What thing have you owned the longest?

[316zombie]

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.

[FatFreddysCat]

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

[Allhallowsday]

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. 

[Chainsawmidget]

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. 



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.   

[RCMerchant]

You



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.


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.

[Alex]

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.  



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.    

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

[bob]

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.

[AoTFan]

I don't normally keep stuff for too terribly long-- sentimental value and all that other b.s. doesn't usually jive with me--

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

:)

[Allhallowsday]

 

 

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... 

[RCMerchant]

Groovy, man!  
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.  )
Back on topic! OH! The cool skeletons! I love those things!

[RCMerchant]

 

 

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... 

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.