What do you own from another life?

My moves have been such that I have nothing, material from the past, (my first wife saw to that) but many fine memories.

I sometimes think the old things were made so much better than what's manufactured today. I don't know if this qualifies, but it is from another "era" I still have some things that belonged to my great-grandmother...her all metal egg beater that must be at least 40 years old..it's whipped up many a homemade whipped cream...then I still have these two pewter spoons with porcelain handles...God knows how old they are as I was told that they belonged to my great-grandmother's brother's wife who came from a very old Dutch family (they settled in NY area in 1659)--and believe me they almost look that old...LOL--I don't use them though but have them on display. I even USED to have a vegetable peeler of my great-grandmother's...best one I've ever had in my life...sadly somehow it went missing years ago (my mother had an odd habit of accidentally throwing things out)--never been able to find one since that worked as well.

I guess my washer and dryer are about...oh......14 yrs old or so. My fridge may be a bit younger than that. They all still work fine. My washer lid is rusted out on one corner, but still closes just fine. LOL!

Paula-

The only piece left from former lives is my baby outfit. It was crocheted for my mother when she was little girl, I wore it, all of my girl's wore it, and our little one is almost ready to wear it.

When I left my first marriage I lost everything I owned, save what I could carry out in an overnight bag with the police. I then lost everything a year later in a fire that occured in the apartment above me. Everything of mine was ruined from the water. Then when I moved to take my first teaching post, after two years of rebuilding my life, I lost everything because I was not old enough to rent a U-Haul truck on my own, and all I had was a tiny four door clunker that ended up breaking down three times before I made it to Arizona.

I'm building up things in this life, which is nice. Now, we do have a few items we found precariously in our hallway. When people move out they tend to leave their items in one area for anyone to take if they so wish. If not maintenance takes them to the trash can. Well, one day we found our large Altar sitting there. It's beautiful wood and only needs a few new door knob pieces but it works wonderfully for all our Buddha and Shiva. Then a few weeks ago we saw a small table sitting there to work for my personal altar. I've been wanting a meditation altar but awaiting funds and there was this little perfect table. It only needed the legs re-guild with some wood glue (Saturday project for me) and now it works wonderfully.

Namaste-Anora

hi paula here its my old desk I took with me. I bought it about 15 years ago when I moved into my first apartment cause I have always wanted that type of desk and now I got me one. We carefully took it here when I relocated to get married. Its still made of massive wood and I would not trade it for anything else in this world.

Let's see. I am not married so I would use my parent's things which we are still using.

I think we are still using 20 years old pressure cooker now. We have a bed which was gifted to my mum by her mum in her marriage. Till last year we had our TV bought in 1984(yes, we were not using it but it was with us).

I think rest of them are just 5-6 years old or so!

hiya Paula

It's quite disturbing I can't actually see or think of anything old I have in my house! Am I one of these 'get everything new' kind of people? I do give a lot away if I find I'm not using it though and one such thing was a mistsubishi portable t.v. that I gave to my daughter when she left home. I got it from my sister when my daughter was just a baby and have no idea how long my sis had it, but I had it for 18 years! Good going for a t.v. aih?

Alice