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

[ThatGreatNavyHedgehog]

My tv is 20 years old

My childhood teddy bear. He's been in my bed for 39 years now!

And the teddy I had since I was 4, and a Paddington bear also that my mum bought me. I can remember it and now my DD has it.

My gran’s soup pot. Must be 60+ years old. Couldn’t buy anything like it now for love or money. Still can’t make soup anything as good as hers. I cherish it and reminds me of my grandparents.

My sewing kit was my nan’s and there’s some packs of buttons in there that look like they’re 1950s or 60s

Or there’s my nan’s electric whisk that I only use at Christmas for whipping cream. It still works brilliantly. It looks just like this but beige.

Some photos. My flute and recorder and sheet music. (I haven't played for years. Decades.) my plastic NI card.

Love this!

My father 😂

Sorry. Off-colour humour. I love the old bugger to little mintballs, but caring for Alzheimer's is hard.

You can't be very old then.

I have a tablecloth that belonged to my grandmother. It is at least 65 years old.

My favourite cuddly toy who was given to me 36 years ago.

Plus, an old thin raggedy towel that's falling apart. My mum used to use it for her hair but I've had it for mine for about 20 years now. It's about 40 years old but is the perfect size to wrap my hair up in and dries it brilliantly. My husband bought me a lovely white company hair wrap towel but it's not my old blue rag!

And these. Given to me by my cousin for Christmas 1976. When we were very young disintegrated some years back.

An ornament that was my grandmothers.

My childhood fisher price pull along doggy - 35+ years old. They haven't changed much.

My childhood toy doll highchair, was my cousins before mine, and toy doll cot. Both 45 years old.

My 18m and 4yo love them!

My grandmother's breadboard, my other grandmother's locket, my teddy bear (who is in his mid 50s now but looks better on it than I do), my Dad's copies of several Enid Blyton's from the early 1950s, the Christmas wreath my Mum made over 40 years ago, two bookcases.

Oh, and a wooden coal store filled with embroidery silks, which is wear my gram put them after she got a gas fire and didn't need to store coal anymore.

Several serving dishes and cooking utensils. I’m especially happy to have the zig zag potato masher that works so well. Family photos, very precious.

When my parents passed away they were in their 90s. The shed padlock was rusted shut. There wasn’t much in there but when I cleared it out I discovered a little box of fossils that my late brother - a geologist - had given to me. Value completely sentimental.

DH has his dad's miner's lamp. It's actually quite lovely.

Oh we had that mixer 😀

Not just me then...Scratchy Bear has taken residence on top of the piano for his retirement years.

Our bedside tables from the 60s ,my Mum loved them so now in our room,my Dads steak knife that I use for chopping up veg ,a beanie frog that my lovely Mum used as a spy ,to watch us !! It still watches me every day 😂

I have my Teddy who sits on an armchair in our room.

Brown Bero recipe book.
Fish knives and forks, were Grandmothers.
2 dolls from 1950s.
Merrythought Teddy I had when I was 21.
Recently got rid of my 1950s wardrobe, needed a larger one.
Dad's war medals and Mother'a Land Army badges and certificate.
Lots of photos many black and white.
Lots of LP's and 45rpm records, and old coins.

I took this photo from eBay because mine is currently in my sleeping toddlers bedroom -
but this fisher price piggy bank. My first ever, I got it as an toddler and I kept it forever. The cap has a money slot and it also comes off.
for some reason I just never parted with it. It has things my siblings and I wrote on it that I never rubbed off, and these messages are so sweet.
its so big it was just handy for any loose change lol. Now I have finally passed it on but it holds so many happy memories 🥰

I can’t addd the photo!!!

A mahogany hall chair - parents gave it to me when we emigrated and I shipped it.

A tantalus

My grandmother's china tea set

My mothers eternity ring (on my finger)

A crucifix

Some letters between my parents when they were dating/engaged.

So jealous I wish I still had mine

A set of pastel coloured glazed dessert dishes which my parents got as a wedding present. My parents got married in the late 50s.
My mum's wedding veil.
My dad's harmonica
My mum's 21st birthday cardboard "key to the door"

My Dad. Well, his ashes. I need to sort that out really.

My parents' beautility cocktail cabinet.