What is the oldest item you have from your childhood?

Baby photo of me  - A black and white baby photo
@pyewacket (43903)
United States
May 12, 2007 6:11pm CST
Do any of you have something from your childhood..photos of yourself as a baby? Some little treasure you had as a kid and still have? I have three things..well more actually..do have a lot of photos of me as a baby...I include one here..heheehe--My baby shoe that was bronzed, and yup, believe it or not one of my first toys-- a stuffed kangaroo with a pouch that had a baby kangaroo in it...still have both! So what keepsake do you have from your childhood?
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@brendalee (6082)
• United States
12 May 07
I have many pictures. Thats one good thing my mom did, she took lots of pictures and made albums for all four of us kids. I also have the little card that was attached to my bassinet in the hospital nursery that told how much I weighed and stuff like that. I still have my dolls and barbie dolls. I had hoped I would have a daughter to give them to but when that didn't happen, I wished for granddaughters and that still didn't happen. But I am still hoping. I would love to pass these dolls on. Oh and I can't forget my "Fluffy". It was a blanket that I had as a young child. My son's father ripped it in half and was using it as an oil rag. I almost killed him for that. But I still have both halves.
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
13 May 07
I almost forgot that! I too have this baby book my mom had put together..it has the card and I still have that wristband thing they put on you whenever you're in the hospital plus cards and telegrams to congratulate my mom for the new arrival...ME!!!
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@urbangirl (1456)
• Australia
12 May 07
I have: * The detachable "cap" from my white fluffy coat worn at my Christening * my bikini top worn as a two year old (pretty cool - it's reversible - has two patterns) * lots and lots of black and white photos taken in Greece as a 1- 3 year old. * I used to have my cross given to me at my christening (until it was stolen) - it was beautifyl - a filigree, rose-gold design with a ruby in the middle. Everything else I had as a baby I think my mum gave away to relatives before we moved to Australia (for the first time).
@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
13 May 07
It's a shame you lost that cross...sounded beautiful--have you ever been able to get something similar..wouldn't be the same I realize, but still...
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@emeraldisle (13139)
• United States
13 May 07
I have a teddy bear that I was given when I was 2 years old by my great grandmother. Yeah it's been restuffed and I've had to repaint his eyes but he's still with me. I think I'll always have him. I call him Stuffy :), hey I named him when I was 2. I used to have a picture of myself when I first got him but I haven't seen that in years.
@emeraldisle (13139)
• United States
13 May 07
We were so imaginative weren't we? Oh well we knew that the name itself wasn't important. It's the love attached to it.
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
13 May 07
Yeah..like the Velveteen Rabbit kind of thing...and oh, did that movie make me cry!
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
13 May 07
I have a picture somewhere of me and my stuffed toy too...Stuffy huh? well I called my kangaroo stuffed toy Kangy Roo --LOL
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@byfaithonly (10698)
• United States
12 May 07
I have one photo of myself when I was a couple months old - my grandmother gave it to me a million years ago. The one item I have from my childhood that I really charish is a Raggedy Ann doll. I don't know how long I've had it but know it was before I was 7 It was the only thing I had from childhood with me when my father kidnapped me. I also have the bicycle my father and step-mother gave me for my birthday that first year with them - yes, it is really old but put some air in the tires and it's still ridable. Is however only 1 speed - mine :)
@byfaithonly (10698)
• United States
13 May 07
Yes, it was horrible but I survived - parents seperated before I was born, divorced when I was 1, saw my father a few time until mother had some problems and couldn't keep me, court awarded me to a great aunt I was very close to, but father came to Michigan from California and took be back with him. We couldn't return to Michigan for several years because there was a warrent out for him. Only really good thing that came out of it was I had a wonderful step-mother (she's my Mom) and I actually found my great aunt a couple of years ago, just before she passed away.
@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
12 May 07
OMG--you're father kidnapped you?? How horrible!
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
13 May 07
Sometimes the greatest survivors are those who had some traumatic experience in life!
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@ElicBxn (63194)
• United States
13 May 07
I have baby pix - in my photo album the kids hid in one of the sheds. I also have my 2nd stuffed giraffe. We don't know what happened to the first one. I was probably 4 or 5 when I got this one.
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@ElicBxn (63194)
• United States
13 May 07
I forgot to tell you what I call giraffes. At first my parents thought I named the toy "Tree" but actually I call all giraffes "trees." I've also corrupted many friends to calling them "trees."
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@ElicBxn (63194)
• United States
13 May 07
And they eat trees - well the leaves of trees anyway.
@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
13 May 07
That's funny...well,,..giraffes usually as tall as trees..right? LOL
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@gizmo528 (731)
• United States
12 May 07
I have several baby pictures laying around as well. My oldest keepsake would be a stuffed bear that I named Sugar. It has been with me since the day I was born basically. I still have it even though it has lost his nose. I plan on passing it down.
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
12 May 07
My "kangaroo" is missing all its fur! Used to be a bright fuzzy pink..
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@indiandevil (2410)
• Canada
13 May 07
Nothing now, I did however have a old trunk that my uncles mother gave me when I was born, it was covered in leather, and really nice. I had used it for a toy box, when I was little, as a teen I used it for my teen beat mags. Until I had my son I used it for a Stoage area. Then I passed it down to my son who used it as a toy box till recently. I had keep that trunk it perfect condition for twenty four years. When I left my ex I had taken it to my aunts. I had moved from my aunts in march but left some of my belongs there including the trunk. I figured they would be safe, even though noone was there because the house belonged to my family. Unfortunately last month someone set fire to the house and the trunk along with other valuable non replacable items were lost.
• Canada
14 May 07
Its still being investigated but we have an idea who did it
@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
13 May 07
OMG--that's terrible--what a loss! Did they ever find who set fire to the house??
• United States
12 May 07
I have a doll I got for Christmas when I was 7. She was a bride doll (in fact I never named her, just called her The Bride Doll) in a beautiful silk and lace gown. Now she is naked, her golden curls a nappy fuzz and she has ink on her face. Three of my granddaughters have played with her and now she is in storage.
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
12 May 07
That kind of reminds me of my Barbie dolls..got rid of them though years ago, but I bet they'd be worth something now!
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• United States
13 May 07
I have pictures of myself as a baby. I have a small stuffed teddy bear that I got when I was a baby when I was sick and in the hospital. I also have casts I had to wear as a baby to correct my club feet, and a pair of corrective shoes that were attatched to braces.
• United States
15 May 07
Well after having three operations on my feet before I turned 9 years old, I'm happy to say that it was corrected, and I can walk normal. I still have limitations, I can't stand or walk for long periods of time, but other then that and the scars things are good. I keep the items as a reminder of what I've been through. Like the old saying, what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. I don't see them as negative items, yeah they are associated with painful experiences as a child, but if it wasn't for those items, I wouldn't be walking. I owe who I am today to those casts and corrective shoes, to me they are very special.
@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
13 May 07
How are you now?? Just curious...At first I wondered why you want to keep something that must have been a painful experience for you as a child..but then..maybe to remind you of how you USED to be??and are no longer??
@cocobaby (300)
• United States
13 May 07
I have some pictures of myself as a baby. I used to have a baby book filled with things like some of my baby hair, my first birthday cards, a picture my brother drew for me, and some other things but someone stole it out of my mom's house.
@cocobaby (300)
• United States
13 May 07
It was one of my mom's ex husbands. He's a horrible person and did it to be mean.
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
13 May 07
Oh--that's terrible that someone stole that from you...why would they want to do that??
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@us2owls (1681)
• United States
13 May 07
Since I moved from the UK to the USA I didn't have very much from my childhood. The one thing I do have that I treasure is a solid gold ring that I got one year for my birthday. It has the initial P on it which is the initial of my first name. I treasure this ring because it was made for me by my great uncle who was a goldsmith.
@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
13 May 07
I used to have a gold ring too...have no idea what happened to it :-(
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@mugzy528 (800)
• United States
12 May 07
That would have to be My Old Nintendo..LOL It goes way way Back Have a Great Day/Night
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
13 May 07
would it have been one of the first Nintendos??
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@mugzy528 (800)
• United States
13 May 07
Yes it is But come to think of it the first one was Atari and I still have that plus all the Games..lol
@shinjiao (1457)
• China
13 May 07
Well,let me see...I still keep two item I have from my childhood.The first one is a piece of cloth with red flowers.My mama told me that this cloth was my sheet when I was a baby.This sheet is kept for my behavior--I cannot fall asleep if I find this cloth isn't nearby.So now the cloth is put on my bed so that I can fall asleep.:D Another item is a photo.This photo is important for me,it taken on the first hundredth day of my life.I smiled gentlely,no teeth in my mouth.This photo looks very funny.
@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
13 May 07
sounds like that cloth is your security blanket even now..right?
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@shinjiao (1457)
• China
14 May 07
Mmmmmmm,yes,it is my security blanket,but too small for me,now.:)
@redletha (64)
12 May 07
My rocking horse, my mum bought it for me when I was new born, it was way too big for me then ... She's a big believer in "she'll grow into it".
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
12 May 07
Are you still growing into it? LOL
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@Ravenladyj (22904)
• United States
13 May 07
I still have the teddy bear my foster mother had bought me for my very first Xmas not realizing that I'd not be with her becuase I was being adopted out...there is also the outfit I "came in" and a letter which last I saw were at my mothers but I dont know if she still has them....I have that teddy though and I cherish it a great deal ;-)
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@Ravenladyj (22904)
• United States
15 May 07
yea true enough...that is really special to me cause SHE (my foster mum) apparently had gotten quite attached to me even though i was an infant ya know (I was adopted out at 3 months old which explains why my foster mum thought Id be with her for Xmas) so I really cherish that bear LOL
@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
13 May 07
It seems a lot of people here have their childhood teddy bears ;-)
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@yogi85 (108)
• India
13 May 07
The oldest thing that i have from my childhood is just a broken piece of glass. But the reason it is there is quite interesting. Actually one day it happened that as i was sitting in my room the wall clock suddenly fell from its hanging and the glass cover over it broke into several pieces.while i was cleaning up the pieces i looked at this one piece which was very interesting as the whole piece has taken up the shape of a well defined Boot. I was really amazed and as a token i have always kept it with me. Strange but true !
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
13 May 07
Wow...that sounds so odd...I guess you consider it your little lucky talisman...no??
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@yogi85 (108)
• India
14 May 07
Yes i told you it might sound odd and yes ofcourse i consider it that way only.Lets see how much more time it remains with me, dont wanna loose it.
@rosie_123 (6113)
13 May 07
Ah well - I have Larry the Lamb, who was evidently bought in and laid on my pillow the day I was born, by my Mum's cousin. My Mum and her cousin are both gone now, but Larry still remains, despite having lost most of his stuffing! I also have my teady bear Arkasha, who was given to me in my first year of life, and still growls when you press his tummy:-))
@rosie_123 (6113)
13 May 07
LOL! "Kangy Roo" is cute:-)) And sorry to disappoint, but Arkasha isn't really that exotic - it is just the Russian pet form of the name Arkady, which is a very common male name in Russia and Belarussia - so it was just a bit like calling him "teddy" in Russian!!!!
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
13 May 07
Wow what an exotic name for your teddy bear! I just called my kangaroo toy "kangy roo"--real imaginative huh? LOL
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@hoghoney (3747)
• United States
13 May 07
when I was 5 years old my mom crocheted me and my sister a blanket and I still have it to this day. I also have a Donald Duck plate that my mom made from 1975 when she did cermeics. oh and I also have a piece of the silky edge of a blanket that I carried when I was a baby
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@hoghoney (3747)
• United States
14 May 07
yes it is thank you. she has been gone now for 10 years and there is just a few things that I have left from her
@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
13 May 07
that Donald Duck plate must be extra special since your mom made it then--right?
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@chloe9013 (532)
13 May 07
I have LOADS of photos as most people do, and i also have a cup and saucer thing made by royal dalton. you know, those things you get as a baby but are never allowed to use ^_^
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
13 May 07
Oh yes...you have Royal Dalton...there's a Steuben plate my mom got that was engraved wen I was born--that was never touched!!
• Malaysia
13 May 07
i do have a lot of photos when i was a baby, but i think the most "visible" thing is the small bolster that i have, which is the same age as me! and it's on my bed now and i sleep with it every night hahaha... ^_^
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@pyewacket (43903)
• United States
13 May 07
Still sleep with it huh?? LOL--maybe your version of a security blanket???
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• Malaysia
18 May 07
hehe yeah, i guess you can say that.. .