Question of the Day

[ayoub]

Objects sometimes have a greater value to a person when they have memories attached. Considering this, what are some of the ordinarily worthless objects that are treasured by you?

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I have some cards, a few pens, an ancient mobile phone, and a one dollar bill :D

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[wildepixie.livejournal.com]

A red and black checked padded shirt that's falling to bits -

The weekend Dave and I met it was what he was using as his jacket. The final morning of the camp, I was sat next to the catering van while Dave was serving breakfast and I put his shirt on - partly because I was cold and partly because I wanted to be near him as in a few hours we'd be a few hundred miles away from each other. Course, Dave clocked this straight away and said nothing all morning, until we were saying goodbye and he said I could keep it.

I didn't actually take it off for the whole ten days that we were apart and then I went to Lockerbie for a visit...and never went home (well, except to pack my things into the car and move to Lockerbie for good).

I still have said shirt, much to Dave's occasional embarrassment and it sits permanently next to my side of the bed. On bad days, it's that shirt that can make me see and hear that weekend and calm down enough to get through because it reminds me that the good days are unlike anything I've felt with anyone else.

*passes you a bucket for too-soppy-vomit-reflex*

[mighty-rontor.livejournal.com]

My aunt Lux-Coeli (Tia Lulu) sent up on my mom's last to visit Brazil this little teddy bear that's made of plastic grocery bags. Her income is fixed and she can't really afford to do this, yet she did it anyway.

I'm actually having a hard time writing this because every time I even think about it, I start crying. Nan's seen this when I was driving once. I almost had to pull over.

I submit to you that when the poor loves you enough to give you ANYTHING, it should be treasured.

[donnickcottage.livejournal.com]

I'd cry too.

[pyxiwulf.livejournal.com]

we have a WWII army footlocker that was his grandfather's & a stone from the ground @ my FIL's marker in the cemetary. I tried to come up with one from my side, but it seems that super sentimental me only keeps obviously sentimental items.

[chiropteraclan.livejournal.com]

A mirror, a quilt, a sewing machine, and a couple rings.

Just to name a few

[cmerun12.livejournal.com]

a hat, some photos, some gumball machine jewelry, an old coffee can with bits and pieces of old crayons in it, some coins, small rocks, tin of old buttons, a pencil topper, a couple of wax figurines, a ball of wool with beads sewn on, decks of cards...

and the list goes on.

They don't seem like much to anyone else, but to me - they're priceless.

[shamrocks-13.livejournal.com]

A Megadeth concert ticket, a Slayer T-shirt, some Indian Tear Drops, a wastebasket, a bat pendant, and a tin can of seeds.

[donnickcottage.livejournal.com]

I have a lot of worthless junk actually. A pinky ring given my grandmother by her sister for confirmation and her first bible circa 1918, postcards sent to my other grandmother by my grandfather from France during WW1, a little wall hung bell that was my mothers and so on.

[hippie-geisha.livejournal.com]

I have a postcard (in a box of pictures at my mom's house) that was sent from my great-grandfather to my great-grandmother....across town. Postage was a penny. I think it was sent around 1905.

[allyra.livejournal.com]

Does an empty bottle of Stoli that says "Made in the USSR" count?

*Swoons*

[shamrocks-13.livejournal.com]

Ah, Stoli. I miss her. What a loving woman she was...

[xsongbirdx.livejournal.com]

Other than little things made by my kids...the only thing I can think of is a TV. It's 20 years old, was cheap and ugly, but I'm having a hard time letting go of it. I got it after I left a boyfriend that I lived with for 5 years. I think it represents a time when I was not dependant upon any man in my life. I was living alone and taking care of myself.

Sadly, it is getting replaced with a digital TV this week and will be going to the recycle center. It actually makes me sad. Dumb.

[beatzz.livejournal.com]

Ticket stubs? Lol. It's lame but I keep them in my memory box. Also ribbons off of gifts and notes passed in class.

[ktsies2.livejournal.com]

Pretty much so anything I have that was either of my grandmothers' things, and I actually picked out my wedding band, but it looks so much prettier to me now that it's official.

[kathyrene.livejournal.com]

I cannot think of a single one. I suppose if they're treasured hard to think of them as ordinary and/or worthless.

[o-annie-o.livejournal.com]

Stuffed animals from my childhood, sweaters from my Dad which he wore in times when I was a kid, old brooches and rings from my Grandma, my old chocolate milk-mug from my childhood, some of the letters I have have quite a value to me, and so on and so on...

[hippie-geisha.livejournal.com]

I have a scrap of paper that my grandpa drew out dimensions of something on. The piece of paper is from a notepad that had his name printed on it, and I have it folded up in my wallet. How I found it is pretty interesting too. My mom gave me some books of my grandma's to read, and that slip of paper was in one of them being used as a bookmark.

[spacedlaw.livejournal.com]

Potato peeler.
It belonged to a long disappeared friend.

[bronxelf-ag001.livejournal.com]

A NYC Y cutout subway token.

It lives in the UK now.

[fox-bard.livejournal.com]

All of my Faire garb, even the pieces I don't wear any more.

[heardthatnoise.livejournal.com]

Mostly rocks. :)

[empatia.livejournal.com]

A red t-shirt...I wore for my first dance when I was 8 or so and to my first day of highschool, when I had my first kiss...it's a shirt of firsts.

Letters, I have a million old letters. Two that are very special.

A 8dollar ring I have had since I was a little girl and never take off.

And a coin, Chris got for me when we were kids...it was special because he bought it for my coin collection.

lol yup.

[soothethemuse.livejournal.com]

The strangest one I can think of is a spork. I've had it for 16 years.

[mysticpickle.livejournal.com]

I have so many things I couldn't list them all in a week! Even trying to think of which ones hold the most meaning is impossible. They are all special to me. Here's a few in no particular order...
My first teddy bear. Had it since the day I was born.
A coffee cup my grandfather used to make coffee for me in. Its super small (like an espresso cup) but it was mine for coffee with grandpa when I was little.
A bar of Darth Vader soap I bought for my pops when I was little. Kate bought him Yoda.
My first blankey. When I was little my grandpa would say "Your gonna be able to use that as a veil at your wedding." cause it was so worn you could almost see through it. For my wedding I took a tiny piece of it... I carried it until it was in pieces... and pined it in my hair for him. I still have the pieces, that piece too, in little jewelry boxes.
Each and every one of my frogs. Most of them have stories.
Every item in each baby book from my kids. More than anything I have their first "drawings" of our "family" in them.
I could go on and on but I won't... Much love!

[patchworld.livejournal.com]

some cards and Mother of God painted on a large dried leaf, presented to me by my dearest friend from India.

[castlelady.livejournal.com]

I have a few of my childhood toys (which my own son played with when he was younger), my mother's jewelry, as well as her photo album and a few other things that belonged to her.