What’s a household item that reminds you of your grandma’s house?

Calendargirl

Never knew either grandma, so no memories.

Ditto.
Neither did my parents ever meet each other's parents or go to the other's home place.

I would still, have a glass dish that invariably appeared at teatime at my paternal GM’s house - full of orange jelly with mandarin oranges in.
Only dh broke it. 🤬
It was years ago and I still haven’t quite forgiven him.
That dish was the only thing I wanted from DM’s house when she died in the late 70s. Her teas were so memorable - besides the jelly, lots of things we never had at home, like Dairylea triangles and Wagon Wheels.

A large tablet of red Lifebuoy soap. Granny in Lismore (an island near Oban) had no running water. In fact I was sent with a pail to collect some from a random pipe sticking out of a grassy bank. Granny had a black range with a sooty kettle constantly simmering. When she washed her hair in an enamel bowl out came the Lifebuoy, so no chance of any germs surviving.

Cossy and Orea all the budgies I knew, and there were quite a few, were called Joey. Some of them must have been girls by the law of averages.

They were blue or green and lived solitary lives in little cages. One or two of the cleverer ones could say "Who's a pretty boy then?"

Oreo

Everyone used to have a budgie called Billy or Petey.

We had a blue budgie called Joey!

My mother has some of my paternal grandmother's dishes. The ones that remind me the most of Grandma's house are some of the drinking glasses and the small glass red and white containers that Grandma used to hold butter and honey.

I inherited an Edwardian green glass fishbowl and glass fishes with floats from my nanna, I chose it because it used to fascinate me as a child. It needs repairing, so it’s in a cupboard, I must see if I can get it sorted.

A pair of tiny brass slippers. They were always on the mantlepiece and adorn mine now,
From my great grandmother's and great grandfather's house I have a large brass pot with a handle that had a pointed bag suspended over it and jam dripping through it. I can still smell the bread baking and the jam smell in their house.

A mangle in the garden

Sadly I never had Grandparents. Hope my GC have happy memories of me .

I guess it would have to be my house, because it was my paternal grandmother's when I was very young. I lived in one of the flats downstairs with my parents, and my maternal grandparents lived in the other flat. When my grandmother died, my parents and I moved upstairs.

Everyone used to have a budgie called Billy or Petey.

Iam64

I have a number of those little china clusters of flowers in tiny vases, a pot budgie and an embroidered table cloth from paternal grannie. Mums mum gave me a dainty fur short scarf thing in the 1960’s to wear with maternal grandpa ‘s leather Ww 1 waistcoat (happy hippy days). Gran referred to the fur as “my bit of skunk”

Aaah! The innocence of old age😄

I have a number of those little china clusters of flowers in tiny vases, a pot budgie and an embroidered table cloth from paternal grannie. Mums mum gave me a dainty fur short scarf thing in the 1960’s to wear with maternal grandpa ‘s leather Ww 1 waistcoat (happy hippy days). Gran referred to the fur as “my bit of skunk”

Fallingstar

Brass ornaments that she made myself and my sister polish, our younger brother was instead allowed to play.
Have never liked brass since.

Are we sisters?😁

Carpet sweeper

Her jam making pot. It went to my mum and now I have it. It might go to my daughter, although she doesn't like jam. My nan was a formidable cook and baker as was mum and it reminds me of them both.

Randomly…….sodium percarbonate, more commonly known as green bleach……I use it to remove stains on tea towels, white socks, inside mugs etc. it has to be dissolved in boiling water and smells just like Oxydol washing powder that GM used all the time.

Those lustre cups from back in the 60s in an oyster colour. Grannie had a full tea set.
I saw some in tkmaxx a while back only in a pink colour. Really took me back to my childhood.

Clocks, several dinner services and tea sets, jewellery along with ornaments from both Grannies.

This thread is making me sad. When my Nana and Pop died I really wanted the Grandfather clock that I used to watch while sitting on the stairs My parents said I could not have it it had a moon face and a really melodic chime I haven’t thought about it for quite a while till now

Brass ornaments that she made myself and my sister polish, our younger brother was instead allowed to play.
Have never liked brass since.

I have my mother’s (chipped) little blackbird designed to go in the middle of a pie to let steam out. It came from my Granny’s house, along with my wooden rolling pin.

As with kittylester. It is a clock - a French ornate mantel piece clock.

I have a lot of things my maternal grand mother owned. She as aWW1 widow her income was tiny but she had a discerning eye and bought beautiful things that were damaged. I have a her dining table, actually a library table, pictures and so on.

We are a family where every generation including my 19 year old DGD love old houses and antiques and we swap furniture like other families swap clothes. Both the clock and table passed first toone of my aunts, who had it for 40 plus years, before it came to me. She had both clock and table restored and repaired. Now I have them and they will probably stay in the family when I go.

A pottery biscuit barrel from my paternal grandmothers home, a constant as a child and in my young adult life. Asked if there was anything I wanted after her death I opted for it. I also have bits and pieces of no monetary value she gave me during her lifetime, all precious to her. They were all non negotiable when major downsizing happened. I’ll never part with them.