Sentimental objects

[Kendhni]

Are you a sentimental type?

I would fall into the category of 'no', once something has served it's purpose I can quite happily throw it out without a second thought.

However this morning I sadly broke my Parker pen. This pen was given me by my parents when I passed my 11-plus exam and took me through grammar school, uni and working life .. it is about 40 years old now. I have to admit to a certain sadness as I took the half used refill out of it and threw rest of it in the bin .. and then ordered a new one from Amazon.

[Andrea S]

They may not be classed as sentimental but I have 3 weddings rings which I could never ever part with.
They belonged to my Husband, my Daughter and my Son.

[Dancing Queen]

I'm not in the least sentimental about possessions although I do still have my engagement ring from my first marriage, I haven't consciously kept it and I don't wear it, I guess one day my niece will inherit it but it is quite small compared to engagement rings today and I think she has her sights set on some of my better jewellery.

[Romig1]

I have a sideboard which was owned by my grandparents and reminds me of them. And a bureau from a Great Aunt. I wouldn't like to part with them.

[Frank Manning]

I have the ring which Sue bought me when we got engaged, it has our initials and the date of our engagement engraved on it. I wore it until recently but now I am thinking of having it built up a bit because over the past 51 years it has become a bit thin.

I have the reference which my last ship's captain wrote for me, and the accompanying letter.

Our son's racing bike which I ride occasionally, and the bookcase and the cabinet which he made at woodwork at school. Several of his letters, books and photos.

Actually I am a big softie, and so is Sue, that is why we still have so much junk, which we keep 'just in case'. Sue has a real retro Queen Anne chest of drawers which was her Nans. It has pride of place in our lounge, and she couldn't bear to get rid of it, although close inspection would reveal its many faults; candle burns etc.

[Delboy]

My wife is extremely sentimental and has lots of things from her family she keeps. I never had the opportunity of keeping anything sentimental from my family.

Examples of things my wife has, all her Granfathers medals (not the military medal though,her nan sold that), plus his pocket watches and other memorabilia relating to his military days. She has all her mothers jewellery and photo's and lots of other nicks and knacks, which she will not get rid of. Teddy bears, annuals, 78LP's all from when she was young.

We have a Bureau which belonged to her aunt (god mother), which we use. Although we have a extendable dining table and chairs in our dining room, we also have a double drop leaf gate leg table, which was her mothers, which we use for our day to day to day meals.

She also has loads of bits, photo's, letters and Jewellery, which belonged to her god mother. I would add my wife was an only child, from a single parent family, although they lived with her Grandparents, her God Mother never had any children

[gfwgfw]

Betty has nursed and cared for her late mothers potted "Maiden Hair Fern" for the last 19 years, it has now been passed into the care her favourite niece's tender hands, a lasting memory of her Aunt and Nanny - How nice is that

Graham

[gfwgfw]

Dellboy

Again I am extremely touched by your posts

You are a "top man" in my book

Graham

[haveabeer]

Just before our best friends emigrated to spain they gave us a scraggy plant they wanted us to look after it as they had grown it from seed
when we got home i said to me its ready for the bin my wife was less harsh
After a year we heard that the wife had died so the plant stayed and now 10 years later its still scraggy but dont have the heart to throw it out

The most sentimental thing i have is my dads old broken watch he asked me to have it repaired but a week later he died i never had it repaired just hangs in my shed

[Gill W]

I'm not wildly sentimental, but I have kept a few object that are particularly special, which remind me of my parents and nan.

I do have these objects on display or in use.

Immediately after my parents died, at the time I was clearing the house, I didn't know what to keep and what to pass on, so I brought home far too many things, which stayed in my loft for years.

In the last couple of years I've eBayed many of these things, and it is pleasing that someone out there is now enjoying them.

Graham, I took a load of cuttings from my day's garden, which now live in my garden. It is a nice, happy feeling when they bloom each year.

[CaroleF]

I have a very ancient Cadbury's Box which contained chocolates. It's very tatty and it's the one my father gave my mother when he first took her out to the cinema which would have been in about 1938! Just can't get rid of it.

I also still have my mother's fur coat (not PC these days) which my father gave her on their Silver Wedding - don't suppose it will ever get worn but again can't get rid of it.

Carole

[suespud]

I recently started "disposing" of all the stuff I had belonging to my mam.
Still have quite a bit to go.

But things I will never part with are her button box... I can remember so many of the clothes where the buttons have come from.
Her birthday candle box.. comes out whenever a candle is needed.
Her sewing box, it replaced mine and will be passed on to my daughter.
Over the years before she died, she passed on quite a bit stuff to me, ornaments, her collections, her gardening books.
They now are "my" bits I guess.
She was a very keen historian, local and more.
So have quite a few books etc.
She collected old books too, especially poetry books.
My daughter has her cushions.. getting a bit thread bare, but my mam taught her to sew (and crochet) so she is patching them up.

I have all her jewellery.
Well, daughter has her engament and wedding rings.

We also have my dads caps and bowling caps and bowling cards and his wallet, glasses and a lock of his hair.

[Stephen]

A sad day on Friday. Please have tissues at the ready

I had to finally throw out some linen shorts that had worn out. In my opinion they were just getting comfortable and had years left in them. But Mam Saab had other ideas.

I wouldn't say they were old, but somehow the British museum got wind I was throwing them out and are showing an interest

[Quizzical Bob]

Was the wind blowing in their direction?

[Anne D]

My mother kept all the following which I found after she died when we were clearing out her house.

All my birthday cards from age 1 to 10.
My first exercise books from Kindergarten and school reports.
My wedding veil and headdress plus a sugar bride and groom from the wedding cake.

I still have them in a cupboard as I hadn't the heart to throw them out so I suppose sentimentality runs in the family.

Anne

[clairemarie55]

I have the last birthday and Christmas card that my mum gave me before she died,
Also the glass cake stand that she gave me which was my grandmothers,,this has started a collection and now have I some lovely ones.
Iv kept the little ornaments that my daughter's have brought me back from school trips.
And also some Christmas decorations that I bought from Woolies with my pocket money .My sister has my mums button box which we played with when we were kids and for a time until wood worm intervened, mums wooden clothes horse.

[Boris+]

I have three special little photos, and I keep them safe in a drawer.

Em

[Capt Black]

I've got my dad's Merchant Navy seaman's identity book. It's a bit like a passport, as well as having immigration stamps, it's got stamps from the ships he sailed on, back in the day.

[Meg 50]

when I was quite little I bought my mum a snazzy knitting needle holder which I've always hankered after.... When time took over and she could no longer knit I asked nicely...


The lady who should have been my Godmother was my Dad's cousin, but she died a couple of months before I was born. When her mum (my great aunt) died 12 years later I was given several bits and pieces of my 'nearly God mother's'.
Amazingly, my Junior daughter (JD) shares 'nearly Godmother's' birthday, so all that stuff is now earmarked for her.... JD is deeply underwhelmed by it, so I suspect it'll be recycled when the time comes!