what is your favourite possession?

@Roseo8 (2947)
India
February 13, 2009 12:23am CST
Do you possess any thing which may or may not be valuable ,but which you always cherish because of sentimental reasons even thougb people may ridicule you for that.For example my uncle has a fiat car which he hardly drives.It is very old and in a run down condition,and even though people often tease him about it,he says he will not sell it or replace it because it is his first car.And yes you guessed right ,he uses the bus to travel......,while the car occupies the pride of place in the car porch....
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@dpk262006 (58675)
• Delhi, India
13 Feb 09
Let your Uncle be happy with his Fiat Car...........LOL! I do not prefer to keep any such kind of possessions, after all material goods have their life and everything comes to an end. We need to face the reality that we cannot get attached to material goods forever, one day they will become nought. I have some old letters, which I exchanged with my friends and relatives when I was studying. I have not destroyed those letters and sometimes glance through those letters to revive the old memories.
@dpk262006 (58675)
• Delhi, India
13 Feb 09
Some old letter and greeting cards can be kept safely for refreshing faded memories. However, my better half has no interest in those letters because they are from my relatieves and friends.
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@Roseo8 (2947)
• India
13 Feb 09
Yes Dpk some people,especially our better halfs are often insensitive to our sentiments ....sigh....
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@Roseo8 (2947)
• India
13 Feb 09
yes I guess so dpk.......My uncle is entitled to his happiness........Well see,you say you are not attached to material things,but you also reveal your attachement to some precious old letters.....ha..ha...Dpk...yes I too have preserved old greeting cards from friends and relatives and its fun to go through them and recollect those happpy times...thanks for sharing.....
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• India
20 Feb 09
I gave this a hard thought Rose and really I cant find anything to which I am particularly attached. I like all my things but am not very fond of them. Maybe I am careless, maybe I don’t value them properly, but really there is not such thing which is invaluable to me.
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• India
24 Feb 09
Oh well, now that you say of it I think it would be a bundle of chits of paper. Back in those days, we were so poor that we did not have a telephone at home. Both hubby and me would go to work at different times and the one who left later, would scrawl little messages on chits of paper about when s/he would return in the evening and other candy-floss things…we were newly married and very much in love and coming home and finding that little chit was a wonderful feeling. I have kept all of them in a bag at the back of the cupboard…those are precious and yes…a small hand-written note from my son saying ‘you are a donkey mummum…’ I have pasted it on the cupboard with the date on it
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@Roseo8 (2947)
• India
23 Feb 09
Hi Sudipta,well its strange you cannot think of any valuable possession which you cherish.....come on put on your thinking cap and think of your precious possessions...some greeting cards,some pics,perhaps some old childhood toys or even the first love letter you got or some thing which belong to your parents or grand parents?.......I am waiting.....
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@Roseo8 (2947)
• India
24 Feb 09
...see sudipta,I told you so........ha,ha,I like the bit about your son leaving a note and you cherishing it........any way thanks for sharing your secrets with me.......ha..ha.....
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@faith210 (11224)
• Philippines
24 Feb 09
Hi Roseo8! My husband own a Volkswagen beetle and I think that car was manufactured in the sixties or seventies. haha..He loves it very much and he was teased about it all the time. However, he sold it to a collector of vintage cars a few years ago because we need some money at that time. And until this day, he always think about his old beetle and told me that if he will have enough money, he will buy another beetle again. Take care and blessings my friend! lovelots..faith
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@Roseo8 (2947)
• India
18 May 09
Hi Faith......yes Volswagon is a favourite of car lovers even today,and ny father too had one ,some years ago.Any way its sad your hubby had to sell it,and I do hope he will be able to buy one soon.....Good luck to him.....
@mayka123 (16584)
• India
13 Feb 09
My prized possession is my wristwatch that was gifted by a friend a couple of years ago. It is always on my wrist and I refuse to wear another watch even though my daughter sometimes asks me to wear the other watch. My sister was after me recently to take advantage of an exchange offer recently and get a new watch but I refuse to do that!
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@Roseo8 (2947)
• India
13 Feb 09
Hi Mayka....Yes sometimes its difficult for me too to part with my precious possessions too even if I am tempeted with a new piece as replacement....And coming to watches I have currently two of them ,one gifted by my hubby and the other by my son.So when ever I am going out with my hubby I wear the one he gave me,and when going out with my son I wear his gift.ha..ha.. This way I try not to hurt their feelings.....
@mayka123 (16584)
• India
18 Feb 09
So you are keeping your bread buttered on both sides....and making sure your hands are clean too!
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@Roseo8 (2947)
• India
20 Feb 09
well mayka how else can I survive dear.........
@karubod (603)
• India
21 Feb 09
Well possession may be persons also ,so it is my parents and family..... ....
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@Roseo8 (2947)
• India
23 Feb 09
Hello karubod,yes you are right,and its nice to see that u r very attached to your family.........Good luck to you and your family...
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@bubbletush (1332)
• Philippines
21 Feb 09
i value the two dear daniel (the counterpart of hello kitty) stuffed toys which my then boyfriend now husband gave me in 1999. The sanrio dolls were a hit that time (sold by McDonald's) and he searched at every McDonald's just to be able to give me those dolls because it is always out of stock. It's the effort he exerted just to give me what he knows would make me happy because I am such a fan of sanrio stuff.
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@Roseo8 (2947)
• India
24 Feb 09
yes bubble I can imagine how much you cherish the stuffed toys your hubby gifted you.......Thanks for sharing,happy mylotting to you........
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@kalav56 (11464)
• India
13 Feb 09
Yes Rose.I do have two sarees of mine that I cherish though they are not in a fit condition to wear.One is a green silk saree which I wore when my husband came to see me first, and the second one is one of my wedding sarees bought by my in-laws.It has plenty of silver zari in it but the borders are worn out; but I don't feel like giving it away in exchange of silver or money equivalent to that.I don't have the heart to part with these two. Ah!Then there is one more simple cotton saree bought by my friend.It is more than 8 years since she bought it for me.She was a tenant in our house and later, shifted to her own place.We were very thick friends and still are, though we now can talk only by phone on the rare occasion for exchanging greetings on a wedding anniversary or birthday.I rarely wear this because if I wear it frequently then it will tear.The same friend gave me one stainless steel tumbler, in which I drink tea every day.There is another stainless steel vessel bought by another close friend [a very special childhood friend]and I store milk in this everyday.It holds exactly 1 litre of milk and so this is excusively used for this.I feel great pleasure recalling them today.Thanks.
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@kalav56 (11464)
• India
20 Feb 09
Not really actually. My mother, though, old is ,not at all sentimental about anything.Probably the big loss she faced in her life destroyed all sentiments, because she always says that everything is so transient and why be sentimental about objects.I lost my only brother when he was 17 and that too in an accident.Soem men also get senmtimental about things.I guess it all depends on the level of emotional attachment they have in their nature.
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@Roseo8 (2947)
• India
21 Feb 09
Yes Kalav,you are right.......I agree....
@Roseo8 (2947)
• India
16 Feb 09
Hello dear.....Well infact I hardly thought of my closet while starting this discussion......But now that you have brought it up,I too have many sarees and churidars in my cupboard which I hardly wear,but which I will not dream of parting because they all hold some precious memories for me.Its not that we are being materialistic,but just sentimental,and I think we women are more sentimental than our better halves...........
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@aseretdd (13730)
• Philippines
15 Feb 09
Wow... that is very odd of your uncle... but my boss has a lot of home appliances that are like 50 years old... and she is still using them... she can afford to buy new and nicer ones... but she refuse... In my case... my favorite possession is my bed... it is made of wood... and it is like the very first thing that i bought for myself... and if i could have taken it abroad with me years ago... i would have...
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@Roseo8 (2947)
• India
16 Feb 09
Hello aseretdd,Well in the olden days when we bought our things ,especially household items ,we always did that with a long term view.It is only recently that exchange offers are becoming popular and people start replacing their two or three year old used items with new ones.And Yes I can imagine how much you cherish your bed that you bought for yourself,probably from your own savings........Thanks for sharing and happy mylotting to you.....
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@shaggin (71664)
• United States
14 Feb 09
My favorite possession doesnt have anything to do with sentimentality it is just something that I really love. I havent had it that long though so I am still working on the quirks with it. It is my digital camera. Its a panasonic lumix. I had a model before this one and I adored it but I let my daughter use it and she dropped it and broke it so I had to buy anyone one. I liked the ease of use that came with the other one I had but this model is for slightly more advanced camera users. I rarely go a day without taking at least one picture so I would be lost without this camera. I bought it on ebay. It was a great deal and I was so happy to get it! I absolutely love my camera! I guess I'm a little camera crazy:)
@Roseo8 (2947)
• India
22 Feb 09
ha..ha..shaggin ,I have a couple of friends who are crazy about their camera and phtography.Well its sad your daughter broke your previous camera.........I hope you have better luck and a great time with this camera.....
@cupid74 (11388)
• Pakistan
13 Feb 09
Hi dear i dont think i have any such possession i try to associate with people not with things, they are more important to me Take care
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@mayka123 (16584)
• India
13 Feb 09
Cupid, I think your most prized possession would be the computer.........because you cannot remain away from the computer all day!
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@Roseo8 (2947)
• India
13 Feb 09
You may be right Mayka....And I am sure he has pics and other things in his possession which he cherishes,but if he doesnt want to share with us,let us leave him alone..............Ok Cupid we will not pester you any more.You are entitled to your privacy,is it not Mayka........
@Roseo8 (2947)
• India
13 Feb 09
You mean cupid you dont have a single possession,.......some precious toys,or the first bat your bro gave you or the perfume your wife gave you on your honeymoon....any thing like that,which you cherish and hold close to your heart....Or is it that you dont want to share such personal things with your friends...........Ok suit youtself........
@Sreekala (34312)
• India
13 Feb 09
Hi Rose, I don't think I have possessed any such material. But my nature is little bit close to your uncle's nature. When I use something I have developed a close relation with the same and if I get a substitute, good and costly than the old one then also I felt difficulty to give up the old one. (lol) Old is Gold. What about you, you said about your uncle only. Do you possess any particular things like your Uncle?
@dpk262006 (58675)
• Delhi, India
13 Feb 09
Rose - Does your transister still works...!!
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@Roseo8 (2947)
• India
13 Feb 09
Come now sree...I am sure you have in your possession some items which you will not liek to part come what may.....Well I have many precious items with me which I treasure and which I will not part with......Old pictures,and post cards,and cassettes,stuff like that....Infact I had a transistor which my father bought for me when I passed my 10th with flying colours.after many years of usage,it finally could play only one malayalam station.My hubby and sons used to tease me about the junk that I was using,but I gave no heed to their teasing,and it always occupied a pride of place in my living room.Finally my elder son bought me a new transistor with his salary,and that is when I yielded and replaced my old transistor with the new one he gave me..
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@Roseo8 (2947)
• India
13 Feb 09
No Dpk...Unfortunately one fine day it stopped emitting any sounds ,and constant banging on it did not produce the usual response....and I had to finally throw it away....sigh........
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@lynnemg (4529)
• United States
14 Feb 09
I have a few things. First, I have my very first teddy bear. The ers are half ripped off, it is missing one eye, and it has been burned, but I still have it and I cherish it very much. Second, I have the only stuufed animal that my son had before he passed away. It is very sentimental to me because with it in the house, I just feel that he is with me always. Third, I have a homemade card that my husband made for me on the first anniversary of the day we began dating. It means a lot to me because he took the time to make it for me.
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@Roseo8 (2947)
• India
22 Feb 09
hello lynnmg,like you I too have preserved my first teddy .well I am sorry about your son,I hope god gives you strength to face the loss of your son,and to cherish your happy moments with him................
• Philippines
13 Feb 09
my wallet.. hehehehe its very important.. hehehe especially whats in it.. :) peace!
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@Roseo8 (2947)
• India
21 Feb 09
yes I can imagine trendy....
• Philippines
25 Feb 09
lolz! is it one of your possessions also? hehehe
@Canellita (12029)
• United States
7 Mar 09
I am not sure what my favorite possession is. I think it would have to either be my car or my computer. I depend on both of them daily for different reasons and I would probably be more lost without my computer than my car since I could still get around town via rides from friends, my bicycle and public transportation if I absolutely had to (though I hope I won't).
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@Roseo8 (2947)
• India
18 May 09
ha..ha.... alright canellita,there is no restriction here.....you can definitely name more than one item as your favourite possession.......And its eveident you will be lost without your car or your computer..........Good luck I hope you will never have to part with either of them.......
• Philippines
13 Feb 09
I would have to say this laptop of mine is one of my favorite possessions currently, but I have so many like a bookmark, a paper with a blood stain (I know it's odd), and candy wrappers (another odd one). I like my laptop 'cause it was given to me as a gift by my aunt and uncle who were like my parents, and this one is really helpful for me 'cause I use this for work.
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@Roseo8 (2947)
• India
21 Feb 09
well I dont think your possessions are odd dutchess......thanks for sharing....
@sid556 (30960)
• United States
13 Feb 09
I have a bathrobe that was my dad's. I snagged it when he passed away along with a stuffed garfield toy that I'd bought him a month previous. My brothers kind of picked on me as he certainly had things of much greater monetary value. I cherish it and wear it often. It's a bit big but comfy and well, just makes me think of him. After my mom passed last year, my brother came knocking on my door. He'd been going thru her belongings. He presented me with her bathrobe,saying "I'm surprised you didn't smuggle this out but I'm sure you want it. he also gave me her rosary beads and a couple of other little tokens.
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@Roseo8 (2947)
• India
22 Feb 09
well Sid.....I am deeply moved on reading about your possessions.......I know how much your parents belongings will mean to you and what comfort and closeness they can give.I pity your brother who settled for more "monetary valuable items"....Perhaps he doesnt realise that there are some things that money cannot buy.....Thnaks for sharing your views.....
@gracie04 (4549)
• Philippines
13 Feb 09
Yes.. my favorite possession would be my digital camera(Canon Ixus).. It was an anniversary gift from my hubby.. i can't wait to use it later on our trip to Boracay! wuhoo!
@Roseo8 (2947)
• India
22 Feb 09
hello gracie that's great...Let me wish you a happy trip in advance.....
@moneymommy (3418)
• United States
13 Feb 09
I am very sentimental and I will save everything and I mean everything. I have match boxes from resturants,napkins,love letters,articles,written letters,every card everyone ever sent me,you name it I got it lol.
@Roseo8 (2947)
• India
22 Feb 09
Ha..ha..I can imagine friend.....
@Goblox (22)
• United States
13 Feb 09
I have lost a few people that were very close to me. I hold on to little things that remind me of them, old birthday cards from grandparents, a stuffed animal that was my brothers, and a couple of my best friend's favorite movies.
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@Roseo8 (2947)
• India
22 Feb 09
yes goblox,I can imagine how much such belongings of your loved ones who have left you,would mean to you ...thanks for sharing....
• United States
13 Feb 09
I would have to say that my most valued possesion would be the first car that i ever bought myself. I had to save my money for YEARS before i could afford it, and i will never let it go. it tought me many lessons, and thats why it means so much to me.
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@Roseo8 (2947)
• India
22 Feb 09
Yes I can understand how precious your car must be...Good luck to you.........