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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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MissyGirlie · 05/03/2025 18:30

Oh, loads...
Pictures, cutlery, linen, a sideboard, a few other random bits of furniture, candlesticks...

I use my pincushion quite a lot. I bought it for DM when I was in my teens, and it came to me when she died.

greenwoodpeckerwelcome · 05/03/2025 18:30

Furniture, china, crystal, linens. Some clothes, we wear the good coats and scarves that my parents left behind, we had them tailored for those that wanted them.

Tarkan · 05/03/2025 18:31

Not that much as most of it is still at my parents' house.

I do have a personalised egg cup from when I was a toddler and my plastic sippy cup in my cupboard though.

Both MIL and FIL have passed away so we have some of their old furniture and we also have their wedding cake topper in our (was their) display cabinet as well as crystal glasses of theirs, a couple of ornaments and a dinner set that I think was actually DH's granny's set.

CrushingOnRubies · 05/03/2025 18:34

Loads only moved out of my parents place in the last 2 years

Clothes
Toiletries and beauty stuff
Suitcases
Favourite soft toy
Favourite mugs and glasses
Stationery
Handbags
Shoes
Books

mathanxiety · 05/03/2025 18:52

Just books.

StMarie4me · 05/03/2025 20:15

When my mother died, I had no money whatsoever. Dirt poor. She had always said that she had a funeral policy. She did not. She had to have a "paupers" funeral, meaning they sold ALL her possessions towards the cost. But that included family photos, everything. I was allowed nothing. It was beyond cruel and damaged me to this day 27 years later.
So I have nothing.

CarpetKnees · 05/03/2025 20:43

Loads of stuff.

Furniture, kitchen stuff, a fireguard, photos, a few books, things like sewing kit, my clock radio alarm, records.

TheChosenTwo · 05/03/2025 20:46

Not anything I don’t think.
I’m not sentimental!
Dh has a couple of kitchen dishes that were cleared out of one of his granny’s houses.
I grew up in the 90’s, my mums furniture tastes changed like the wind, one minute everything was wicker and the next it was all black mdf from ikea - absolutely nothing about any of it made me think I’d like any of it.

70isaLimitNotaTarget · 05/03/2025 21:11

My Grandparents had a china drake ornament in their cabinet , then my Mum got it .
Poor drake was stuck in a cupboard ...so I liberated him (I did tell my Mum si not 'stolen' ) now lives in my windowsill

Roomgigi · 05/03/2025 21:17

I can't think of a single thing

ICouldHaveCheckedFirst · 05/03/2025 21:26

My pink, pig-shaped piggy bank.

LindorDoubleChoc · 05/03/2025 21:44

My Mum died last year and I have brought home hardly any of her possessions. I have some framed family photos, a few vases, some linen table cloths and tea towels ... but I do have her piano and piano stool (and some of her old yellowing music books) for which I'm grateful every day.

MiddlingMarch · 06/03/2025 07:55

A handful of my favourite books from childhood, my childhood cuddly toy and an extending dining table from 1990.

They don't know I have some of their vinyl records.

Titasaducksarse · 06/03/2025 07:58

Nothing

EBearhug · 06/03/2025 07:59

It probably depends partly on whether your parents are still alive or not.

LostMyLanyard · 06/03/2025 08:03

A fabulous 'turkey platter' dish that was my grandma's, then my mum's and now mine 💖 Brings back ALL the best memories from 'Christmas Past' when I use it, but also tinged with sadness as they've both gone 😢

Sunnyside4 · 06/03/2025 15:09

Our bedroom furniture. The dressing table and side cabinets are a little scratched but It's a little scratched now, but solid (guess we should sand down and re-varnish). However, the main thing which I love is an original Victorian ornate bed. Can't remember when my parents bought it for me to sleep on, but I guess about 45 years ago. Obviously changed the mattress a few times since and repainted.

TheDandyLion · 06/03/2025 16:57

Wind chimes. Don't worry its indoors not pissing off the neighbours.

MissMarplesGoddaughter · 20/04/2025 18:53

Lots of lovely things, photos of my GGPs taken in the 1890s.
My parents' honeymoon photo album, they honeymooned in Switzerland and the photo album cover is cloth embroidered with Swiss flowers and the Swiss flag.
Shot glasses which belonged to my GM.
My mother's favourite blue and white china jug, I always have her favourite flowers in it on the anniversary of her birthday.
Tablecloths with drawn thread work and hand embroidery made by my GA.
Christmas decorations dating back to before WWII
A needle case made by my GA

I love using / looking at all the above, it brings back lots of happy memories.

Dogpawsandcatwhiskers · 20/04/2025 19:02

So many things. Great aunts dinner service (married 1930s) - used it today, meat dish (older than that), yorkshire pud tins, grans mixing bowl, her big wooden spoon and old style weighing scales. 2 Lloyd loom chairs. Plus DMs soppy dog foot stool 🐾

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