Does it hold sentimental value? Has it just lasted ages?
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I have a toy train from the 1976 USA bicentennial. I was born in 1974, so it’s the oldest thing I’ve owned since new.
Here’s an example on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4d4e_net1HQ
Made by Lionel to be a ‘gotta catch them all’ type deal, which they milked for four years if you wanted the full 15 piece set (engine, caboose, and 13 boxcars for the 13 original colonies). I do not have them all, but both my dad & I each had the engine, and between us we had enough of the common cars to build a nice enough playset to run around the Christmas tree.
Mildly interesting, in that Lionel can build some really nice toys, but this was not one of them. Train collectors call this generation the “Mostly Plastic Crap” era, and this set solidly ticks that box. Perhaps interesting (or frustrating), Lionel also made quality stuff during this exact same timeframe. You just had to know what to look for. But in hindsight, probably a good thing this was cheap. If it had been a nice set, I wouldn’t have gotten to play with it as a 2 year old…
Over the years I’ve updated these engines with the better parts, I’d argue they run better than when they were new. Quite proud of that - as a kid I ran my engine until it simply could not run any more. Decades later I was able to not only repair it, but improve it. It will not ever be valuable, but it still makes me happy when I pull them out & run them around. Really triggers the old memories.
I have a playstation 2 memory card somewhere :3, I had that since I was like 4. and yeah I just kinda kept it for the memories… my mom found it years after our ps2 broke and was gonna toss it but I took it
You could copy the save files to your PC and enjoy them again, in case the memory card ever stops functioning!
Im not sure that it’s not already non-functional to be honest, it hasn’t been used in just about 2 decades
And also im not entirely sure where I would source an adapter needed to hook one of these up to the PC to be honest :3
Mines, which were PS1 cards, were working some years ago (and I hope they still do). So just in case I copied every file, not using an adapter, but with a jailbroken PS2. I don’t remember exactly how, I just know I had FreeMcBoot on a new PS2 memory card (which I think I got because a friend had an already jailbroken one) and with that I could copy the files to the usb, then from usb to pc.
I have a teddy bear that my parents bought for me the day I was born. Made this an easy answer.
Mine’s a blue bunny.
The hospital gifted me mine
You show me yours and I’ll show you mine ლ(́◉◞౪◟◉‵ლ)
My double great grandfather was into coin collecting and I have his coin collection.
That specific coin was the first one he collected out of many niche coins.
i migrated when i was 25 with just one suitcase, so easy to narrow down to objects i brought and still have 22 gears later, which would be 2 passports, one T-shirt that doesn’t fit since long ago, and an altimeter, which i brought because it is small and i used to be into climbing
70s alarm clock
My silver spoon. Got mine when I was baptized as a baby.
Contrary to the stereotype, I did not grow up rich and privileged.Have used it as any other utensil my whole life. It’s a nice sized spoon. Not too big, not too small. Only downside to it, is that silver absorbs the temperatures of whatever food or beverage you stick it into, so if it’s really hot soup, prepare to get burned and if it’s icecream, it will be almost frosty to the touch. It’s not the prettiest sight, since I don’t bother polishing it. To me it has the same value as my childhood pair of scissors, that I got in kindergarten and still use today because they are still sharp. Shit was made to last back in the day. Even my teddy bear, which was once stolen by a classmate, who did his best to rip his head off - and failed - is solid. His seams are not giving up despite pushing 40 years on this planet. I genuinely don’t know what he’s made of, because that bear has been through ALOT and he still looks super well preserved, which is something most people in my life have commented on, when they have seen him on my bookshelf.
Hmmm…space invaders cartridge for the vc2600 from 1980. Jeez am I an old fart…still gaming daily since then.
I have a stuffed Abu from Aladdin I’ve had since about when it came out in '92
A copy of Junkbots, Bugbots, and Bots on Wheels book I got about 25 years ago. That’s when I started my electronics hobby. It’s hard to get back to it with the motivation/enjoyment I had before. Holding on to it, maybe the motivation will come back .
I still have toys family members gave me when I was born.
I have a coffee cup with Hercules Disney move theme that I drink from daily and is 29 years old.
Guitar. My dad gave me his 1964 Guild T100D when I was about 15. So I’ve had it for… 40 years!
It’s a beaut. Thin, sunburst hollow body with a pair of humbuckers and beautiful f-holesProbably my copy of the book of The Fox and the Hound, that my parents read to me when I was like toddler age. Honestly it doesn’t have particular sentimental value other than I think it’s cool to still have something from basically when I was born. And it’s a lovely story too.
The runners up are probably my two acoustic guitars that are both in disrepair. And a red and blue flannel shirt that has somehow lasted about two decades and never aged or even lost a button.
This hourglass I stole in kindergarten. It was used to measure time for brushing teeth. It also used to have a suction cup, but over the years it partially decomposed.
