If you're over forty...

[Baitball Blogger]

What do you own that still remains from your first apartment?

I have a cheap gold metal stand that has a holder for a wicker fan. It was purchased to provide backlight. My husband keeps it because it provides good lighting when he paints a room.

I also have my first blanket that I purchased from Burdines. My daughter confiscated it and turned it into a "blankie." She doesn't take it with her when she leaves for Boston, but sleeps with it when she comes home. It is so tattered and worn, but there's no way I can throw it away, nor can I fix it because the fabric is so incredibly soft for cotton.

[Bunnahabhain]

1. Interesting Question

Over 40 here and I moved out when I was 17. I was about to post, "Absolutely nothing" and then I remembered I do have two items. I have a set of beer mugs, back from when pubs used actual glass mugs to serve draft beer, that I liberated from my favorite local haunt. Almost 30 years later and I have them on a lit display shelf behind my home bar.

[Baitball Blogger]

20. Good mementos.

[a la izquierda]

2. I'm 36, so close enough

I have a coffee table that has punk band stickers all over it.

I should get rid of it.

[RiffRandell]

16. Don't!

That's a keeper!

[a la izquierda]

18. I won't

My husband would divorce me.

[RiffRandell]

19. I was going to say if you were, I might be interested in it!

My husband's bass case is covered in punk and political stickers, but I'd prefer a coffee table.

Why didn't I ever do that?

[Baitball Blogger]

21. Too much to ask for a picture?

[TM99]

3. I still own all of the

hardware synths and samplers I bought for my first project studio in my little studio apartment. I didn't have much room but it was worth it.

These machines are still being used today by me.

[Baitball Blogger]

22. Not sure if this entails music or desktop publishing.

[TM99]

49. It isn't music or software.

Before modern music production went almost totally computer plugin based, there were analog and digital synthesizers with keyboards and hardware samplers.

Those objects I bought in my 20's and now in my late 40's, they are still with me....much like an old piece of furniture or a suit from your first communion.

[hobbit709]

4. Nada.

[Arugula Latte]

5. Some crappy assemble-it-yourself stuff, like a little dresser I keep in my closet.

[Baitball Blogger]

23. I just tossed a cardboard makeshift dresser.

Funny, but the piece that replaced it doesn't hold as much.

[Denninmi]

6. Dishes, silverware, glassware.

Been in boxes for almost 30 years.

Why am I keeping this junk?

[Baitball Blogger]

24. Garage sale time.

Or craigslist.

[mulsh]

7. I have lots of stuff. I have the high end knifes I got when started working as a cook at 18.

I have a coffee cup that I bought when I was in 6th grade and used every day until I was in my late 20's. I have my grandmother's crystal lamp. As far as musical instruments go I have an acoustic 6 string and 12 string guitar and a Gibson 150 electric that I"ve owned since around 1976. the list goes on. I tend to keep the solidly made and useful stuff and jettison the crap as I roll along.

[Baitball Blogger]

25. You sound very organized.

[RiffRandell]

8. Good question.

A framed Mapplethorpe picture, a blanket my Nana knitted, concert ticket stubs, some books and believe it or not, some t-shirts and flannels I can't part with and sometimes still wear.

[Baitball Blogger]

26. I have a box of t-shirts that I've outgrown that I can't part with.

[Jenoch]

9. I still have a flaslight

that I got when I was 10 years old. If we're talking only about stuff purchased for a first apartment, then I can only think of a pizza pan and a can-opener.

[Baitball Blogger]

27. I have a pair of binoculars that I bought when I was eleven.

Use to sit at the end of the track on a hillside and watch the airport hanger below. Not much to see, but it was the best view.

[Jenoch]

35. I 'bought' a .22 rifle when I was 13,

(obviously my dad bought it, but it was my money.) I was never allowed to go shooting by myself and it was locked in a gunsafe otherwise, but I still have it. Actually, I have a lot of sporting stuff from my youth, binoculars and sheath knife I boight at 14 as well as a Winchester Model 94 Carbine when I was 15. The only item I still use with much frequency is the knife. Oh, I still use a compass I got at age 11.

The fishing rods and reels are long since gone, it was cheap stuff anyway.

[GoCubsGo]

10. All kinds of stuff...

My Revereware, some Corning ware, several towels, some sheets, numerous kitchen gadgets, and a lantern that I bought because I moved in before they could get the power turned on.

[Baitball Blogger]

28. Kitchen things rarily go out of style.

[GoCubsGo]

36. Yep. Even my crock pot is still kicking.

The temperature control knob broke off, so I have to use pliers to switch between Lo and HI, but it still does the job 25 years into it.

[Baitball Blogger]

37. LOL! Kitchen tools: plier.

Sounds like my kitchen.

[Auggie]

11. I have some Corell dishes from my college apartment

I bought it summer of 1977. Still use it occasionally.

And a clamp desk lamp I used on my drafting table. That's in the garage and used daily. I also have the drafting table, but that's disassembled and in the attic.

[Baitball Blogger]

29. I have an old, rusty army issue stapler and hole puncher

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I think they will outlast a nuclear attack.

[grilled onions]

12. Useful and Useless

A handful of Old Hickory paring knives that can still do what its' supposed to. There are a couple spatulas that were part of an avocado colored set still in decent shape. There is a quilt like blanket that I had when I was 8. It's far too old to use or wash but it's still too "good" to throw away! I still have Chimp(I got him in 1955) and he has gone everywhere I have. His head is ready to fall off and one of his ears too but he's still my handsome boy! I also still have all my 45's that I had in my "tender years"--were they really that tender?

[Baitball Blogger]

30. My husband and I still have our turntables.

My poor daughter thinks she's going to get rich when she inherits them.

[magical thyme]

13. a Norfolk Island Pine

It was maybe 6" tall at most, in a tiny pot.

30+ years later, it's over 6' tall in a big pot. When I moved up here 10 years ago, one van trip was dedicated to the tree, which had to ride on it's side (on a diagonal) with other stuff wedged in around it.

[Baitball Blogger]

31. Thanks for reminding me.

When my daughter was born my husband's boss gave her a small green plant arrangement. The plant is a skinny palm tree that grew five feet tall. Not much to look at, but there's no way to part with it.

[Phentex]

14. Shower radio from 1984...

pots and pans that were my mom's and grandmother's. May be other stuff but I am still using these on a regular basis.

[Baitball Blogger]

32. Shower radio.

I remember those

[alphafemale]

15. Nothing....but

I do still have a bamboo carving in a glass case that my employer gave me. The person who employed me when I lived in my first apartment.

She gave it to me years later though because I dropped in when I heard she was retiring.

I regularly purge of possessions though. My mother was a hoarder and too much crap gives me hives.

[Baitball Blogger]

33. Purging is good.

Especially if you don't have any sentimental attachment to things.

[femmocrat]

17. Some pieces of furniture--

They are still used but in more "hidden" areas of the house. I can't wait to get rid of some of this junk.

[Baitball Blogger]

34. I know what you mean.

We had some hand me downs from my husband's mother that we finally let go of. It just cluttered the place up. Someone might find incredible value in the coffee table with the strange wrought iron swirls, but, it just never worked for us.

[mysuzuki2]

38. I have a small saucepan left from my set of Farberware.

It was a Christmas present from my parents in 1970, the first year Cathy and I were married. The saucepan has lasted about 20 years longer than Cathy did!

[marzipanni]

39. I have a couple of striped Indian bedspreads,

one in shades of blue and purple with dark blue block print over the stripes, and one orange and light red. I folded them up and put them away after I got a cat and a dog- their toenails poke holes in loosely woven material!

[MadrasT]

40. One framed art deco print

And I think my old kitchen table is down in the basement somewhere

And some books

And some dishes

Wow - that is about it though

[Bertha Venation]

41. a Mickey Mouse beer mug, and a cheap little amplifier. n/t

[Sherman A1]

42. Several Things,

the first that comes to mind is an end table that I bought unfinished, then stained & varnished myself about 1976.

[kwassa]

43. I just threw out the teflon 9" pan that I bought in 1971 in my first college apartment.

Teflon finally wore out.

I still have toenail clippers that I stole from my parents in 1970 when I moved to college. The clippers aren't very sharp anymore.

[Iggo]

44. Only memories.

[Arctic Dave]

45. Hmmm.

I still have my P Coat and Navy medals and stuff.

Some wine glasses I bought in Bahrain.

A couple of books and photo albums.

Oh yeah, my wife.

[Baitball Blogger]

52. P coats are still very in.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

46. A Hopalong Cassidy chocolate milk mug from when I was a kid in the 1950s

and it still looks brand new, with Hoppie's image holding two six guns. I also have my first violin made in Germany from when I was three, a Roth.

[DFW]

47. An old mid-sixties Guild 212XL 12 string guitar

I used it on the first album I ever recorded, and it still sounds ever so sweet.

I can think of nothing else that remains

[u4ic]

48. This Vogue cover poster book

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Vogue-Poster-Book-Collection-1911-1927/dp/0517520443

a few dinner plates that are oven safe (very few are these days) and some childhood memorabilia (school report cards, pictures, etc).

My last move was a big one, and it was very freeing to purge myself of so much stuff. If I need to get rid of stuff, I know I can always find something else that I'll like to replace it.

[Baitball Blogger]

54. I remember that one!

[DebJ]

50. Most of my bedroom furniture.

Though the ex got one nightstand (of two) and a chest of drawers.

[TexasTowelie]

51. A few T-shirts, a couple of record albums that are probably not in good shape

and my 1987 fractal images calendars that had coded indicators of which psychedlics I was using. The first five months was at the end of my senior year in college. The latter part of the year didn't have as many highlights since I entered grad school in San Marcos and was behaving respectably. I stayed in grad school until Thanksgiving when I got my first job and dropped without record. In some ways I wished that I stuck it out because I had a 4.0 going at that time and never did better than a 3.5 as an undergrad.

[Avalux]

53. A New Order poster.....

just like this one. Apparently worth a little bit of money, but I'm not selling.

[blueknight]

55. nothing

but some damn fun memories!

[Throd]

56. Still have my first car.

[surrealAmerican]

57. My grandmother's towels.

She died a few months before I went away to college in 1981. Those towels don't look very good any more, all frayed and faded. My son uses them now. I should probably get him some better ones, which would mean they would become "dog towels".