Your Favorite Material Items
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first formost, fishing tackle. then my play toys (tools)
have to mention toilet paper and a five gallon bucket, never go fishin without 'em.
i got a bicycle with solar panels in my spokes, like you do with playin' cards too. works pretty good too as long as i dont try to put the dam thing in reverse. come to think of it, no park or neutral either. may have to put the thing back in the shed after i get this cast off my foot.
have to mention toilet paper and a five gallon bucket, never go fishin without 'em.
i got a bicycle with solar panels in my spokes, like you do with playin' cards too. works pretty good too as long as i dont try to put the dam thing in reverse. come to think of it, no park or neutral either. may have to put the thing back in the shed after i get this cast off my foot.
Hmm, good question.
I think these things are pretty dear:
Accutron Eagle Chronograph - Wife gave this to me for our 25th wedding anniversary (now 31 yrs). I polish metal, so mine is fully polished stainless:
My '66 Triumph Bonneville bobber. This took me four years to rebuild, I took the cost-effective route, swap meet parts, etc.
A few guns. I've had this Ruger since I was 18 years old. My dad bought the Single Six at the same time, I now have both:
Mk II, nothing special, but a hoot to shoot
Single Six
My SP101, fully polished stainless. Actually the LL Bean "Flying Tigers" jacket it is sitting I've owned for 15 years and it's a pretty cherished item as well.
I recently sold my beloved 2002 Bonneville America, so the wife and I could enjoy a convertible. We bought this '79, so that's a new item, hopefully to be enjoyed for many years.
I think these things are pretty dear:
Accutron Eagle Chronograph - Wife gave this to me for our 25th wedding anniversary (now 31 yrs). I polish metal, so mine is fully polished stainless:
My '66 Triumph Bonneville bobber. This took me four years to rebuild, I took the cost-effective route, swap meet parts, etc.
A few guns. I've had this Ruger since I was 18 years old. My dad bought the Single Six at the same time, I now have both:
Mk II, nothing special, but a hoot to shoot
Single Six
My SP101, fully polished stainless. Actually the LL Bean "Flying Tigers" jacket it is sitting I've owned for 15 years and it's a pretty cherished item as well.
I recently sold my beloved 2002 Bonneville America, so the wife and I could enjoy a convertible. We bought this '79, so that's a new item, hopefully to be enjoyed for many years.
S'pose I'm another from the Carlin camp.
Not much if anything comes to mind with respect to material things. It's just stuff to me.
I do have a small fire safe with insurance docs, birth certificates and such. I'd make an attempt to hold on to it for practical reasons.
Emotional attachments.... nuthin!
Not much if anything comes to mind with respect to material things. It's just stuff to me.
I do have a small fire safe with insurance docs, birth certificates and such. I'd make an attempt to hold on to it for practical reasons.
Emotional attachments.... nuthin!
I moved from the New York to Sweden this year, and that kind of move helps you figure out what material things you really care about. I brought my pipes and tobaccos I knew would be hard to get here, an American Blu-Ray player (so I could still watch all the Blu-Rays/DVD's I've accumulated over the years), my laptop, iPod, and a bottle of rye whiskey (very hard to find and expensive here).
Shipped over the aforementioned Blu-Ray/DVD's and a few books, but everything else is in storage in the U.S.
Shipped over the aforementioned Blu-Ray/DVD's and a few books, but everything else is in storage in the U.S.
We splurged a little last week, while on vacation and added this to the foyer. It cut into our vacation allowance, keeping us grounded but I hope to have it a long time and pass along eventually. It is a 1985 Ridgeway clock, which I've learned is a pretty decent clock make (oldest continual maker of Grandfather clocks in the US). We could have never afforded a new clock like this, but got it for a fraction of the cost of new at an antique/collectibles store owned by a friend. It was a little nerve wracking taking the weights and pendulum off and loading it into the back of our truck, but we got her home safe and setup again without drama. The shop that sold it orginally in '85 is coming over on Thursday to oil the movement and give it a tuneup, but so far it chimes well but runs a little slow. It is an unusual corner-style clock, which drew our attention in the first place.
Hey, cool thread! I've read it all and you guys have some awesome stuff. As the OP wanted 'material items,' I will leave out the wife, dogs & cats that are all assumed to be in the list of irreplaceable items.
1. 1973 Gillanders & Macleod bagpipes that were handed down to me from a family member. And my sheet music collection, some of which is no longer in print.
2. 1930 Royal portable typewriter, which still works and I still use, that my wife snagged for me.
3. Canon AE-1 camera that I inherited from my grandfather...not particularly valuable, but it still takes great pictures and it has sentimental value.
4. My small library of architectural, construction & engineering handbooks from the late 19th and early 20th century that were given to me by a retiring colleague.
5. A small plastic Peter Rabbit cup that my grandma bought for me when I was a baby.
...I haven't been smoking pipes long enough to have any particularly sentimental or valuable ones....
1. 1973 Gillanders & Macleod bagpipes that were handed down to me from a family member. And my sheet music collection, some of which is no longer in print.
2. 1930 Royal portable typewriter, which still works and I still use, that my wife snagged for me.
3. Canon AE-1 camera that I inherited from my grandfather...not particularly valuable, but it still takes great pictures and it has sentimental value.
4. My small library of architectural, construction & engineering handbooks from the late 19th and early 20th century that were given to me by a retiring colleague.
5. A small plastic Peter Rabbit cup that my grandma bought for me when I was a baby.
...I haven't been smoking pipes long enough to have any particularly sentimental or valuable ones....
Call me sentimental:
1. Grandfather's Dali Lithiograph given to him by a English WWII buddy, given to me by my grandmother.
2. Other grandfather's grandmother's hand-millstone.
3. Small simple wooden table built by 3x great grandfather on the family farm which I use as a writing desk--which incidentally, will one day return with me to said farm which my family has occupied since the middle part of the 18th c.
1. Grandfather's Dali Lithiograph given to him by a English WWII buddy, given to me by my grandmother.
2. Other grandfather's grandmother's hand-millstone.
3. Small simple wooden table built by 3x great grandfather on the family farm which I use as a writing desk--which incidentally, will one day return with me to said farm which my family has occupied since the middle part of the 18th c.
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