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

[ThatGreatNavyHedgehog]

My tv is 20 years old

Annotation in my bedroom. Other than that nothing. Military child so kept nothing really and 2nd marriage. Oh, my teddy bear and a stamp no album. Goodness knows where they are though!

A couple of bog standard plain white IKEA serving dishes which were absolute staples on my mum's dining table, and which I now cherish as though they were meissen porcelain.

My Mum's sewing cabinet and sewing machine, an antique clock and a knitted Piglet I bought at a school Christmas Fair when I was 9.

Me!

An umbrella that my granny gave me for my 8th birthday. I’m 40 this year.

I have my childhood teddy, who is filled with straw. Like me, it's 60 years old.

A little brass tortoise, it was mine as a child and it came back to me in my mums belongings when she died - I'd forgotten about that for many years, it now sits on my desk and it reminds me of a more simple time

It would probably be easier to list what wasn’t in my childhood home, here’s a notable few though…
A side table that belonged to my great-great-grandmother.
My Dad’s Vintage scientific equipment in their wooden boxes piled up to act as a table, as well as his very first microscope he used in school.
A sterilising jug that my mother used when she gave birth to my sister 50 years ago.
My dad’s ornamental guns.
My granddad’s clock that he won pigeon racing.

A potted fig tree.

When I was a kid we'd put a Santa hot on it at Xmas. It must be over 30 years old and sits beside my front door.

An oak stool that belonged to my grandmother, so over a hundred years old. Not bought as an antique, just an ordinary piece of household furniture.

A stool, yellow plastic weave with wooden legs. I remember my dad coming home with the stool and a similar blue and brown chair for me and my younger sister when I was about 6.

From here I can see Felicity (original name Poppet, but gloriously rechristened by Great-Uncle George after Christmas lunch) who has been creepily standing on a chair in the lounge for over a year now. Really should find somewhere more Meant. Half a dozen other dolls and some soft toys tucked away in a cupboard and under the bed.

A gate-leg dining table, a small carved inlaid table and a wooden stool which weren't actually in our house until I was a teenager but were my granny's before that.

A few books. The Don Camillo omnibus, First Year of Piano Lessons. The Heyers and the Arthur Mee collections are my own copies bought much later.

Some silly little ornaments (H indulged me by mending and varnishing the gayboxes so my Whimsies and similar are on the wall in our bedroom), a small set of cardboard drawers, a hessian bag with a picture appliqued on that I made in third year Juniors. Some costume jewellery, including my scatterpins.

A few plates, pink and white picture of a coaching inn.

The black green and gold teapot on its stand, which I have held in my heart for as long as I can remember.

Some of my mums Readers Digest books.
I remember reading some of the stories when I was younger. They are beautiful looking books, almost Victorian looking.

A teapot that used to belong to my Nan.

Recipe book belonging to my nan, it was printed in 1911!

I have an old ladel that my grandmother bought over from Cyprus when she came over here just after i was born in the early 60s, i suspect it is a lot older than that though

I’ve inherited a lot of my parents things, the oldest is a wine decanter given as a wedding gift to grandparents grandparents etc on my mother’s side, the wedding was in 1762 ! Often wondered if I should get it valued but would be disappointed if not worth much but then it’s been in the family so long I couldn’t sell it, not the prettiest of things though 😂. But my favourite thing from my childhood home is my mums Kenwood mixer it’s 60 years old she used it all the time and now so do I

My teddy bear!
A couple pieces of sentimental jewellery from my sister.
Quite a lot of books.

A number of Christmas decorations, including three bells that were my maternal grandmother’s. I think two of them must be 100 years old, but will check with DM when they come out this year. The bells are kept in DM’s (child-size) gas mask box.

DP and I have a small Christmas tree for all our old family decorations, and it’s lovely that they’ve survived the years.

A manual pastry blender with a yellow wooden handle that was used by my grandmother.

Some Enid blyton books
my Snoopy dog
two other teddies

A Kenwood food mixer and attachments from the 1970s.

A table made by my Dad, an egg white separator, knitted toys made by Mum, tapestry chair seat cover, also made by Mum.

A few things of my mum's but the best one is a carved wooden elephant head that my parents bought when they lived in Cameroon in the 1970s (before I was born) that hung above our stairs in my childhood home. It now hangs above our stairs.

Nothing in my house but my mum still has a shake n vac in her cupboard from my childhood home from 30 years ago with 1mm left in it🤣 she’s a hoarder.

From my childhood home:

• the first piece of furniture that my parents bought, a rocking chair (c1968/9). I asked for it as a house-warming present when I bought my first house 21 years ago
• my Whimseys which survived The Great Whimsey Kidnapping (a friend took them home once and they stayed there for a few years) but more recently acquired a few chips (friends' children playing with them) (1970s).

Until recently I still had my Sindy vanity case, a Christmas present c1976. Perfect condition until a naughty pet ate it.

I do also have a 1970s Dairy Book of Home Cookery but it's a duplicate as my mum still has/uses hers. I look forward to the chestnut stuffing every Christmas 😋

A three legged hexagonal shaped side table my dad made when he was at school.
He's 85 now.
I treasure it.