Which items from the past do you still use?

[Rabbit B]

Can I just move round your house Rabbit? you don't live very far away 

Jenny

Hi Jenny,

Not much room to stay over the holiday, because the spare room is full of all the things that I have removed from elsewhere to make it look nice!   Our house is very lived in!!

However by all means nip over after Christmas! 

Rabbit B 

[chinakay]

Talking of things lasting ,my husband and I started going out together on 5 .12 .1956 
 it was near xmas so he bought me a card and present

Elizabeth I have this same card, somewhere, my mother kept it for years and years...I think it used to be in a little cedar box she kept hankies and mementoes in...

I have just turned the house upside down looking for it, but no joy. It may have gotten pitched

But looking at the card that shows in your post (but when you quote a post, no pictures are included in the quote ) it was like looking at the face of an old friend...SO familiar, the carolers and the steeple and the lamp post and the outline of the trees! I couldn't believe it when I saw it!

If I ever come across it I'll scan it, and then we'll have a matching pair

Cheers,
China

[vic1]

my mum and dad live in the same house her great grandparents did - with some of their furniture -  side tables g/father clock chests of drawers,pewterware- which is probably the oldest thing she's got in fact  my mum motto is if you got one that does the job don't buy a new one - explains the 1950 twin tub she had up intill recently  oh and a christening gown which is 120 years old and been worn by at least 18 babies. wonder what the next generation  will hoard nothing probably or may be lots and lots of CD and DVD that will need  specialist equipment to play- otherwise if my two are anything to go by nothing- that many change now the first grandchild has arrrived may be they'll start getting slightly sentimental and keeping thing  Even if they don't look good. i love old things  had a lovely time this summer in place called bygones in torquay and I'm only 44. but things ain't wot they used to be is they

[cheshiremog]

No they ain't what they used to be
I can't get a DVD player to work longer than a year
Absolute rubbish! 

 

[Ninatoo]

I have embroidered bits and pieces from my grandmother, g-grandmother and x's grandmother.  I have x's grandmother's sewing box, too, which she gave me because I was interested in handcrafts.  She was a great one for tapestry.

I have my grandmother's jewellery, all of which, as her only grand-daughter, she left to me.  I am sure some of it belonged to her mother, but can't prove it.  I wear some of it, particularly some earrings, a diamond ring, and a faux silver bracelet with pale blue stones.  I love looking through it.  Most of it is costume jewellery, but there are three sets of pearls in there.  I don't wear them as I am afraid they might need restrung.

Nina

[Lydart]

I've got some pretty but very fragile glass Christmas baubles that we had when I was a child ... they may have been grandmothers.  I don't use them for fear of the cats breaking them ! 

[aghadowey]

I've got some of the glass Christmas ornaments my grandmother's father bought her from FAO Schwartz in New York City in 1901 for her first Christmas.