What's your most treasured possession?

It was the silver badge I got when I qualified as a nurse but that went when my jewellery box was pinched in a burglary years ago so I don't have a treasured possession now just things and they can go if they need to.

It's a very chipped little bowl that my father used to put his pills in. I put my pills in it now.

My most treasured possessions are not "things"! For that reason I hope I will always have them.

Teetime, I am similar to you. The few little bits of jewellery that have been passed to me I have already handed on - with the instructions that they can be kept or sold. Once I have made the decision to pass them on I can easily detach myself emotionally from them.
We recently 'rescued' a keepsake from a family home that had been passed out of the family that is of no great value but was very much valued by its original owner (my Grandma). It was more about knowing she would have been distraught by its loss if she had known about it that provoked us to do an intervention.

Fond memories prompted by photographs and 'living' memories are far more important to us. Passing on the stories of those who loved us in the past is really the only thing worth doing.

I lost my engagement ring in a burglary too Lilygran. I had taken it off of my fat fingers when I was pregnant. It was replaced through insurance. I don't have any really irreplaceable possessions, just things like Teetime

It's the people in my life that I treasure the most.

A gold sovereign that my Grandma left me. It's not the sovereign itself, but the association with her.

We've got/had a couple of gold sovereigns. DH put them in a roof space cupboard. I'm pretty sure they will have fallen down into the wall cavity by now. And we have had cavity wall insulation since then.

Never mind. [mind]

!!! I meant

I need my lunch.

Want to borrow a sledgehammer, jingl?

No way. Bloody things can stay there.

'scuse my french

My passport, so expensive to renew from here I would need some valuable keepsakes to sell to replace it.

I have nothing but 21 silver threepenny pieces given to me by my in-laws when I 'came of age'.

Childrens' little play school pictures, and their baby teeth. Sentimental old fool !

It used to be a small heart, made out of brass, that hubby made for me when we were "courting", with both our sets of initials on it. Unfortunately it was lost during a house move over 30 years ago, how, I don`t know, because it was always in my purse.

My photographs.

My driving licence.

My photos. Even then it wouldn't worry me desperately. I am not a possessions person, even though I like nice things.

I have quite a few things that have been given to me, and occasionally wish a nice burglar would come and relieve me of them. It took me years to work out that, if MiL treasured them so much, why wasn't she giving them house room?

A small blue and white knitted rabbit - my baby daughter's favourite toy which was in her cot when she died. It sits on my bedside unit with two photos of her and is kissed goodnight.

My collection of note books which I started in my teens, full of favourite bits of poetry, quotations, loved bits of literature, etc. Still being added to.

So many, but I think photographs must be No.1 as they evoke so many happy memories

chocolatepudding x

Photographs. That is it really.
I wouldnt like to lose my wedding rings, but it wouldnt be all the world.

It seem to me that, may be because we all on the whole have more things, that things in themselves have less emotional value than they used to?

Even the photographs. If I lost them all, others have photos that could fill most of the gaps.

chocolatepudding