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Sometimes it's not about the monetary value, but the sentiments and memories attached to an item.
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#1
My Mom Died When I Was Young. My Dad Turned Her Engagement Ring Into A Necklace For Me. I Cherish This Gift.
Final score:
38points
Mama Penguin 3 years ago
That's really very sweet. I'm sorry you lost your mom at a young age.
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#2
Great-Grandfather's WW1 Medals That Were Framed
Kara Born 3 years ago
I didn't know those were a thing. I guess I've learned at least one new thing today
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Kevin Teng 3 years ago
Thats cool. I have some chinese medals from the 1940-50s that my great-grandfather owned
#3
Not Old, But It Represents Coffee With My Grandfather Who Passed 12 Years Ago
Final score:
26points
Mama Penguin 3 years ago
Aww that's really sweet :) It's nice that you have wonderful memories attached to it.
Pheebs (Submission author) 3 years ago
Thanks! :) I didn’t get to go to the funeral, but my sibling made sure to go to the house while he was there just to grab the cup for me. It’s also good memories with my dad as it was usually the 3 of us.
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Paula McCabe 3 years ago
💜This is a SPECIAL WHITE COFFEE CUP with SNOOPY LOGO" this coffee cup DEFINITELY was your "GO TO FAVORITE"💜Yep, THAT'S a KEEPER 💜
Hagen Radcliffe 3 years ago
my Dad loved Charlie Brown, Snoopy & those guys. A very serious, quiet and strict man but he would burst into laughter at the comics It makes me smile to see Snoopy doing his happy dance!
Bittersweetie 3 years ago
Well I can tell he was cool just by the cup! And it's the little things like this that mean the most imo!
Pheebs (Submission author) 3 years ago
Lol. It was a freebie he got from Pizza Hut when I was little or something, but super nice milk glass. Started having coffee with him and my dad (instead hanging with my grumpy grandmother or cousins) when I was about 8, and that was the most kid-friendly cup he had. He stated keeping it at the front of the cupboard as my dad brought us over at least once a month. I used that cup right up until he died when I was 23. My hubs found another one on eBay so I could put the one from my grandfather’s away. He was an absolute trip, though. Loved all his family equally.
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Not Heirloom But When My Grandfather Died, Family Looted His Toolbox. What Was Left Was Way Better. It Was Things He'd Saved To Use Again.
Final score:
23points
Bittersweetie (Submission author) 3 years ago
It's old cloth covered wire that he wanted to hang onto so he wrapped it around a wooden dowel to keep it under control till he needed it. Now that I think about it I have rogue wires in the bottom of my tool bag I should do this DUH! 😁
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Nimues Child 3 years ago
My brother restored my grandfather's toolbox and kept everything in it. There was lots of stuff like this.
Paula McCabe 3 years ago
💜My Hubby USES "HEIRLOOM TOOLS" Personally❓My Dad passed at (98) & I TREASURE the "Wooden Handle that has white dried paint, "BALL PING HAMMER"💜
Hagen Radcliffe 3 years ago
A silly ?, … what does that mean a”family looted his toolbox”? Did they think he kept gold & jewels in it ?
Bittersweetie (Submission author) 3 years ago
Sometime's there's just greedy relatives that take things without asking and it seems like stealing... So I just used the word looting because that's how it felt the way people acted after he died.
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My (Future) Mother, 18, Posing In Front Of Her Parents House In Biskra, Algeria, Sent This Picture To Her Father, Dying Of Cancer In France, With A Leaf Of His Favorite Olive Tree. 75 Years Later, I’ve Still Got The Picture And The Leaf. She Died 7 Years Ago At 86.
Final score:
19points
#6
My Late Father's Piano, Repurposed As A Bar
Final score:
13points
Rabbit Carrot 3 years ago
Esh I mean it’s cool if he repurposed it but if you gutted it then urgh, you’ve just ruined a piano. 🤷♀️
Jason Popovich 3 years ago
My Grandfather carved a bar out of a single Redwood tree that had fallen in California and shipped it to MN where he lived. He also built a fireplace completely out of agates picked from Lake Superior.
#7
The Only Item I Kept From My Grandmother. They Don't Make Ladles (And Other Things) Like They Used To.
Final score:
12points
#8
A Gift My Grandfather Had Made For My Grandmother During Ww2 While He Was Stationed In The South Pacific. Not Sure What Type Of Stone Its Set On. They Met On A Blind Date, Got Married 5 Days Later And 5 Days After That He Was Shipped Off. They Didn't See Each Other Again For 2 And 1/2 Years. They Were Married For 55 Years. .
Final score:
11points
#9
A Clock Like This Hung In The Kitchen Of My Grandmother's House For Years. After She Passed Away I Wanted To Keep It, But Before I Could It Was Thrown Away
Final score:
8points
Bittersweetie 3 years ago
I agree with Dee, no shame in having a replica if you can... It will still bring the joy when you see it! It's so sweet!
Scott Crowell 3 years ago
Same here. My Uncle cleared out my grandparents house and started remolding it 5 days after My grandfather went to a senior Citizen Home to live!
#10
Lobster Claw (Pen For Size). Sent From Maine To Denmark Just After Ww2, Filled With Chocolates.
Final score:
7points
Kirsten Mikkelsen (Submission author) 3 years ago
This is a family heirloom in my husbands family since 1945. It is a real claw from a monstrous specimen of the Maine lobsters.
#11
First Time Post. My Oldest Brother Making A Call On His Play Phone, Christmas- Late Fifties/Early Sixties. Check Out The Muntz TV. Still Had It When I Was Born 7 Years Later.
Final score:
5points
#12
Given To Me By My Grandma When I Was Five In 1976. It Wasn’t Hers, But It’s All I Have To Remember Her.
Final score:
5points
Susan Williams 3 years ago (edited)
I had a large, framed list of all my ancestors in England beginning with Henry Smith in the 12th century.. My brother wanted it even though my mother had specifically given it to me. He and his son visited me,,, one day, and while his son distracted me, my brother took it off my front room wall, without my knowing, and drove away with it.. I will never recover from the shock of that.
#13
Fireman's Badge Like My Grandfather Wore For 30 Yrs. He Started Out As A Volunteer And Worked His Way Up To Being A Captain.
Final score:
5points
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Dan Faires 3 years ago
A 1932 30:06 Remington super savage it has an Alaskan M82 scope on it. My grandfather fed his family with it so did my dad and so did I I hope my son never has to use to feed his family but it shoots straight and is very solid.
notnow 3 years ago
My parents were divorced and they are both gone now. In my purse, I have my dad's old wallet and my momma's change purse. I would rather have them and use them as opposed to putting them up and never seeing them again. Even at the risk of losing them. They make me smile and my breathing slows a bit when I use them.
Elizabeth Milliken 3 years ago
A baptismal gown first worn by my great grandfather in 1909, made from the skirt of his mother's wedding dress. He and his siblings wore it and, I believe, also my grandma. It was lost/forgotten for my mother, aunt, and I, but both my (much younger) cousins also wore it as well as my two oldest children (the youngest is a pandemic baby so he outgrew it before we could safely visit my, then, 90 year old grandparents who have it.). We have a wonderful photo of my great grandma (said great grandpa's wife of 76 years) holding my daughter, her great great granddaughter and namesake, wearing the gown on Grandma's 100th birthday, both of them born in '09 of different centuries.
RafCo 3 years ago
My grandfather was an artist, and i have a bunch of his paintings. When he passed, my brother and I went to clear out the house. There were hundreds of then. Some from as early as 1937, he would have been 17 at the time. He was an amazing artist, and his art took him around Europe. Particularly after the War, he spent most of the 50s living in Paris, Lisbon, and Barcelona with my mother and grandmother.
Margrete Sonnenberg 3 years ago
Family ring my mom is wearing. It was her mom's ring and it will be my ring when my mom passes.
Dan Faires 3 years ago
A 1932 30:06 Remington super savage it has an Alaskan M82 scope on it. My grandfather fed his family with it so did my dad and so did I I hope my son never has to use to feed his family but it shoots straight and is very solid.
notnow 3 years ago
My parents were divorced and they are both gone now. In my purse, I have my dad's old wallet and my momma's change purse. I would rather have them and use them as opposed to putting them up and never seeing them again. Even at the risk of losing them. They make me smile and my breathing slows a bit when I use them.
Elizabeth Milliken 3 years ago
A baptismal gown first worn by my great grandfather in 1909, made from the skirt of his mother's wedding dress. He and his siblings wore it and, I believe, also my grandma. It was lost/forgotten for my mother, aunt, and I, but both my (much younger) cousins also wore it as well as my two oldest children (the youngest is a pandemic baby so he outgrew it before we could safely visit my, then, 90 year old grandparents who have it.). We have a wonderful photo of my great grandma (said great grandpa's wife of 76 years) holding my daughter, her great great granddaughter and namesake, wearing the gown on Grandma's 100th birthday, both of them born in '09 of different centuries.
RafCo 3 years ago
My grandfather was an artist, and i have a bunch of his paintings. When he passed, my brother and I went to clear out the house. There were hundreds of then. Some from as early as 1937, he would have been 17 at the time. He was an amazing artist, and his art took him around Europe. Particularly after the War, he spent most of the 50s living in Paris, Lisbon, and Barcelona with my mother and grandmother.
Margrete Sonnenberg 3 years ago
Family ring my mom is wearing. It was her mom's ring and it will be my ring when my mom passes.
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