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Ya know- besides the scar you got when you were 5.
I mean THING. Stuff. Ya know.

I have a cast iron squirrel bank I've had since 1970. I found it in the attic of the old farmhouse we moved into. I still keep pennies in it.
It's been through hell. I had to Gorilla Glue the base back on, because the steal is actually eroding and cracking.

I don't normally keep stuff for too terribly long-- sentimental value and all that other b.s. doesn't usually jive with me-- but I've got old sets of baseball, basketball and football cards that I almost completed from around 1990 or so.  Pro Set Football, Upper Deck Baseball, and Hoops Basketball.  That's probably my oldest possession.  Got some old valuable sports cards I got a little later.  Other stuff I lose or it gets moldy or cobwebby and I just toss it.  I generally don't keep old stuff.

The house had been empty since sometime in the 50's, so in the GIANT upstairs bedroom me and my older brother Mike shared, was an old toy chest with cast iron soldiers, an old school desk, which had a drawer on the bottom packed with old 1950's Superman, Jimmy Olsen, Batman, and  some old Atlas monster comics. In the attic Dad found and old pea coat with a Carson City silver dollar, I found my squerril bank and a chalk skull shaped candle holder (!) and my Teddy Bear- who I named Eddy.

Probably a couple of Hot Wheels cars that I got since 96/97.

I keep s**t if I can. I have furniture since 1989, because I had it when the kids were born, and it's in good shape. And most of that was made in the 1940's or earlier.  I mean like my shelves and wooden chairs. Couches and beds- nah. I'm talking china cabinets or old chest of drawers.

Oh- I keep certain books too.
Actually, all the books. I have to have my libarey for my kids.
If the wanna sell 'em. Fine. There's some first editions there.  :thumbup:

Heh... probably a couple of Halloween plastic buckets from 45 years ago... but I have older photos...  and I have the Teddy bear that one day my father ran after the garbage truck yelling "Don't take Teddy...!!"  I guess I was about 5... meaning over 50 years ago!  I'd left my Teddy the afternoon before on top of the garbage can...   :smile:

A teddy Bear since you were 5. That predates the bank I have since I was 8 in 1970!
So that would have been about 1967! Holy s**t!

Ever since I was born, I was always wrapped in this cozy (and extremely comfortable) red feather-filled quilt and I still use it to this day. Although, most of the feathers squeezed their way through the fabric so it could certainly use a re-fill at this point. I'll always treasure it though, even if it's just a quilt.  :teddyr:

I have a homemade quilt for about 30 years. I don't know how old it is.  :thumbup:

Older... for one thing, he was old when he got left behind... outside the back door... about 20 miles, eh yards (feet) away... 

Than you've had it, like, always?
That's cool. No, the oldest thing I've owned is that squrill bank from 1970. But I still have s**t from the 80's and on.

I have a book that I was given when I was born that had been my granddads It's called the 'The Boys & Girls Book Of 1937', although I guess it is now Ash's and no longer mine.

I have my first toy I ever got: the day my folks adopted me officially, Dad bought me a bear which I still have and that means I've had it 50 years.

It always goes with me on a trip.  :smile:

I have a carved wooden giraffe statue from Africa that our neighbor, who was a merchant sailor, gave me when I was 5.  So that would be from about 1969.

my paring knife. my da bought it for me for my 6th birthday. at this point, the edge is so thin you can almost see through it. it will be 51 this year.

I still have the first few Marvel Comics I bought off the newsstand when I started collecting in 1980 - I was 10 years old. An issue of Star Wars and a Rom: Spaceknight.

I don't remember their issue #'s off the top of my head and I'm too lazy to go dig them out of the closet to look em up, but I know the Star Wars comic was the first issue of their 6-part adaptation of "Empire Strikes Back."

I sold off the bulk of my comic collection in the late '90s (approx. 5000 books) but I held onto a box full of personal favorites, including those two, because they were the books that started it all for me. Besides, they're so dog-eared and beat to sh** that they wouldn't be worth anything in the condition they're in :D

I don't think I have any actual magazines or comics that survived my childhood, but I do have a few Vermont Life from the 1960s that I have owned about 40 years... later, in the '80s, I started collecting the first 50 issues of CREEPY and EERIE magazine.  I never completed either set, but came across issues of FAMOUS MONSTERS also and I have now sold most of all of those (and that would not include any reader issues from you RON).  The only issues of those three magazines I've kept were issues I had had as a child.  Like FatFreddysCat, I can be sentimental. 

You people have the advantage over me.  You're old.  You've had longer to have stuff. 

The two things I've had longest, I could not tell you how long I've had them.  Early to mid 80s?  (I was born in 1980 for the record.) 

Anyway, one of them is ... this guy. 

(https://i.imgur.com/CG0pQxo.jpg?1)

That's not actually a picture of mine.  Mine has a bit less paint, a bit more chew marks, and some black marker scribbled on his back.  I used to play with him when I played GI Joes, the small Joes.  Not the big Barbie sized ones. 


Another thing I have is a blanket my mother made me, or is it a quilt?  I don't know the difference.  She took a bunch of my old jeans and sewed them together into a blanket.  Then took some fabric for the other side that was my favorite color and was a lot softer, added some stuff in the middle for warmth and thickness.  I don't have a pictutre of that one to show you and frankly, it's worn down to where it doesn't provide a lot of warmth anyway, but I still have it.   

Thats what I'm talkin about.
I have a Hillbilly wrestler figure from the 80'.s  Hillbilly Jim, I think
Sometimes just an old piece of s**t that reminds me of a time.
And sometimes nostalgia is all you got. You young folks will know. Everybody on planet Earth goes through it sooner or later.
Then it's gonna hit you like a brick
YOUR OLD.

All you folks who "live in the day" are ikely already somebody's nostalgia.

Did you have the helicopter and accessories with this guy? I seem to recall his co-pilot being black.

If we're talking about things I grew up with that became mine it's a lot of movies. Growing up my parents had a lot of movies. When my dad moved to Florida the ones he didn't take with him all became mine.

If not it has to be either an old Reggie White Packers jersey I got as a youngster, a couple of things I bought as a kid on school field trips or t-shirts I held onto because they still fit.

Ironic, considering all the Nostalgic video game topics you post on.

:)

(https://i.imgur.com/Y1yKCuw.jpg)  

(https://i.imgur.com/K3KMOyb.jpg)  

I have several of this type skeleton, different sizes, including an early version with a jointed neck... not folded, jointed...earliest packaging is of greatest interest.  

In the largest size, these were typically sold with necks folded.  In these cool pix, they're the medium smaller size (and no neck grommet).  Made by BEISTLE for many years, I think this classic ceased production about 1965.  


Thanks for the pix, RONNIE.  Remind me to tell you my SKELETON or GOBLIN story... 

Groovy, man!  :drink:
I remember when I was a kid in 1968 and we had one of those old skeletons on our door. And in 1970. And then we never had Halloween because we lived in the boonies. It's hard to go trick or treating when you have 5 neighbors within a mile.
That's why I made sure my kids went Trick or Treating every year- (until they got to be teenagers- they just wanted to go out and party. So whatta ya want? They're teenagers. You can't stop 'em. They gotta learn the hard way. If they're smart the'll figure it out.  :hatred:)
Back on topic! OH! The cool skeletons! I love those things!

One thing is for sure- you know your Halloween decorations. You the Man!
And that ain't kissing ass. I've seen the stuff you sell. Amazing.