What do you nick-nacks say about you ?

NanKate Sun 22-Mar-20 15:34:41

On the radio on Tuesday at 4.00pm there is a programme called ‘The Hidden History of the Mantlepiece’.

My Mantlepiece has on it

A small silver elephant
A soapstone elephant
2 small glass ornaments
An American pottery vase with 4 black horses on it.
An old American clock with a glass front with a partridge on it
A much loved family teddy in a bow-tie

What’s on yours if you have a Mantlepiece ?

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Kartush Tue 24-Mar-20 10:57:42

I also do not have a mantle but on the dresser in the hallway I have 2 fancy oil lamps, a crochet doily, 6 purple bottles with lights in them, candles, a container of toothpicks and 3 dragons
So I am not sure what that says about me

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Quizzer Tue 24-Mar-20 10:53:16

Vase from Russia, soapstone figurine from china, wooden elephant carving from India, memories of our travels. Plus a clock the kids gave us for our silver wedding - next year it's golden!

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Oopsadaisy3 Tue 24-Mar-20 09:02:34

Oh oops!

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BlueSapphire Tue 24-Mar-20 08:32:03

Not aimed at you Oopsadaisy3! Oops as in oops I forgot something!

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Hetty58 Mon 23-Mar-20 23:40:55

Three potted plants, a Mother's Day card, a carved wooden box with various useful bits and pieces in it (nail clippers, emery boards, tweezers etc.) - and a lovely bronze stag ornament that I kept out after Christmas.

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LightAmber Mon 23-Mar-20 23:33:00

Cat ornament, bottle clock, Rubik puzzle, Chinese puzzle box, 2 Whitby lucky ducks, 3 photos in frames.

~~and a whole lot of dust~~ blush

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Missfoodlove Mon 23-Mar-20 23:28:16

Don’t know what it says really, I just love antiques and anything beautiful.

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ElaineI Mon 23-Mar-20 23:07:14

A metronome, 2 glass Wedgewood candlestick holders, 2 sitting cats, clock, ceramic silver model of DH holding DGS1's hand, 2 Mother's Day cards (DS self isolating with symptoms), ornament of grandparents with male and female child gazing at them.
Hearth - toy garage and Little Tykes farm.

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Oopsadaisy3 Mon 23-Mar-20 22:53:18

Who? Me ? What carriage clock blue

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BlueSapphire Mon 23-Mar-20 13:20:43

Oops, forgot the carriage clock!

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Witzend Mon 23-Mar-20 13:19:37

Er, I must confess that my lack of a lot of knick knacks as such just says I’m a thoroughly lazy baggage when it comes to dusting!
Quite a few framed photos of dds and Gdcs, though. And one of our old dog on her very last day with us. ?

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BlueSapphire Mon 23-Mar-20 13:18:47

Here's mine.
Daffs in a vase.
Dartington glass candlestick with candle.
3 Mothering Sunday cards
Stained glass angel made for me by a friend.
Art Deco style vase
Behind one of the cards is a Greek icon I bought on holiday in Crete.

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shysal Mon 23-Mar-20 12:06:57

I have no mantelpiece but my dresser holds many GC photos, candles, Mothers Day cards, a glass dish of polished pebbles, a Sellotape dispenser and a camera. Hidden behind theses items are spare spectacles, a pocket dictionary and a calculator. I also have several weeks worth of dust. Even though staying inside most of the time I still CBA to do housework. blush

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Dinahmo Mon 23-Mar-20 11:16:52

Modern house so no mantelpieces. Elsewhere, hundreds of pots and dozens of pictures. No photos but about 20 albums filled with photos from the last 50 years of holidays and one with happy snaps and pets present and former. My OH prints the photos and then laminates them for the albums. One day, when remembering becomes more difficult, I'll still have them to look at.

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Oopsadaisy3 Mon 23-Mar-20 11:05:59

My nick nacks say that I must love dusting because there are so many of them.

I don’t.

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M0nica Mon 23-Mar-20 11:04:29

Our only mantelpiece isn't in the living room. It is in the study, so its contents reflect that.

Airfix model of HMS Belfast, about a dozen old pottery and glass bottles, most retrieved from the bottom of the Thames or dug up in the garden.. cartoon portraits of DH and I, all those little tiny ornaments, some joky, that family give one.

Not your normal mantelpiece collection but not a living room mantelpiece either.

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annodomini Mon 23-Mar-20 09:43:26

I don't go in for nick-knacks though there was a time when I had cats and people persisted in giving me cat ornaments. Since my poor cats have been deceased for over 20 years, I have gradually given the said ornaments to charity shops. I have my granny's silver plated teapot and sugar bowl. Perhaps my heirs will either take them or sell them.

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eazybee Mon 23-Mar-20 09:43:24

To answer the original question'what do your nick-nacks say about you?':-
old, tough, grey and battered.

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ninathenana Mon 23-Mar-20 08:45:21

fatgran some lovely objects there. Especially the clock and the figure in the last pic.

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ninathenana Mon 23-Mar-20 08:40:45

A photo of GSx2 and an art deco bronze figure of a lady.

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grannypiper Mon 23-Mar-20 08:37:45

A soldier figurine either side and a clock in the middle, that is all there is supposed to be but Dh has added 2 empty cartridge shells, his car keys and a £20 note that is going into my purse

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Greyduster Mon 23-Mar-20 08:30:40

This is mine. The three blue and white plates are of no value but I am very fond of them and have had them a long time. The Waterford crystal clock was given to us by a friend, now sadly passed away, the photo is of my lovely late sister with toddler DD, and the Eiffel Tower was brought back from Paris by GS on a school trip and before Christmas, when he was over, he asked where it was, so I put it up there. It flashes different colours, and when he comes over, we have to have it on! It must have everlasting batteries! Now, with everything that is going on, and not being able to see him, it will become a little beacon for us.

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LullyDully Mon 23-Mar-20 08:07:20

Modern house, no mantelpiece as such.

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fatgran57 Mon 23-Mar-20 05:34:22