Do you still have a cherished memento from your childhood?

[terrya]

Something that you had as a child and still keep?

Terry

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

1. Matchbox cars

In a shoe box. Mess with them and you die.

[Kadie]

2. Still have my Teddy Bear.

Packed away safely, I will never get rid of him.

[absyntheNsugar]

3. Teddy Bear

worn and tattered, hairless and leaking.

But I will never throw him away...

[Deja Q]

4. Teddy Bear... nearly lost him too.

Medium sized green patchwork teddy bear.

Mom was going to give him to Goodwill... stopped her in time, but the bunny rabbit with the red shirt that, when I was ~3, had grabbed and put into the shopping cart had gone. :cry:

Great, now I'm thinking about my childhood again... I don't want to remember.

[Bertha Venation]

5. a photo of my mother

I like it because I see her for the woman she once was and should have been had she made it past 33.

I often think of my first baseball glove. I can still remember what it smelled like -- leather, oil, grass, dirt, and summer. I wish I still had it.

[NightTrain]

6. Yes: my sanity.

Given my childhood (and adolescence), it wasn't the easiest damned thing for me to hold on to!

[Nevernose]

7. Where are my teddy's eye buttons?

Teddy is, these days, a fairly creepy looking teddy bear. My kid refuses to look at him because the empty sockets are so damned disquitening.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

8. My grandmother's key chain... I made the metal part in metal shop

and the wooden part with her initals in wood shop.

Been 30 years since she is gone... I still miss her.

[Gildor Inglorion]

9. My "Indian" blanket

I got it when I was six years old. It has American Indian designs and silhouettes on it. I wouldn't part with it for anything.

[proud patriot]

10. Yep !

Many Things :D

[AlFrankenFan]

11. A stuffed piggie I use as a pillow

I received it (or rather my mother did) even before I was born 14 years ago from her co-worker. Keep in mind this is the same guy who said I was a "cute, little fetus" at my first birthday party :P

[starroute]

12. Far too much -- I'm a pack rat

As an extreme example, when I was three, the little boy upstairs gave me some strangely shaped pieces of plastic in a variety of colors with numbers and dates stamped into them. I think they must have been samples or test items from where his father worked, but at the time they seemed very mysterious and I was fascinated by them. They had holes in the corners, so I strung them on a string and liked to carry them around with me. I still have them.

Among the clutter currently on my desk is a paperweight in the form of a giant paper clip that I've had since I was maybe eight or nine. In the desk drawer are the red-handled scissors that I got when I was three or four. In another drawer are the weird little magnet with a wooden handle that I've had for as long as I can remember, my grandfather's magnifying glass in its worn leather case that I used constantly when I was a kid, and my Girl Scout knife and compass.

I also still have the toychest I got passed down from my cousin when I was three (it's currently in the basement, full of extra computer keyboards and speakers) and the bookcase I got when I was five.

Dolls? Oh, my parents leaned on me to give them away to the orphans when I was about twelve. I've regretted it from time to time, but I think I probably care about this other stuff more.

[pagerbear]

13. Thank you!

...for spelling "memento" correctly!

[clyrc]

14. a doll quilt my great grandmother made for me

it has stains and it needs to be sewn in places, but I've had it since I was 2 and it is precious to me.

[camero]

15. a picture of me in the newspaper

Where they asked me to get in a locker and the caption read, "Well, you told me to put EVERYTHING in my locker". It was taken when I was in the 1st grade in 1972.

[bubblesby2002]

19. Uncanny isn't it?

That's one of the things I have too - a picture of me sitting on Santa's lap pinching his big red nose with a caption that says "she wants everything including Santa's nose! - pretty silly. I was seven.:hi:

[camero]

20. It is...lol

I still remember my getting the picture taken to this day. I was so small I could fit inside the locker and I remember my teacher pulling me out of class to ask me to do it. I was small even then.

That's funny you had the same kind of caption. :hi:

[bubblesby2002]

21. Hey how are you?

I've been out with some friends watching the Canucks beat the Stars in overtime and having many drinks, and yelling and having fun. In fact I'm having another drink right now. What do you mean you're small - how tall are you? :D

[camero]

22. Hockey's always fun to watch

Especially when drinking. :) I eventually grew to be 5' 7.5" :D

Edit: I've been doing ok. I don't have to go back to the doctors for two weeks now. She took me off of the kidney meds because of the side effects.

[bubblesby2002]

24. Well I'm only 5'2"

so you're tall enough. I toast you with my whisky. :toast: ;)

[camero]

25. Whew

I had the song "Short People" going through my head for a minute there. ;)

[bubblesby2002]

27. lol

yeah no kidding. And you know what? I do have a little car. A purple honda. My voice doesn't squeak though.


They got little cars
That go beep, beep, beep
They got little voices
Goin' peep, peep, peep
;)

[camero]

28. ROFL

That song gave me nightmares. :D It was funny though.

[bubblesby2002]

29. What are you still doing up? Isn't it like 3 o'clock or something?

I'm glad you are up - it's kind of special to be having a conversation with guy who's 4000 miles away.;)

[camero]

30. I'm going to bed shortly. It's Sunday.

Nothing like the internet isn't it? :)

I think I should talk to my old trucking boss, he only paid me for 3500 miles for that trip...lol :D

[bubblesby2002]

31. I'm going to bed shortly too

You're probably right about the 3500 hundred miles, I'm a notorious exaggerator hahaha. So should I say goodnight, sleep tight?:-) ;)

[camero]

32. Don't let the bed bugs bite.

;) In a few minutes. I had to let the dogs out one more time.

[bubblesby2002]

33. Okay

Goodnight Charlie:hug:

[camero]

34. Goodnight

:hug:

[asthmaticeog]

16. My first teddy bear

Actually that bear was the first thing my parents ever gave me. (Apart from, you know, a place to live, food, diapers, etc... I'm adopted, so don't flame me for neglecting to include "life" in that list, cuz it just ain't so.)

Never named it, or if I did, its name's long forgotten, as are the whereabouts of its nose and one of its eyes.

[SarahB]

17. My Raggedy Ann doll my godmother made for me

[fortyfeetunder]

18. Sherlock Holmes hat

It was a wool plaid hat I bought in Scotland 30 years ago. I still wear it....not to mention some childhood books...

[BiggJawn]

23. "Music Memory Contest" certificates...

That was a contest for elementary school students in Indianapolis. The ISO (under Izler Solomon) would play snippets of classical pieces, WIRE radio carried it live, and we listened and filled out out answer sheets.
I participated in '64, '65, and '66.

All certificates are stamped "Pefect Score".

[GoddessOfGuinness]

26. Frenchie

The little black yarn poodle my babysitter made for me. She has rhinestone eyes that I used to love to look into as a child, thinking there was something magical in the refraction. :-)

[tedoll78]

35. I have a pillowcase.

It has the Peanuts on it. My mother bought it for me the year I was born (1978), and I used it - even if just as decoratively - until I went off to college. Now it's in a plastic ziplock bag. The colors have faded, and it's wearing a bit thin in some places, but I think of home when I see it. One day, it will be framed with picture of my childhood home.

[ashling]

36. Pair of red cowboy boots

from when I was 3 or 4 handmade for me by Delton Schilling at the Olsen-Steltzer boot factory in Henrietta ,Texas (where I was born)
I think Olsen-Steltzer was bought out by Nacona.

[VOX]

37. Some of my grandmother's Navajo baskets and weavings....

She collected these, and I always found them fascinating, even as a little kid.

[sweetheart]

38. scars, the moon and the ocean

On my knees and head are the various scars of childhood play gone
injurious.

I much cherished the moon and the ocean growing up, and still today
cherish them... more than things in my pockets.