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

[fuzzybuddy]

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

I have a few. A small Eiffler Tower and "Big Ben" from my trip to Europe, a couple of carved wooden heads from Jamaica, a NYC subway token, & my dad's pocket watch.

 

[hollydolly]

My daughters' baby shoes.. the first leather shoes she was measured for age 18 months...

they're now 48 years old...

 

[MACKTEXAS]

My wife's wedding set

 

[debodun]

I have a house full.

 

[JeeperDon]

All the vanity auto license plates I've had for the past 50 years. All on the wall in my garage/shop.

 

[MaddHollander]

In 1966 my 8th grade math teacher told the class that none of us would succeed in life without mastering the slide rule. I will never part with it. It's a pretty good back scratcher.

 

[Beezer]

There's a little white stuffed animal mouse that has always sat on my Piano Keyboard. We lost 'Mousey' when we moved. I turned the new place upside down and finally found Mousey and returned him to his rightful perch on my Piano.

Phew!

 

[Nathan]

Oscar Meyer Weiner-mobile whistle keepsake, from when the real Weiner-mobile visited for the opening of the first supermarket in our town.

 

[Paladin1950]

Several items that I bought during my 3 visits to London.

 

[dusty]

None here. Only great memories from events over the years.

 

[Della]

A large pink pearl from my brother and his wife's trip to China, a beautiful Alpaca throw from their trip to Peru, an oil painting from their trip to Bali, etc. The warm memories for me are of keeping their sweet dog for them while they traveled.

 

[Aunt Bea]

As I continue to drain the swamp more and more of those keepsakes emerge from the muck!


The thing that I find difficult and interesting is that these things only have special meaning to me.

The moment I die they will instantly lose their magic and become stuff.

 

[-Oy-]

I was abou 6 when my Grandad died. I kept his oak walking stick saying "When I'm an old man and I need a stick it will be this one."
I still have it. Don't need it yet though.

When I was about 12 my Dad gave me an AGFA Isollette II film camera that he bought out in Aden when he was there with the RAF. That's what started me off in Photography.
I still have it. It still takes great photos.

 

[bowmore]

I commissioned a copy of a piece of Steuben glass called Orpheus. The original is worth over $20K. I found an artist who made a copy for me.

 

[Manatee]

On my desk is a foot tall statue of Venus de Milo that I bought in Greece in 1957.

On the wall is my late wife's vanity license plate "MUMSY" that she had on her red MG roadster.

 

[smiley]

got none - what really is the point - takin them to heaven???

 

[Inept]

What are your dearest souvenirs .

I still have every one of my passports. Those, and the visas within, are my only souvenirs. Until recently I had bonsai trees that I created from seeds collected from my travels abroad but due to traumatic, personal circumstances I have none of those left.

 

[Inept]

..... the slide rule. ..... It's a pretty good back scratcher.
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Much better than the abacas I used to have.

 

[Bella]

My most treasured keepsake is my Grandma's rosary beads.

 

[oslooskar]

My fiberglass Klepper Tramp, which I have had for at least 57 years.

 

[Pinky]

I have a pink piggy bank from the Diabetes Foundation Australia from when I lived in Adelaide, SA.
My best g/f brought me a keychain with a mini music box that plays "Sakura", from her visit to Japan.
The square ruby ring that was my mother's, is the most cherished item I have.

 

[Lewkat]

My baby ring.

 

[Dave03]

I have two Christmas decorations. Made with construction paper, popsicle sticks, glitter and pictures of my kids.

They made them in kindergarten.

 

[oslooskar]

My most cherished possession was my expired first passport, which was stolen in 1972 in the Balearic Islands. It had a couple of accordion-style pages filled with stamps and visas—a real collector's item. It was taken along with my valid passport and some other belongings. I was really ticked off.

 

[katlupe]

As I continue to drain the swamp more and more of those keepsakes emerge from the muck!


The thing that I find difficult and interesting is that these things only have special meaning to me.

The moment I die they will instantly lose their magic and become stuff.

I feel exactly the same! My treasured things (which I have many) will end up in the landfill.

I have to say my most treasured would be one of my dolls that I got for Christmas as a child. Next would be 3 ceramic lamps my mother made back in the fifties. I use them all now.