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What is your possession that you have owned for the longest and still have?

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BlueSkyPlease · 09/07/2020 09:22

I'm guessing most people's longest owned possession must be some sort of teddy bear? Am I right? Mine is anyway, given to me on the day I was born and I still have. Looks a bit bedraggled now but I would be gutted to ever lose him!

What is your possession that you have owned for longest?

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IggyAce · 09/07/2020 19:14

I’ve got old bear that I’ve had from childhood and he would have been the oldest thing, until I inherited a necklace (costume jewellery) from dh Nanna, it looks to be from 1940s or 50s.

dementedma · 09/07/2020 19:21

A teddy and a pram toy called Ting a Ling. Also a small wooden desk tidy which my great grandfather made for my grandmother. That must be pretty old.

PurBal · 09/07/2020 19:22

Probably a silver teddy money box I was given at my Christening aged 6 weeks.

CatBatCat · 09/07/2020 19:23

Baby silver bangle with my name engraved. Christening present I think, doesn't fit now of course but I have a very similar silver bangle that I been wearing ever since I was about 13.

Knittedfairies · 09/07/2020 19:30

I think it must be the book I was given as a school prize when I was 7; 'All that Katy did'. I've had it almost 60 years.

sueelleker · 09/07/2020 20:16

A teddy bear that I've had for 60 years.

WhenPushComesToShove · 09/07/2020 20:42

My dear Ted who knows all my secrets. He is very old and has been to the Teddy Bear Hospital to be sympathetically restored. He looks smart now in a 'senior' sort of way

MarshaBradyo · 09/07/2020 20:44

I don’t have my teddy anymore but do have childhood books and dolls house furniture which dd now has

AliasGrape · 09/07/2020 20:51

Sailor Bear - teddy that my dad gave me the day I was born.

That’s the thing I’ve personally owned the longest. I have older things but I’ve only owned them since the original owners passed away and I inherited them. Most sentimental is my mum’s good housekeeping cookery book she received as an engagement gift in 1958.

nitgel · 09/07/2020 21:20

A wooden box with compartments that my dad made with a sliding lid. It was for pencils but I keep make up brushes in it now.

MsMarvellous · 09/07/2020 21:20

My Teddy I've had since the day I was born.

DontBiteTheBoobThatFeedsYou · 09/07/2020 21:27

@Mawbags I'm nearly 38 and they were two of my most favourite toys as a toddler/child.

I'm very very envious that you have those.

DontBiteTheBoobThatFeedsYou · 09/07/2020 21:28

(I can hear his squeak now! "BEEP! BEEEeeep....."

ThinkAboutItTomorrow · 09/07/2020 21:34

@Mawbags I loved that record player! I had one and am jealous you still have it.

I've got my bunny who's seen a lot!

But older still I've got a cigarette holder thing from my nana.

We still use lots of old stuff actually, towels that were my nana's and must be 60 years old and a casserole dish that was part of my mums wedding present, so also about 60. It's lost the decoration but still one of the most solid, useful and best sized things in the kitchen!

LittlemissAWOL · 09/07/2020 21:37

Mine is very random....I still have a plastic folder I used in Spanish lessons at school around 18 years ago (now I feel old!). DS2 is now using it to keep his schoolwork together.

TheFormerPorpentinaScamander · 09/07/2020 21:40

I was going to say my teddy that I got the day I was born, but I've got a sewing table which I was given which is possibly older. The lady who gave me it in in her late 80s and some of the contents were her mothers. I've also got some crochet patterns from the 60s or 70s which I was given at some point.

TeaSoakedDisasterMagnet · 09/07/2020 21:45

Mine is my teddy bear too. I’ve had “her” since I was at least two or three, so about 30 years. Her head came off when I was about 10 (rudely beheaded by my brother because I dropped his action man out of the window) and has been sewn back on several times. She lives on my bedside table and is a bit dusty, but I dare not put her in the wash in case her head comes off again! I love her dearly, and occasionally still cuddle her if I’m having a really truly terrible day.

Prokupatuscrakedatus · 09/07/2020 21:45

A small sandbag doll - I got it when I was 8 so it is fifty this year. My teddy is only 34 or so.

whichteaareyou · 09/07/2020 21:46

A rabbit hot water bottle that I've had since I was 2

RealityBased · 09/07/2020 21:48

My baby blanket. It's a dusty pink and crocheted in fluffy wool. I've "owned" it since before I was even born or a fully developed, viable foetus.

My grandmother made it - and it means the world because, despite being horribly conservative in general and not knowing, she chose pink because she was hoping for me to be a girl when I eventually arrived. Her first grandchild and the result of a scandalous pregnancy of her unmarried daughter to an entirely unsuitable man. Also, she loved to knit but bloody hated crochet. I don't think she ever finished another piece in her life - at least not voluntarily and after leaving school.

I entered this world as that poor woman's worst nightmare - but I don't think anyone has ever loved me or will ever love me as unconditionally and absolutely as she did from the moment she knew I was happening.

I love that blanket because it reminds me of her!

RiftGibbon · 09/07/2020 21:51

A linen tea towel which has a picture of a teddy bear in bed - I used to have it in a hanging frame thing on my wall when I was about 5.
I also have a Wade china corgi dog from around the same time - I used to have a few different animals but over the (many) years I've lost them.

bettsbattenburg · 09/07/2020 21:52

My atlas from when I was a child

RiftGibbon · 09/07/2020 21:53

Correction - he's a husky not a corgi.

Kindlethefourth · 09/07/2020 21:53

Not the longest owned item but am remarkably proud of my boots advantage card. Still in my maiden name and been married for 20 years. How I have managed not to lose it I don't know!

wanderings · 09/07/2020 21:53

@Mawbags I too had that clockwork record player. Toys were made to last in those days. I didn't have the jack-in-the-box though; I think he appeared on a MN thread about "scary childhood toys". Wink

I have several teddies from babyhood, some of which appear in my baby photos. Perhaps I should do a "reproduced childhood photo" with them.