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

[ThatGreatNavyHedgehog]

My tv is 20 years old

Quite a lot now I think about it. A painted wicker chair from my old bedroom, a vintage painted mirror and some wall art. A small bookcase. Sewing box and old tin with buttons. Cake tins and icing nozzles, Christmas cake decorations ( very old and tatty!), various Christmas tree baubles and decs/tinsel. Some books (have got rid of a lot though). A ceramic cat.

My big yellow teapot. I was astounded that my parents kept it.

An aluminium custard jug that my mum swiped from the school kitchen when she was a dinner lady. It lives in my bathroom.

A Pyrex bowl with little orange flowers on it.

A very old blue and white china vase that an old lady gave to my mum in the 1960s. It was old then, so goodness knows how old it is now. It’s very pretty.

The Northern Dairies Book of Home Baking.

A 1930s oak dining table

Some little wade animals I kept when my mum died. And a small nativity decoration with a missing sheep. I also have a very ugly ornament that we pass around our family houses in secret. You never know where it will turn up.

1980s Heal’s dining table and chairs.

Loads of stuff.

I have a sofa which is from my childhood - must be at least 40 years old by now, although DPs had it recovered about 25 years ago.

All my childhood books like Sweet Valley and Famous Five
Recipe books
Childhood toys
Clothes I wore in the 90s and still wear now. Even one piece of clothing my Mum bought me in the 80s!
Jewellery
Various things belonging to my Dad who's now dead.
Bedding
Kitchen equipment

An old trunk of my grandfather's which I keep at the end of my bed. Had that from 11 yrs old. Maybe 100 yrs old now.
A pink candlewick bedspread from my childhood bed which I can't part with.
My victorian wardrobe and dresser from home. Still can't part with that.
I'm sure there's more.

Lots of my old fisherprice toys from the 70s and very old Enid Blyton books, Jackie Annuals etc.
But toys and books prob don't count

I'm weak
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I have got the full canteen of cutlery from 1953 my beloved MIL left me because she was the mother I didn't have in birth family but what do you do with that legacy?

West German “fat lava” table lamp that spent years on my grandparents’ staircase. It used to have an orange lampshade and was hideously ugly, where the rest of the family wanted to chuck it it brought back so many memories I had to hang onto it

It’s still ugly but now has a cream lampshade and it’s tolerable!

I’ve also got my great-great-grandma’s iron which I use as a doorstop

It may be worth money now if you don't want to keep it. Many of these items deemed "ugly" from Germany are. I would get proper advice from an expert before disposing of it

My bathroom bin is a porcelain nappy bucket with a woven wicker handle. My nanny used it when she had all her children. So that’s 1945 ish.

My bathroom countertops are marble from a washstand circa 1840. It used to stand in my other great-grandparents bedroom.

My kitchen table is a Saarinen one that my parents had when I was growing up. They bought it second hand in 1976. It was made in 1960. Still looks so relevant now.

My bedroom furniture is utility furniture that my grandparents got at the end of WW2. Got it from my parents in about 2000.

God I’ve loads of stuff.

Percy the penguin, an Avon bath toy I had when I was about 5 or 6 . Played with by my kids when they stayed with my parents, and by my grandchildren now. He must be approaching 60. Only squeaks now when he’s in the bath, I think he gets excited being played with again !

Oh goodness.
Cutlery.
A small chest.
A lamp.
Several chairs.
Beside cabinet.
Some china.
A mirror.
I could go on...

Thanks @GranPepper - I really couldn’t part with it though, no matter how much it’s worth monetarily!

A set of brass fire irons. I can see them from where I'm sitting now. The matching coal scuttle is in the loft.

Bone-handled knives. We use them as butter knives.

Late DM's Stork cookery book.

Her jewellery also.

Several books in a bookcase upstairs including 101 Dalmatians, the James Herriot vet series, Black Beauty and various others - mostly animal related.

My dictionary.

Some of my old toys including a teddy bear, some farm & zoo animals, my Sindy, and some Britains Floral Garden stuff.

Dad's stamp collection & his army-issue binoculars.

Fairy tales book and vintage barbies (which are unlikely to survive my girl). Some photos.

This made me wonder for a second why I only have one thing from my childhood and then my stupid brain remembered that it will all be with my stepfather who is no longer in my life and that makes me a little sad.

Anyway! I do still have Captain Rover my stuffed dog who is in need of a little repair because he's turning sixty next year and had a lot of handling and loving when I was a child and into my teens despite him being hard and not at all soft and cuddly apart from his sweet face.

I threw out a chopping board which was my grans this week, it must have been 60 years old. I still have her wooden spoon and a few other bits I use every week. The board would have survived longer but dh left it in a sink of water and all the melamine (?) coating came off 🤦‍♀️

Not much really from my childhood home (bar photos) as my dad is still there so I can't really plunder the place!

But I did have to sort out my maternal grandmother's home when she died as my mother predeceased her so I have some ornaments, a vintage dessert bowl set, a silver wedding anniversary bell and some of my great-grandmother's stitched quilts which I treasure. Also lots of photos and the passports of my grandad and his brother when they were fourteen or thereabouts, so cute.

So much!

Furniture.
Mirror
Pictures
Photos
Ornaments
Books
Kitchen utensils etc
Teddy bear
Board games

Neither would I. I just thought you might by your comments, possibly mis-interpreted by me and, if I did, sorry. There are many heirlooms which don't have huge financial value but are from my family and my husband's I will never let out of family while I am alive. Such as. A death plaque from WW1 for great Uncle (he died at 18, he has a Commonwealth war grave). War medals. ARP whistle. Navy books from someone who died after getting TB in the war. I keep telling my children how important these things are.

My mother...

A Kellogg’s cereal bowl I’ve had since I was a kid when you saved up tokens off the packets.