What are your dearest souvenirs, tchotchkes, keepsakes that you won't let go?

Jackie23 said:
Mementoes from family members that have past on... I've told my children and grandchildren the story behind these items, hopefully they'll want them.
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I'm sure some of them will, Jackie. It seems to be a personality trait some have more than others.

I have one or two items I treasure that belonged to my deceased elders -- on the other hand, my son treasures every single thing thing any of them ever touched. "Oh no, that was one of Grandpa's 15 drinking glasses."

So I try to keep my stuff down for him, knowing how it will be.

I do still have my teddy bear I got for my second birthday. He will have to be passed on and saved. He's real.
 

A Foley Food Fork that my mom had all her married life. When the wooden handle broke years and years ago, instead of throwing it away, my dad used the plastic handle from an old screwdriver.

He heated the shaft of the food fork with a blow torch and jammed it down into the screwdriver handle, melting it into place.

I treasure it because it is a great utensil that I use almost daily, it was a lesson from my parents to "make do" and be thrifty, and a reminder of the great pleasure (and skill) my dad had in "jury-rigging" things. He could fix anything....it may not have been attractive but it was fixed.
 
jujube said:
A Foley Food Fork that my mom had all her married life. When the wooden handle broke years and years ago, instead of throwing it away, my dad used the plastic handle from an old screwdriver.

He heated the shaft of the food fork with a blow torch and jammed it down into the screwdriver handle, melting it into place.

I treasure it because it is a great utensil that I use almost daily, it was a lesson from my parents to "make do" and be thrifty, and a reminder of the great pleasure (and skill) my dad had in "jury-rigging" things. He could fix anything....it may not have been attractive but it was fixed.
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Wow. That reminds me that I have, and use daily, my mom's paring knife. One of her wedding presents in 1934.
 
:cry:A little stuffed dolphin that my son won in one of those claw machines back when he was about 4. I'd been out of town for the day, and he was so excited to show it to me that he stayed home from a play date until I got back. He's 23 now. It's still on my nightstand.
 

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