s/o Sugarbear's discovery: what item is precious to you...

[CurlyQ284]

When I was a preteen my grandparents gave me this chest. It looks kind of like a pirate treasure chest or an old timey trunk. There's a picture of a ship in a storm painted on the lid. I put everything important to me in there. Cards and dried flowers from DH, pictures the kids have drawn, the tassel from HS and college graduations and some other things.

The chest itself is as special to me as all the things in it. I miss my grandparents all the time.

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The first quilt my mom ever made. I was about 6 years old at the time. It has ink stains, the fabric is worn completely out it places and has been matched so many times it is almost a different quilt now. But it is soft and cozy and makes me feel better when I am sick. I watched my mom cry and scream and rip the thing apart out of frustration. I love it now and I feel like some day when she is gone I will be extra glad to have it.

[iamgrace]

A small illustration is a girl watering flowers. Underneath it says " the flowers of tomorrow are in the seeds of today".

It hung in my room as a small girl, and all through my life. It now hangs in Clare's room. I don't know where it cane from- probably just something my mom thought was nice, but I will keep it forever (unless Clare wants it).

The saying is so meaningful to me on several levels.

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Mar 9, 2014 11:38:01 GMT -5 W.T.Faulkner said:

That somebody else might mistake for trash?  In other words, what item in your house has only a special meaning to you?

There is a scrap of newspaper from 1993 in my wallet right now.  It's a clipping of a horoscope.  My grandmom, who passed in 2010, used to clip pages and pages of newspaper articles for me the whole time I was growing up.  We were close, and she died very suddenly, and I felt pretty directionless and heartbroken. 

After she died, my aunt was cleaning out her house and found a horoscope she had clipped for me, but never gave me, from when I was 4 years old.  The horoscope she sent said that Virgos are "born to do great things" and that they must follow their hearts.  My aunt gave it to me just before I graduated from college, when I was applying for jobs, and it honestly felt like a hug from my grandmother, whom I missed so much.  A few weeks later, I got the job I wanted and got into grad school.

It's still there, and it will be until it disintegrates.  

That is so cool! Your aunt sounds like a pretty awesome lady too to think to do that.

[iamali]

I'm rather unsentimental about most things, but I have two that I can think of.

The first is the teeny tiny knitted cap that my son wore when he was in the NICU. I keep it in my sock drawer.

The second is a pair of earrings that were my sisters and I wear them at least 2x a week. I know it sounds dumb, but when I touch them I think of her, in a happy way. I remember her wearing them. They are incredibly special to me.

[auntie]

I don't know that I have anything others would consider "worthless".

We had a flood in our first house- 3' of water on the second floor. We lost a lot of sentimental stuff; but it really drove home what matters. When we went back into the house, I took a crow bar to the MCM limed oak dresses that had been my grandmother's so I could get my jewelry out. While feeling around in the mud for my original wedding ring, pearls, my signet, charm bracelets, etc I came across a little plastic treasure chest that contained DS's baby teeth. I pretty much lost everything that day and was moved to tears by baby teeth.