I guess I`m a sentimental old thing!

[ScotiaLass]

How lovely!
I have a couple of things from my parents house which I treasure.
A small alabaster marble owl, which I brought my mum back from Italy when I went skiing. It has a chunk out the bottom where I tried to use it as a hammer. I remember my mum telling me to hit the nail in the wall with it. We both laughed so much. You can't see the damage until you turn it over.
And to remind me of my dad, a small earthenware pot which I chose and he bought, for Mothers Day when I was 8.
They are worthless to anyone else but to me, they are priceless.
Treasure those things

 

[speccy1]

How lovely!
I have a couple of things from my parents house which I treasure.
A small alabaster marble owl, which I brought my mum back from Italy when I went skiing. It has a chunk out the bottom where I tried to use it as a hammer. I remember my mum telling me to hit the nail in the wall with it. We both laughed so much. You can't see the damage until you turn it over.
And to remind me of my dad, a small earthenware pot which I chose and he bought, for Mothers Day when I was 8.
They are worthless to anyone else but to me, they are priceless.
Treasure those things

 

[speccy1]

Same with your things, it`s also the little imperfections that make them special, enjoy

 

[Sharky]

I've still got my Dad's chain whip.

 

[gavroche]

My son said to me a while ago that he would like my French Army certificate when I'm gone. So I said to him:" Why wait till then, you can have it now if you want." So I had it framed professionally and gave it to him.
It now hangs on his office wall, next to his grandfather's resistance medal ( my dad).

 

[Spoked Wheels]

I always was very close to my grandparents, and still am to my nan who is still battling on in the indestructable way that she always has, and at 86 is as fit as a fiddle bless her

Unfortunately I lost my grandad 11 years ago, which was a massive loss to me, and as a result I am very protective of my dear old nan, would jump through burning rings for her. Anyway, she gave me his grandfather clock recently (I`m not even a dad, but that`s a minor detail haha!) which hasn`t run since he died, no matter how many times it went to the clock menders, it was having none of it, I find that spooky.................

Anyhoo, I managed to purchase and fit a new movement to it, and it`s running/chiming beautifully in my dining room, and that sound takes me right back to when he was here

That clock to me now is priceless, if my house was on fire I would rescue it, and would never give it to anybody else at any cost.

I may be daft or over sentimental, but that`s me

My wife and I are very close to our grandchildren and our lives now revolve around them. We would like to be remembered the way you remember your grandparents somehow, I feel we wont see much of them when we are old and useless

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

I've got my Grandfather's wall clock - pendulum thingy. It was given to him as a wedding present before WW1. My father took it with him on a house move and it got quite badly damaged. When my mother passed it on to me I had it restored. The pendulum swings, the hands go round and the chimes chime. All I do is wind it up about once a week. Great wee job to do and reminds me of both Grandad and Dad.

 

[speccy1]

My son said to me a while ago that he would like my French Army certificate when I'm gone. So I said to him:" Why wait till then, you can have it now if you want." So I had it framed professionally and gave it to him.
It now hangs on his office wall, next to his grandfather's resistance medal ( my dad).

How lovely

 

[speccy1]

My wife and I are very close to our grandchildren and our lives now revolve around them. We would like to be remembered the way you remember your grandparents somehow, I feel we wont see much of them when we are old and useless

I worship the ground mine walk on, hope yours do the same for you, am sure they will!

 

[stephec]

Pics! Also, as an aspiring mechanical engineer, and a lover of clock/watch mechanisms. Photographs of the insides would be awesome.

I love these old stuff, and wish they would come back and replace the damn batteries the world is obsessed with!

Seconded, pic's are needed.

I've got two cuckoo clocks and a grandfather clock.

 

[stephec]

That's great, speccy........well done. I have my father's number plate on my car (he left it to me in his will). I'll always treasure it - every time I see it, it reminds me of him.

That's proper cool.

 

[speccy1]

Seconded, pic's are needed.

I've got two cuckoo clocks and a grandfather clock.

Will see what I can do!!

 

[Accy cyclist]

Of my dad's stuff i have his camera from when he was in Hong Kong doing his National Service in the early 1950's, his medal from that campaign, pictures from those day, his City and Guilds Coach building certificate, his flat cap, his wool jumpers which i wear for work and cycling on cold days, some of his work tools such as his 1940's wood plane, his old listen to the police radio, and bits of other stuff.
I always had my eye on my mum's 1954 Bush Radiogram. Her mum and dad bought it new. I remember listening to it in their house in the early 1960's. It's worth about 40 quid money wise but sentimentally to me it's priceless, but i don't think i'll ever get it as it's with her in her room in the old folks home. I think nasty brother will either take it himself or sell it to spite me.

 

[Globalti]

I still use my Grandad's old Parker ballpoint pen, the gold plating has worn off the top and it's a bit dented and has had a new barrel and countless refills but is still a nice writing instrument. Every time I think I've lost it my heart gives a little leap and I think: "Is that it? Lost for good?" but always find it again.

 

[Alex H]

I always was very close to my grandparents, and still am to my nan who is still battling on in the indestructable way that she always has, and at 86 is as fit as a fiddle bless her

Unfortunately I lost my grandad 11 years ago, which was a massive loss to me, and as a result I am very protective of my dear old nan, would jump through burning rings for her. Anyway, she gave me his grandfather clock recently (I`m not even a dad, but that`s a minor detail haha!) which hasn`t run since he died, no matter how many times it went to the clock menders, it was having none of it, I find that spooky.................

Anyhoo, I managed to purchase and fit a new movement to it, and it`s running/chiming beautifully in my dining room, and that sound takes me right back to when he was here

That clock to me now is priceless, if my house was on fire I would rescue it, and would never give it to anybody else at any cost.

I may be daft or over sentimental, but that`s me

I was never close to my Grandparents - we lived in Essex, they lived in Fife and most had passed on by the time I was 10. My Dad inherited a wall clock from his Mum, which had been a wedding present to her in 1906. I remember, as a small boy sleeping in the same room as the thing - it's chimes were very loud! He brought it home, put it up on the wall and it refused to go. Any wall direction, any number of adjustments to the level, it may have run for a couple of hours and then would stop. Took it to a jewellers who then had it running in the shop for a week after a cleaning. Brought it back home - no go.

When I got married he gave it to me. Put it up in the hall of our first house and every subsequent house where it has never failed to work
I've turned the chime hammer round, so that it's silent at the mo', it's seems very loud in this house .