What Item(s) Do You Still Have From Childhood?

[luvgirlsfeet]

I still have my little league baseball game jersey I was #6

 

[_virginie_]

My entire childhood is up in my parents' attic, all my siblings' too. Whenever we're all together - like at Christmas or birthdays back home - we go up and have a bit of a nostalgia trip.

The item I have that sees the most use is an old rugby shirt I bought to go and watch a match with papa - it was huge on me then but now fits well, if a bit *ahem* fitted.

 

[teamtickleguy]

The earliest item I have kept is 'Occy' a small fluffy (much less fluffy these days...) octopus who was my favourite soft toy (any toy really) and slept in a shoebox in the gap between my bed and the bedroom wall.

Once I lost him in town, having dropped him from my pushchair - miraculously someone who had noticed me in the pushchair with it earlier that day actually found it and then by pure chance saw me again and handed it back.

I have some other soft toys and some model cars. I really wish I'd kept the racetrack I drew myself on a large piece of card. And also the door-length 3D poster of Jet from the UK version of Gladiators.. !

My advice to everyone is keep your old toys, not necessarily just for posterity, but also you never know how much monetary value they will hold in the future for yourself and those close to you.

 

[chicago]

My Irish dancing shoes

 

[4Pawz]

I have the stuffed dog I got when my brother was born, missing eye and all! I have a teddy bear my friend gave me in 1st grade. I have my badges from girl scouts. And the t-shirt my Navy SEAL penpal gave me when he returned from deployment <3

 

[Mitchell]

Three things come to mind.

A metal standing box that is like an old lawyer's deed box. I have that since about early teenage years.

A large chest where I keep various items, clothes, and other things.

Literally probably thousands of baseball cards from the 1970s and early 1980s. I've inquired about selling those. I belong to several baseball card and baseball discussion groups, and I've been told it is very difficult to sell them unless they are in absolute mint condition, so I just keep them.

Those are the items I can think of off the top of my head.

 

[alwayslaughing]

I have the first suit I ever wore, at aged 3 I think. It's quite small. I have a few stuffed animals in a bag somewhere. A few baseball cards, but not thousands. A bunch of marbles that I started acquiring in grade one. A small box with a few other odds and ends from my childhood.

 

[Yote]

A few stuffed animals, letters and birthday cards from friends, and a junk drawer with all sorts of things.

That's my room only, but there's probably more things since my parents kept some of my childhood belongings.

 

[cloudgazer2k]

Most of my toys, an antique harmonica from my great-grandfather, my first pocketknife (lockblade tanto), and some old PlayStation games I won't get rid of.

 

[isabeau]

Ok imagine this...in the early or mid 1960's I was given a baby patty burp doll...I still have her, and guess what...she still burps when you press her back...

O and in highschool I bought an electric razor...it also still works...

Yes I'm old, deal with it lol...

 

[Libertine]

My Mother Goose Book. I don't recall a time when I didn't have it. It was printed in 1915, and its frontspiece quotes the introduction from another volume printed in 1833:

HEAR WHAT MA'AM GOOSE SAYS!

My dear little Blossoms, there are now in this world, and always will be, a great many grannies besides myself, both in petticoats
and pantaloons, some a deal younger to be sure; but all monstrous wise, and of my own family name. These old women, who never had
chick nor child of their own, but who always know how to bring up other people's children, will tell you with very long faces, that
my enchanting, quieting, soothing volume, my all-sufficient anodyne for cross, peevish, won't-be-comforted little bairns, ought to be
laid aside for more learned books, such as THEY could select and publish. Fudge! I tell you that all their batterings can't deface
my beauties, nor their wise pratings equal my wiser prattlings; and all imitators of my refreshing songs might as well write a new
Billy Shakespeare as another Mother Goose--we two great poets were born together, and we shall go out of the world together.

No, no, my Melodies will never die,
While nurses sing, or babies cry.
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But it had another effect on me, which I still don't understand, considering I was more or less a post-baby of only three or four.

I always used to look at these two pictures.

And no, I was neither looking at the old goat, nor the odd fellow in the tights.

 

[milagros317]

Aha, your interests go back a long way. As do mine. 😀

 

[Ovda]

I have the red apple. Plus, I still have a vintage kids rocking chair that has been passing around to other cousins through out the years. When I die, the chair is going with me.

 

[tickle gamer]

I know this will sound weird, but I still have ( and use) my first pillow.

It now has sentimental value. My grandmother made it for me, when I was a baby.

 

[Sunriseticklee]

Journals, novels, stories I have written, a scarf I stole from my mother (I still wear it)....
Strangely, my alarm clock.