What mementos from you past to you keep?

[MarathonMike]

I'm not an overly sentimental person but there are a few mementos of my past I hang onto. The first is my LP album collection. I have about a hundred left, it used to be quite a bit larger collection but a series of roommates and moves whittled it down to it's current size. I've got Foghat, Ted Nugent, Elton John, Pat Matheny, Michael Jackson, Rick James, The Doors, Santana and other genres pretty much everything except country. And as I've gotten older I even like country but mostly the older stuff.
The second is my set of Powerbllt persimmon woods that I played with when I played junior college golf. We weren't that good I don't think our team ever won a tournament competition but lots of fun memories from those days. My son who is a golfer laughed when I brought them out and he saw how small the heads were compared to today's metal woods.

The other two things I keep are my baseball cards and coin collection from when I was a kid. I've got some pretty good cards from the late 60s that are worth some bucks but I'll never sell them. I have quite a few silver coins but nothing really rare. I just remember how fun it was to buy a roll of dimes or quarters and open it up and find some silver coins sprinkled in with the post 1964 coins.

 

[1srelluc]

1955 Marlin 336 "Texan" in .35 Remington. My mom bought it for my dad in 1956.

I killed my first and last "opening day" deer with it.....50 years apart.

 

[sealybobo]

I'm not an overly sentimental person but there are a few mementos of my past I hang onto. The first is my LP album collection. I have about a hundred left, it used to be quite a bit larger collection but a series of roommates and moves whittled it down to it's current size. I've got Foghat, Ted Nugent, Elton John, Pat Matheny, Michael Jackson, Rick James, The Doors, Santana and other genres pretty much everything except country. And as I've gotten older I even like country but mostly the older stuff.
The second is my set of Powerbllt persimmon woods that I played with when I played junior college golf. We weren't that good I don't think our team ever won a tournament competition but lots of fun memories from those days. My son who is a golfer laughed when I brought them out and he saw how small the heads were compared to today's metal woods.

The other two things I keep are my baseball cards and coin collection from when I was a kid. I've got some pretty good cards from the late 60s that are worth some bucks but I'll never sell them. I have quite a few silver coins but nothing really rare. I just remember how fun it was to buy a roll of dimes or quarters and open it up and find some silver coins sprinkled in with the post 1964 coins.

Baseball cards
Coins
First guitar
All State Wrestling Medal
First gun (daisy red rider)
Baptism cross
This old chest from my grandmothers home like this

Oh yea, I still have the bambi wall art from my grandmothers home. They were still on the wall when she died. I ripped them off the wall

 

[Care4all]

My wedding dress and album, my yearbooks, my achievement awards from work which I am about ready to toss, all of our vacation albums and mementos from each that we bought, years of pictures of our wild animal friends we've made in Maine, my grandmother's sweater and a box of peppermint Chiclets and tissues that were in the pocket, the desk my grandfather had made...he was a master furniture maker, my very first Bible...that was mine...with all my pencilled notes through my journey of reading and studying it.....

WOW! This thread has been an eye opener for me personally!

 

[1srelluc]

Baseball cards
Coins
First guitar
All State Wrestling Medal
First gun (daisy red rider)
Baptism cross
This old chest from my grandmothers home like this
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Oh yea, I still have the bambi wall art from my grandmothers home. They were still on the wall when she died. I ripped them off the wall
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I have a Lane Art Deco Cedar chest I removed from my Grandmother's place....It was full of handmade quilts she made. The quilts are still in use.

It's a gun overflow "coffin" now.

See that cast iron bank above the Ruger box.

My G-Grandfather gave it to me and he filled it with silver dollars from the late 1800s. I stuck a couple gold pieces and some Spanish Reals I've dug while relic hunting in there.

 

[lg325]

Highschool year book, Model 514 Remington .22 single shot rifle. A birthday present from mom and dad I was around 11
I had others but keeping my stuff from druggy relatives was impossible.

 

[Darkwind]

My DD214 and all medals I have.

Other than that, not much.

I can't remember where I buried that klingon, but hey, I'm sure it's safe. Otherwise, The Star would have had front page news!

 

[Concerned American]

I'm not an overly sentimental person but there are a few mementos of my past I hang onto. The first is my LP album collection. I have about a hundred left, it used to be quite a bit larger collection but a series of roommates and moves whittled it down to it's current size. I've got Foghat, Ted Nugent, Elton John, Pat Matheny, Michael Jackson, Rick James, The Doors, Santana and other genres pretty much everything except country. And as I've gotten older I even like country but mostly the older stuff.
The second is my set of Powerbllt persimmon woods that I played with when I played junior college golf. We weren't that good I don't think our team ever won a tournament competition but lots of fun memories from those days. My son who is a golfer laughed when I brought them out and he saw how small the heads were compared to today's metal woods.

The other two things I keep are my baseball cards and coin collection from when I was a kid. I've got some pretty good cards from the late 60s that are worth some bucks but I'll never sell them. I have quite a few silver coins but nothing really rare. I just remember how fun it was to buy a roll of dimes or quarters and open it up and find some silver coins sprinkled in with the post 1964 coins.

I collected silver mint annual collections for about twenty years until the prices got out of hand. During that time the mint put out a 50th anniversary lunar landing commemorative coin that I bought. One of the most unique coins I've ever seen. It is dished and on the convex side the image is that famous picture of the reflection of the moon in the astronaut's face shield and on the concave side is the image of the foot print in the lunar dust.

 

[MarathonMike]

Oh, and I keep all my marathon medals on a tie rack in my closet. Maybe someday I'll make a nice display for them.

 

[Lockback]

Despite being a history guy, I don't have a lot from my past.
I have my first gun.
I have some old tickets to auto races back in the 1970s.
I have the first issue of Sports Illustrated that I found at my grandfather's.
But consider this: when I was a kid I had the first issue of Spider-Man, the first issue of Daredevl, the first issue of the X-Men , early issues of the Fantastic Four, Thor, Hulk, Iron Man, etc.
I threw the all away when I was about 14.
Do you have any idea what that collection would be worth now??
I have a couple of record albums but no turntable anymore.
No CDs anymore. I burned them all to a hard drive and thumb drives.
So not all that much.

 

[sealybobo]

I have a Lane Art Deco Cedar chest I removed from my Grandmother's place....It was full of handmade quilts she made. The quilts are still in use.



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It's a gun overflow "coffin" now.

See that cast iron bank above the Ruger box.

My G-Grandfather gave it to me and he filled it with silver dollars from the late 1800s. I stuck a couple gold pieces and some Spanish Reals I've dug while relic hunting in there.

My grandmother had a bunch of old silver dollars from the 1800's. My IDIOT dad shined them up real good. Cleaned them real good before he took them to sell them. Do you know what he did? He scratched the shit out of them!!! He got half what he would have if he just took them in dirty.

 

[Invisibleflash]

I'm not an overly sentimental person but there are a few mementos of my past I hang onto. The first is my LP album collection. I have about a hundred left, it used to be quite a bit larger collection but a series of roommates and moves whittled it down to it's current size. I've got Foghat, Ted Nugent, Elton John, Pat Matheny, Michael Jackson, Rick James, The Doors, Santana and other genres pretty much everything except country. And as I've gotten older I even like country but mostly the older stuff.
The second is my set of Powerbllt persimmon woods that I played with when I played junior college golf. We weren't that good I don't think our team ever won a tournament competition but lots of fun memories from those days. My son who is a golfer laughed when I brought them out and he saw how small the heads were compared to today's metal woods.

The other two things I keep are my baseball cards and coin collection from when I was a kid. I've got some pretty good cards from the late 60s that are worth some bucks but I'll never sell them. I have quite a few silver coins but nothing really rare. I just remember how fun it was to buy a roll of dimes or quarters and open it up and find some silver coins sprinkled in with the post 1964 coins.

Some of my dad's tools. Old family photos.

 

[MarathonMike]

My grandmother had a bunch of old silver dollars from the 1800's. My IDIOT dad shined them up real good. Cleaned them real good before he took them to sell them. Do you know what he did? He scratched the shit out of them!!! He got half what he would have if he just took them in dirty.

Wow what did he use, steel wool?

 

[1srelluc]

Wow what did he use, steel wool?

LOL....Scotch bright pad.

 

[JOSweetHeart]

I still have movies, books, music, board games, video games, and Legos.

God bless you always!!!

Holly

 

[Bitterhook]

Most of my mementos were stolen years ago, but a few still remain.

As someone already mentioned, my DD214.
Also, my father's binoculars and a wall sized map of the region he drew on silk.
A colored pencil museum matted original, named Windblown Hawk, that hung in my parent's house as long as I can remember.
And my mother's armoire as well as her rustic secretary with matching chair.

 

[sparky]

My old turnout gear the chief gave me when i retired.,.......~S~

 

[Concerned American]

My old turnout gear the chief gave me when i retired.,.......~S~

Thanks for your heroics.

 

[GLASNOST]

What mementos from you past to you keep?​

Back in the sixties, when my hair was long, the border crossing guards into El Paso would ask me, "What are you bringing over the border?" I would always reply, "Good memories, Ese!" Go ahead and ask me if they pulled my car apart looking for drugs. Yep, every time! Anyway, still today memories are all that I keep.

 

[Concerned American]

Back in the sixties, when my hair was long, the border crossing guards into El Paso would ask me, "What are you bringing over the border?" I would always reply, "Good memories, Ese!" Go ahead and ask me if they pulled my car apart looking for drugs. Yep, every time! Anyway, still today memories are all that I keep.

I've gone back and forth across that border crossing more times than I can count as well as at Palomas, Nogales, Algodonez and Tijuana and I've never been looked at twice.