What have you got lying around your home that was in your childhood home?

leecall4a

My tv is 20 years old

Brie

I have my mom's spice cupboard.  Don't know what else to call it really.  She always thought it was something a tinker would carry from place to place to generate orders from farms.  It looks like a miniature version of a chest of drawers but has the names of different spices on the different drawers. 

It was always kept in the kitchen desk when I was a kid (1960s) and had the usual oddities that one needed to store - stamps, elastic bands, paper clips.  I currently use it for batteries as well as spare fairy lights that one discovers in February well after all the Christmas decorations have been packed away.  And that you never remember to use the next holiday season.

Floss

My parents' bedroom suite, my dad's Caithness glass paperweight and my mum's Thomas porcelain tea service.

Gem-gem

Two duvet sets (incl pillow cases) that were on my sister's and my beds. A blanket that was also on my bed. I still use them. 

Two bedside cabinets that were in my husband's and his brother's bedroom. A coffee table, blanket box and two wooden chairs that were made by a neighbour for my husband's family. 

A set of books that my aunt and Mum read as a child. 

My husband has a very large family bible that is passed down through the generations and has the family tree stuck inside. 

dekaspace1

Oldest is a school desk that my parents bought at a jumble sale at least 35 years ago, apart from needing the base hammered back in with nails which I keep wanting to do (just difficult as dog goes crazy with loud noises) and a tiny bit of corrosion on one leg it is in as good a condition as I first got it, did have to replace some nuts/bolt recently as they came apart when I moved it and lost them and that was a nightmare to find ones that matched

Though not sure if the teddy bear I have in a cabinet I got either a year or two before that or around same time,

Took loads of games and comics from my childhood but some fell apart when moving them.

thriftwizard

Quite a lot really! Including my great-grandmother's pink linen sheets. They don't fit any of our beds but the fabric is so beautifully soft... I will find a use for them one day! The things in everyday use are the breadknife, though I do have another of equal vintage that's just as good (both are a lot sharper & easier to use than anything we've ever bought new) and two fruit knives; again, better for the job than any of our more recent cutlery. Plus the rocking chair, which really belongs to my brother, but he doesn't have space for it in his elegant mid-century-modern-&-handcrafted home!

PollyWollyDoodle

My teddy!  My mum’s (formerly my grandmother’s) sewing machine. 

Lots of books - ‘Oxford Book of ‘ type of collections of poetry.  

And various bits of furniture, pretty much everything I have is second-hand 😄

Working_Mum

I have a sewing box that my Mum made at woodwork night-class in 1975 - I need to sort it out a  bit as it's a bit full of stuff right now (including material from the 70's & 80's). I love it!

I also have some 1950's cocktail picks from my Nana plus her Babycham  glasses. 

Nelliegrace

I have Granny’s butter knife and two Kings pattern teaspoons which get use most days, nothing special, but precious to me. 
I have Mum’s Utility wooden work box/stool she bought when they got engaged. 

DullGreyGuy

Very little to be honest, have a few pieces of vinyl that I "borrowed" given she doesn't have a turntable any more but most the discs were not of interest. Have my school scarf, mainly because I was too tight to ever give it to a girl (which was the tradition at the school).

My mother herself isn't very sentimental other than for jewellery (and that may not just be the sentiment) and so she herself has little from when I was a kid of "home" stuff. She even slung her cooking pans that were a wedding present when she downsized, had had them for 30 odd years. I suspect there are probably old school books etc up in the loft but only because she never goes up there.

MikeJXE

Absolutely nothing more than 12 years old when my wife passed away.

I’m now 83 and have everything I need and nothing I don’t