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Your 'treasured memory items''?

sarahpanda — Sat, 24 Feb 2024 13:10:08 GMT

A friend of mine has a necklace with a pendant that shows her deceased father's thumbprint on it. It is beautiful and a treasured item to her. Do you have any thing such as this? TIA

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CalminHeart — Sat, 24 Feb 2024 13:35:41 GMT

My house is full of memories from family who have passed. I lost 4 family members in the last 7 months of 2023 so they all mean a lot.

One is my 60 yr old brother. I have his fingerprints and want to get a tattoo of one of them. I also have his last text to me where he said he loved me.

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Mombo1 — Sat, 24 Feb 2024 14:06:53 GMT

My dad always carried a little green plastic squeeze wallet for coins. He passed away in 2000. His coins are still in it...all dated prior to that year.
I also have some jewelry that my mom had... given to her by my dad. One bracelet is covered with rose shaped ivory stones. Very pretty. True keepsakes for me.

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Travone — Sat, 24 Feb 2024 14:20:56 GMT

I wear my mom's wedding ring on my right hand.

But what I love best is the picture of the last supper we had in our kitchen when I was growing up.

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candys mine — Sat, 24 Feb 2024 15:13:11 GMT

I have a palm sized piece of granite my Dad etched "my portrait" in. It's rough carved But he made it for me and nobody else.

My Mothers pearls and an opal pin I remember her wearing .

A pair of smokey glass shell shaped ashtrays put out when company came for dinner.

A few very old cookbooks with margin notes from Mom, Grandma and Great Grandma.

But the One object I Wish I still had Is an old AM radio we kept on the kitchen table.

I grew up with that radio. Music, Ball Games, The Gus Saunders Yankee Kitchen call in show, The News of the day.

That radio was one of the things Dad Remembered and used in his fading years.

After he passed on the house was cleared out and that went away before I could collect it. That radio would have been the reminder I would have had of my whole family growing up.

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wagirl — Sat, 24 Feb 2024 15:28:29 GMT

Not very many from my dad --I have a watch my dad wore. I wasn't offered much to take to remember my dad as my mom was not a fan of his and was starting to get a little nasty--so she got rid of most things after he died. My youngest brother might have more. I have a few items from my mom--she had pearls that I really wanted, but think she might have sold them, as well as her wedding set. I have a lovely hand made bedspread--some kind of handiwork--not knitting or crochet but tatting maybe--the thng weighs a ton. I have a piece of fostoria and then her jewelry boix with a few things in it---and a crystal vase---the same brother does have family photos tho----and some of my dads war memorbilia---he was an avid military airplane guy--would put plastic model kits together that were the exactly like the the real planes were painted--amazing!!

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ECBG — Sat, 24 Feb 2024 15:42:13 GMT

Mine are a little different. I have our bronzed baby shoes on the mantle; mine are Mary Janes.

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judy0330 — Sat, 24 Feb 2024 15:52:31 GMT

My sister passed away from Leukemia in 1993. She was 47. I have worn her Movato watch every time I leave the house since then.

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Tori3569 — Sat, 24 Feb 2024 17:01:09 GMT

@Mombo1 wrote:
My dad always carried a little green plastic squeeze wallet for coins. He passed away in 2000. His coins are still in it...all dated prior to that year.
I also have some jewelry that my mom had... given to her by my dad. One bracelet is covered with rose shaped ivory stones. Very pretty. True keepsakes for me.

Oh my goodness @Mombo1 ! My Dad had the same green squeeze coin holder. I have it too with all the coins in it. I always have it in my bag. ❤️

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mrshckynut — Sat, 24 Feb 2024 18:22:41 GMT

US Army service medal that my dad received serving in world war 2

mrshckynut

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LindaSal — Sat, 24 Feb 2024 19:12:40 GMT

I have a few things that I treasure but the first thing that came to mind is a little cutting board with a painted picture of a pug on it with my name engraved and my date of birth made by hand by my grandpa. He made one for all of his granddaughters when we were born and they were all different pictures of dogs, cats, birds.........it means the world to me as I got the pug one and my grandparents always had pugs when we were young and one inparticular was my very favorite dog, ever! Mugsey

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PA Mom-mom — Sat, 24 Feb 2024 20:00:37 GMT

@sarahpanda Good topic. Our house is full of furniture and other items from our families. But, one of my favorites is my Mom's Bible. For my whole life growing up, I remember it on the stand beside her bed. She read it every night before going to bed. It now has a place of honor on a tea table in our living room. We open it to chapters pertinent to the holiday, season or family occasion. It's been there for 16 years - since she passed away. I love to stop by the table and just page through it and remember Mom and her steadfast faith.

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RedTop — Sun, 25 Feb 2024 18:30:46 GMT

I too have a home filled with treasures of my loved ones that I will hold onto for my lifetime.

I have Mom's wedding rings, Dad's Army bible and his dog tag, along with his harmonica.

I have the wall fruit that hung in my farm grandparents kitchen, along with their crystal candy dish and several other cut glass dishes.

I have my maternal grandparents Bibles, my first Easter pocketbook from Mamaw, the pocketbook she carried when she married Papaw in the early 1920's, along with all of her jewelry, the contents of her china cabinet, her rolling pin, and the little plate I always ate off of at their house. A gold bangle bracelet from Papaw, his special ceramic ashtray, his desk along with a special glass piece that sat on the desk, and his family Bible. I have my maternal aunts jewelry box, her engraved cigarette case and several pieces of Fire King bakeware I use often. I have my maternal uncles ring that was his high school graduation gift from my grandparents. I have 4 railroad watches from this side of my family. I have my maternal great grandmother's pocketbook, a button from her winter coat prior to 1925, and her rolling pin.

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Mombo1 — Sat, 24 Feb 2024 21:04:43 GMT

@Tori3569 wrote:
@Mombo1 wrote:
My dad always carried a little green plastic squeeze wallet for coins. He passed away in 2000. His coins are still in it...all dated prior to that year.
I also have some jewelry that my mom had... given to her by my dad. One bracelet is covered with rose shaped ivory stones. Very pretty. True keepsakes for me.

Oh my goodness @Mombo1 ! My Dad had the same green squeeze coin holder. I have it too with all the coins in it. I always have it in my bag. ❤️

@Tori3569 Wow...we don't see many of those coin holders anymore. I think it was a common thing from that generation. I just checked some of the coins in my dad's...and I found 2 old nickels. One from 1969 and one from 1972. My little 6 year old granddaughter was with me today and saw the wallet. She said..."That is so cool"....😄

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seehorse — Sat, 24 Feb 2024 22:00:34 GMT

You all have some very wonderful things that remind you of loved ones.

Some bring back our memories and some maybe just a smile. But they are all in some way a part of what makes us who we are. (Sorry for all the pix - got carried away)

Here's some of mine:

Dad's WWII Uniform. He was in the Army Air Corp - no Air Force at that time.

Mom's wedding dress

A moth-eaten yellow wool sweater that my great-grandmother knit. It was made for my Mom but she said it was too itchy to wear.

Conch shell and t-shirt my Grandmother brought me from Miami (in mid 50s)

Dancing School T-Shirt (also mid 50s)

And this cake. It's from my baby shower and my daughter is now 41. A close family friend made it. It's in a box in the freezer and everyone in our family knows not to ever throw it out. LOL

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Enufstuff — Sun, 25 Feb 2024 01:15:55 GMT

@ECBG I have my bronzed baby shoes, too. They are at the base of a frame with my baby picture.

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Enufstuff — Sun, 25 Feb 2024 02:18:42 GMT

Years ago, my mother gave me all the photos of me, going back to baby pictures. Some have my parents, siblings, cousins, aunts,

uncles and grandmothers.

I also have many of my mother's dolls and I have her engagement diamond, which I had made into a pendant that I wear often.

In the 70s my grandmother gave me all her Fiesta dishes and some lovely glasses and framed pictures.

We have furniture from parents and grandparents.

From my mother in law, I have a little Roseville Blackberry

pattern jardineire that was given to her by her mother in law in 1934.

I also have my Ginny dolls, furniture and clothes and my Toni dolls from the 1950s.

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SaveTheTurtles — Sun, 25 Feb 2024 02:30:10 GMT

I have jewelry, pictures, clocks, china, and furniture. I love it all!

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Flatbush — Sun, 25 Feb 2024 03:23:00 GMT

I have my Grandmother's gold bangle bracelet embossed with her birth name initials, her tiny gold earrings that she wore when a baby, and her gold locket.

I never met her since she was murdered when she was only 24 years old.

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Sooner — Sun, 25 Feb 2024 03:27:10 GMT

No I really don't. Stuff doesn't do much for me after the people are gone. I've learned that the hard way. I have a few things but it's all stuff.