What is lying around your house which was in your childhood home?

[ThatGreatNavyHedgehog]

My tv is 20 years old

I have some pieces of furniture ( mid century stuff) which were my parents thing and I liked,. But the oldest thing is my panda-bear. Must be in his 60s now 😍

Dining table (minimum 35 years old)
Good Housekeeping Recipe Book (probably 40+ years old)

Delia Smith basic cookery course book

My potato peeler is from the 1950s

The family heirloom old washing up bowl/sick bucket. It’s at least 50 years old!

A few Polly Pockets. They were my favourite toy as a kid. I’ve passed them on to dd.

Me! Also our dining table, a beautiful chest of drawers in our bedroom, some cutlery, two barometers, my dad's piano, and a massive armchair that was my great-uncle's retirement present, which my mum gave to my nan because she hated it and then my nan left it to me

Me, lazing on the sofa!

A canteen of cutlery, minus the canteen, fish slice, bread knife, serving spoon. All my parents wedding presents and lasted much longer than their marriage, around 60 years and still going strong.

The dairy boom of home cookery, free from the milkman in the late 70's I think and from which my mum, then myself, and now dd learned to cook.

Egg storage in the shape of a chicken and measuring tape

The folder of recipes my mum typed up when I was very small. After she died, I took it and I’m copying all the recipes to share with my sister and the rest of the family. Then I’ll keep the originals really carefully.

The 'naice' cutlery.

Loads of stuff.

I bought my childhood home from my mother, so still have lots of stuff lying around, including two Silver Cross prams from the 80s!

Both parents are no longer with us so I inherited quite a bit. Looking around now I can see a bureau, clock and several photos. My kitchen cupboards and drawers are full of my parents’ cutlery and utensils from my childhood - ddad was a sales rep for a kitchenware firm!

My old bedroom curtains are here somewhere - they're 47 years old. Horrible but I love them...

An enormous ceramic pheasant, it's about 60cm long.

My Harry Potter books and the teddy from when I was born.

My bedside table from when I moved into my "grown up bedroom" aged four (my brother was about to be born, so i was moved out of the nursery). It now sits in my daughter's bedroom as her bedside table.

I've got one of these! There's quite a bit of 'things in geletin' recipes and offal based dinners. Wouldn't part with it though.

A book about gnomes.

I also have my grandmothers cutlery and my dad’s old fishing lamp.

A little Quality Street tin full of buttons. It was my Grandmas. Then my mum added to it and now I add to it.

I don't know how old it is but it feels really old. My grandma was born in 1892 and QS was launched in the1930s.

I have a rug from China. I think it was a present from a friend of my grandmothers. My daughter has it in her room.

My mums frying pan that has a full arch handle over it.I think it’s called a skillet. It’s cast iron and love it and use nearly very day.

So much stuff from my parents' house that I couldn't bear to throw out. Including: the hobby horses DM made for me & DS in 1978, a clock, the mahogany writing box that all important documents were kept in, a plastic nail brush that predates me, an indestructible nylon bedspread that the dogs now sleep with when it's properly cold.