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What items that were in your childhood home are now in your current home?

45 replies

ThisPlumShark · 05/03/2025 16:47

A tea towel I made in primary school.

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Goinggold · 05/03/2025 16:51

Microwave!

ArghhWhatNext · 05/03/2025 16:57

Dining table and chairs, spare bed and chest of drawers, quite a lot of pictures, quite a lot of books, a coffee table, a necklace belonging to my grandmother, two compasses, one from WW1 and one from WW2… quite a lot really

MaisyMary77 · 05/03/2025 17:05

Loads!
Dining table
Table linen
Parents wedding china
Piano stool
Bureau
Books
Dressing table and chair
Jewellery

HellsBalls · 05/03/2025 17:06

I have a colander that must be 50 years old.

RabbitsRock · 05/03/2025 17:21

Mugs
Vases
Odd plates
I think I’ve got an old fashioned lemon squeezer of DM’s somewhere
My teddy bear from when I was a baby
DF’s piano music

minnienono · 05/03/2025 17:26

Got a few pieces of China and table linens that were my grandmothers

Abra1t · 05/03/2025 17:30

1970s Tupperware.
Breadboard from at least the 1980s
My grandmother's wine glasses from the 1960s or earlier
I had to make myself give the 1970s Denby casseroles and mugs to a charity shop because they reminded me of childhood suppers, but we didn't really need them.

I really like having practical things that you use day to day. It makes me think of them when I'm preparing a meal.

fromthevault · 05/03/2025 17:34

Absolutely loads, plus stuff from my grandparents' house too. I love being surrounded by their things, and it feels good not to chuck good quality, vintage items away just to end up replacing them with modern tat!

Curtains
Kitchen table and chairs
Sideboard
Small sofa
Dressing table
Chest of drawers
Record player and speakers
Paintings
Lloyd Loom chairs
Handmade deckchairs
Table linen
Crockery, serving bowls, glasses etc
Towels and blankets
Binoculars
Books
Paintings
Mirrors
Piano

WhatMe123 · 05/03/2025 17:34

Some of my books, my dd1 now has them

JoggingOnBy · 05/03/2025 17:36

A big set of Le Creuset casserole dishes of various sizes and an old Kenwood Chef mixer, both at least 50 years old.

imnotwhoyouthinkiam · 05/03/2025 17:38

Some mugs
Books
Childhood teddies
Some ornaments
Oven gloves I made at school

I've also got my Grandads quiche dish as he doesn't make quiche anymore and some of my late Grandma's books.

MistyMountainTop · 05/03/2025 17:40

Toasting fork

MrsTwinklywoo · 05/03/2025 17:47

A bread knife
Various Christmas decorations/ baubles
Babycham glasses
A Table cloth my older sister embroidered
Shelley tea set
A carver chair
A beautiful carved sideboard
Welsh Dresser
Rocking chair

I love them all

JBJ · 05/03/2025 17:50

I have a wooden cabinet that was made by my grandad and in my mum's childhood home. I haven't really got a space for it, but can't bring myself to get rid of it! Also a casserole dish and mixing bowl that were my grandma's.

A bar mirror that was a wedding present to my mum and dad. It's pride of place in my kitchen. Then several bits of cutlery/crockery that I adopted after my parents died.

Recycledblonde · 05/03/2025 17:50

Several pieces of furniture and a saucepan which was a wedding present to my parents who married in 1951. It’s the best pan I’ve ever had, nothing sticks to it.

LlynTegid · 05/03/2025 17:51

Several photo albums.

honeyfox · 05/03/2025 17:53

Not many items as one parent is still alive and well still in the family home, but I do have some things from my grandparents' house.

Christwosheds · 05/03/2025 17:57

A few pieces of furniture, family photo albums from my parents’ childhoods, lots of china, some linens including towels my Mum had as a wedding present (only now getting threadbare 65 years later). My Mum’s Kenwood chef from the 60s, same as a pp.

AuntieMarys · 05/03/2025 17:58

Just photo albums

Kilroywashere · 05/03/2025 17:59

Lots and lots - but even further back too. I have a family bible going back to the early 1700s. DH has a grandfather clock that was a wedding present from his great-great grandfather to his great grandfather. I have a sampler that my grandmother sewed at school - she was born in 1860. There's loads more 😁
Goodness knows if our kids will want all this stuff!

LadyCrumb · 05/03/2025 18:00

God, I'm so sentimental about my things, I was married twenty years ago, but still think of the person who bought be whichever wedding present I'm using at the time.

I have the carver dining chair that was my granddad's in our bedroom, and the oval mirror that was my grandmother's in the dining room. I also have my Grandma's serving spoons, pyrex dishes and cutlery canteen, and use them all the time. I don't know if it's healthy though, but I love being surrounded by family items, it keeps them alive in my mind.

ViciousCurrentBun · 05/03/2025 18:01

My Grandmothers Edwardian carver chairs.
DH has the Danish dining table his Mother gave it to us plus his Grandmothers coffee table and family bible.
We both have our childhood Teddy bears.
My Dolls house and some really old parasols.

EBearhug · 05/03/2025 18:03

I have a bookcase that was in my great-great-grandfather's home (it would have been new then,) and I have photos of it in my grandparents' and parents' homes.

Also books, pictures, crockery, linens, a couple of other bits of furniture... Mum's 1970 Kenwood (older than I am.)

madaffodil · 05/03/2025 18:08

Both parents long gone and I'm an only, so DM's jewellery, all the bric-a-brac, cutlery, kitchen utensils and all that sort of stuff came to me, plus some of my childhood toys, and quite a few books. There's my dad's cine camera and film projector in the loft somewhere. I also have some of dad's gardening tools and bits from his tool kit.

Echobelly · 05/03/2025 18:16

From my side, paintings mostly. One big picture where my mum was the artist's model that has travelled from house to house with me. A few years ago a slightly risque painting that used to hang in my parents house, known as 'the rude lady' 😆

DH has quite a few as his mum hoards everthing - a glass paperweight, a pyramid magnet with metal stars (now mostly lost) that his grandparents got him, a wooden letter opener shaped like a crocodile, various children's books.