dog named Pepe. If I didn't sleep with my boyfriend, I think I'd still be sleeping with Pepe at twenty-seven.

[Mighty Nikkisaurus]

I have a lot of stuff that was handed down to me.. I have a music box collection that I inherited from my mother and she got a lot of them when she was a little girl.

I think the thing I'm most attached to though my teddy bear Matt, who I got when I got pwned by a car as a toddler. He's still in really good condition, too!

[Shari]

My dad got me a stuffed Sylvester when I was probably 3. He's ragged as fuck but still without holes (my mom may have sewn him up a few times though) and his one plastic button eye was bitten off by a dog of mine (that I ended up giving away due to my devastating damage to my toy, not to mention he tried to attack anyone coming through our front door, but anyway...) And as Dex mentioned, if I wasn't married I'd been sleeping with him still at 27 years old. :D

The oldest thing given to me is likely a pump-foot sewing machine we got when Scott's Mom died. Its all wood with cast iron legs and foot pedal. The whole thing turns upside down and hides in the desk-like design making it a table-top for our hallway. I wish I knew how old it was.

Oh, I forgot...I also have a 1917 Kohler cast iron claw foot bathtub and matching sink that Scott's grandmother gave us from her house when it was first built. Notice a trend? He comes from a family of packrats and they ALL save EVERYTHING. Unfortunately for him, I'm not that sentimental so I pretty much avoid my attic, where every single thing Scott has ever touched in his lifetime is up there. :)

[Kitsun]

I have a Superman shirt that I used to run around in when I was like 3. My family says I wore it forever but it looks brand spanking new. I've got it hanging from my ceiling now.

[Sean of the Thread]

Do crabs count?

[Some Rogue]

I owned PB's mom last night. That's fucking ancient.

[Sean of the Thread]

wow

[Drew]

Civil War diary from my ancestor Archelaus Madison Dace III (fought for the South of course).

[Sean of the Thread]

Oh cool. Have you scanned it or such?

Post it you confederate traitor I'm interested.

[Parkbandit]

I owned PB's mom last night. That's fucking ancient.

She probably walked in on your nightly circle jerk with your boyfriends. I doubt you owned her in a sexual way.. being that she's a female.

:P

[Drew]

Oh cool. Have you scanned it or such?

Post it you confederate traitor I'm interested.



I'm typing it up actually. The writing is really arcane cursive and the text hasn't held up very well (it was written on cheap paper) I can't read every other word, my mom is pretty good at it, we've been working at it on and off for a few years now when we can get together but it's been slow going.

I'll try to find what I've typed so far, it's mostly a lot of foul language and talking about whores.

[Sean of the Thread]

Rofl awesome.


<---history buff

[Brattt8525]

My mother sent me the outfit/dress I was baptised in, in hopes I would have my children baptised in it. I guess I failed since neither of my kids were baptised.

[Sean of the Thread]

Lies.

Everyone knows the oldest thing you own is your mullet.

[CrystalTears]

My "piggie" bank is a bloodhound that I've had since I was five.

[Audriana]

And as Dex mentioned, if I wasn't married I'd been sleeping with him still at 27 years old. :D

I have a stuffed bear that my grandmother made me when I was 1 year old, I sleep with it to this day.

Occasionally, I have dreams that I carry it around and am embarassed at the looks I get.

The thing is only like 30% covered in fur. Under it's little tail has the only semi-prestine fur left on it. My sister got one too, but she was 7 when she got hers so it didn't click as much as it did with me. I own that one now too.

I've thought about switching the stuffing between the two and sleeping with the fuzzy one since the only reason it doesn't feel right is because the cotton isn't squashed into a hard lump.



Other than that, I have a level owned by my grandfather (Who died 15 years before I was born). I'm not sure if it's 100% level anymore, but I use it just the same. I'd rather everything in my house be somewhat crooked and use my grandfather's level than get everything perfect without it.

[DCSL]

Hmm, my stuffed dog is still in relatively good shape. He could probably be restuffed but he has all his eyes and fur. He got occasional holes because, hell, I rarely spent a night without him from when I got him to age twenty. Even when I traveled, he went with me. XD Foreign country, camping in the desert, whatever. Pepe was there.

My boyfriend lets me sleep with Pepe occasionally, when I'm sick or really really really stressed out/depressed.

[Brattt8525]

Lies.

Everyone knows the oldest thing you own is your mullet.

Pardon me but how old are you again? Hey go shave some more shit in your fat buddies paased out head. Which was slightly amusing until one realizes your not a teen or young 20ish person.

[Sean of the Thread]

Mullet blast 20
Bratt's retort 0

[RichardCranium]

My wife.

[Brattt8525]

Mullet blast 20
Bratt's retort 0

Oh Sean of The my life is fucked up, your retort wounded me. I would not think anyone with half a brain cell would take anything you say seriously. Look at your life, you can't accomplish much of anything except make some stupid ass insults on a message board.

How long have you been making stupid comments to me? 3 plus years? LOL LOL this coming from some waste of skin who lets a cripple who pissed in his car suck his dick, can't keep a family together and drinks himself into such a stupor he can't find his bottle? Oh lets not forget some childish posts on how your going to shave your fat passed out buddies head LOL.

Meanwhile you have nothing better to do then to make lame mullet remarks to me? I find that hysterical quite honestly and something I would see coming from a teen in HS, not a grown man <I use the term grown quite loosely>

My only advice is try fixing your fucked up life with the same fervor you show in posting stupid shit and your black cloud of shit might go away.

[Moist Happenings]

Sean, or anyone, if you're interested, I still have a copy of part of Lord Cornwallis' diary that my parents found when they were renovating my childhood home in Lawrenceville. If you're familiar with the area, Lawrenceville used to be Queenstown, and my old house was a temporary headquarters for the Revolutionary army during the war. It came complete with hidden slave cubicles in the attic and a tunnel under the road to the church across the street from the basement.

Also ghosts. No joke.

[diethx]

I own my dad's baby ring from when he was around a year old, and I wear it as a toe ring. He was born in 1936.

My mom gave me my baby jewelry too a few years back... and I have two of my mom's old rings that my dad gave her back in the 70's (both gold, one with a large opal inset and the other with sapphires).

also...


Your father could time travel?

lol

[Drew]

Sean, or anyone, if you're interested, I still have a copy of part of Lord Cornwallis' diary that my parents found when they were renovating my childhood home in Lawrenceville.


That sounds awesome, is he a family relation?

[ViridianAsp]

I still have my baby blanket that my great grandmother gave me.

[Sean of the Thread]

How long have you been making stupid comments to me? 3 plus years?

Meanwhile you have nothing better to do then to make lame mullet remarks to me? I find that hysterical quite honestly and something I would see coming from a teen in HS, not a grown man <I use the term grown quite loosely>



Bratt's highschool yearbook picture.

http://www.jimdriscoll.net/images/mullet.jpg


Oh chill out. I'm just fucking with you.. grow some skin (not hair).

[Moist Happenings]

That sounds awesome, is he a family relation?

Haha, no. My parents found it behind one of the walls they knocked out when they were remodeling, along with some old, old newspaper clippings, and a tiny folded paper heart.

[Sean of the Thread]

Sean, or anyone, if you're interested, I still have a copy of part of Lord Cornwallis' diary that my parents found when they were renovating my childhood home in Lawrenceville. If you're familiar with the area, Lawrenceville used to be Queenstown, and my old house was a temporary headquarters for the Revolutionary army during the war. It came complete with hidden slave cubicles in the attic and a tunnel under the road to the church across the street from the basement.

Also ghosts. No joke.

Sweet. Sounds like my old house in upstate NY complete with trap door slave cubicles and Lincoln used it for a couple of weeks as a HQ.

You win for having a tunnel however.

You say a copy of the diary or is it the actual diary? If it's actual diary I want it! Although I can only pay in natty ice at the moment.

[Drew]

I will pay in dollars LOL. That's a pretty cool relic.

[Sean of the Thread]

Save your money for your Key West trips. I got dibs on the diary.

[Moist Happenings]

Sweet. Sounds like my old house in upstate NY complete with trap door slave cubicles and Lincoln used it for a couple of weeks as a HQ.

You win for having a tunnel however.

You say a copy of the diary or is it the actual diary? If it's actual diary I want it! Although I can only pay in natty ice at the moment.

It's pages from his original diary. I'll ask my mother tomorrow where she has it kept.

Also, they didn't actually know they had a tunnel until they'd lived there for about 8 years (About a year before I was born I think it was). Some guy knocked on the door and asked if he could take a pickaxe into the basement because he thought there was a tunnel there. Turns out there was. The house itself is absolutely huge. 3 stories, plus basement obviously. It was big enough that they rented out seven rooms in the place constantly. That house was like a hotel. Used to be called the Queenstown Tavern.

[Augie]

I have the dress from when I was baptized in my closet right now. It's going to be used next weekend when we hold Daliana's baptism. That dress is 28 years old and still in its original box.

I also have a Pound Puppy that I've had since I was 4 (he's 24 years old). I got it when I went to Toys R Us with my mom and she said I could pick 1 item out. That sucker was 20 bucks back in 1984.

[DCSL]

Neff, that's sheer awesomeness. Your parents = cool as hell.

[Kyra231]

My great grandfather's medals from the Spanish-American war.

[MotleyCrew]

Hmmm, I have my grandmothers wallet that she made herself, its beautiful.

My husband and my wedding/engagement rings were my parents.

I also have my baptism dress, my first communion dress and veil, and my prom dress...not sure if my confirmation dress is in there or not...

[ElanthianSiren]

my great grandfather's mining tag on my keyring.

[Proxy]

I've a few things that are rather old...

1) Japanese Sword Blade. by the makers mark it is aprox 220 years old

2) a collection of decorative Japanese Arrow Heads. Various, I think the oldest one is about 160 years old

3) a very small collection of coins. One of which is a silver coin that is about 400 years old.

4) a decent collection of tribal/demon/ghost/etc masks. Oldest of which is an African ghost mask that is about 80 years old.

5) a partial suit of European plate armor. aprox 300 years old.

6) an antique gold star of David necklace that's been around forever, and I wear, I'm not sure how old it actually is. Pre WWII though.

7) what’s left of a Viking sword. in bad enough shape that if it wasn't mounted in a display box it would look like little more then a lump of rust. Its old but I'm not sure it if its authentic. Looks cool as hell on my wall though.

8) a small collection of magatama and other talismans. there carved rocks, so there really really old. just not sure on how long they've been magatama, etc. :)

[Augie]

I just realized that I had something older than my Pound Puppy...my Christening dress.

My mom gave it to me recently and my daughter wore it for her baptism last month. That's 28 years old.

My mom also has her wedding dress and my grandma's wedding dress...which will one day make their way to me and eventually my daughter.

[Ashliana]

Hm. I have a Nintendo bag (carrying case for the original NES) that was made in 1986. I think that's the oldest thing I personally have, but I also have (though not at my apartment) the hand-painted china that my great-grandmother made in the 1920s.

[Adequate Picker]

Christmas ornaments me and my brother made about 40 years ago.

[Gan]

Confederate Silver Certificates

186x Silver dollars

1894 Marlin 44.40 lever action rifle (still works)

Turn of the century lawyers bookcase (has original blown glass (has ripples))

*For the OP:
My infant baby shoes.
A flour mold of my hand when I was 3 years old made to be a Christmas decoration.

[Killer Kitten]

I have a little plastic cat that was part of our Christmas stuff. My sister remembers it from when she was very small, so it's at least 60.

I have my grandfather's rocker and my dad's WWII medals, but the cat is the oldest thing that was mine.

[Moist Happenings]

Confederate Silver Certificates

186x Silver dollars

1894 Marlin 44.40 lever action rifle (still works)

Turn of the century lawyers bookcase (has original blown glass (has ripples))

That's awesome on the Confederate Silver Certificates Gan. I used to have some regular silver certificates from the early 1900s I think, but Any Civil War stuff is awesome.

[Ignot]

Remember when cell phones first came out? I still have one, its a black one that weighs like 5 lbs. i don't know why i kept it all these years. Its in storage so Im not taking a pic of it but it looks like this except black.

2464

[Moist Happenings]

I've got one of the old car phones that were attached to the big bag that you plugged into the cigarette lighter. Those things were awesome.

[Jorddyn]

Oldest thing I got new: The blanket one of my mom's friends made for me when I was born.

Oldest thing: My bedroom set is probably circa early 1900s.

Oldest thing I'm sure of the date on: Found a 1944 quarter the other day.

Oldest thing in my family: Great great grandfather's furniture that crossed the Atlantic with him, which currently resides in my parents' spare bedroom.

[Amber]

Oldest thing I own is a fossil shell I found walking on a newly graded dirt road a few years ago.

Oldest man-made thing I own is a stone tool of unknown function from either the Woodland or Mississipian period. I think it's probably a pestle, but I'm not sure.

Oldest thing that I'm sure of the date on is a set of Homer Laughlin china from 1929.

Oldest thing I got new has to be a pictures of me as a kid, I guess. I tend to not hold on to very many things.