Have you kept a favourite possession from your childhood?

[Miss Chicken]

A teddy or another soft toy, a car, legos, a favourite book?

I still own a book ‘The Blue Elephant’ by Peter Thornhill. I loved this book as a child but I have never meet anyone else who remembers it. It is about little elephant, called Tum Tum who comes across a very blue bird. Tum Tum asks the bird why it is so blue and the bird tells him that he flew high up in the sky until he got covered in its blueness. So Tum Tum decides to climb the tallest mountain in Africa so he can reach the blueness of the sky.

For many years I kept my favourite teddy. As an adult I kept this teddy on top of my wardrobe until one day my 6 year old son took the teddy off my wardrobe and cut it in into about 100 bits. He said he did this because I wouldn’t let him play with my teddy

So folks, tell us about what you have kept from your childhood.

 

[Tosk]

The majority of my childhood possessions consists of a small box of Star Wars figures I was able to accumulate via birthdays and Christmases, and a large hardcover book of old school fairy tales. I also have a small collection of novels and movie novelizations that I got between the ages of 12 and 15. (At least one of them still has the price sticker on it. $1.50!!)

 

[HIjol]

I have too many to mention (and I just turned 67!!!) but there are some books (Choo Choo and The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton, to name a couple) and many ‘60s Star Trek things.
Great Thread Idea, @Miss Chicken!!!

 

[auntiehill]

I have a couple of teddy bears from childhood (in boxes and bags, but I still have them) and I also kept a few of my childhood books--the ones that were in good shape and had lovely artwork.

 

[DEWLine]

Oh HELL yes. Too many things, it can be argued.

 

[Oddish]

I have two stuffed toys, a giraffe that's incredibly faded and a purple creature of indeterminate species, had both since I was a year old. Plus, several handheld 80's era video games, and some furniture my parents bought me when I was 12 or 13. And a bunch of books.

 

[Gary Mitchell]

I still have my Space: 1999 Eagle playset. Unfortunately it's missing the figures and all of the interior little parts but ir still looks cool on the outside.

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[Rowdy Roddy McDowall]

I still have my Space: 1999 Eagle playset. Unfortunately it's missing the figures and all of the interior little parts but ir still looks cool on the outside.

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If you've got a Helena Russell action figure I'd wager it's more animated than its real-life counterpart.....

My most favorite was a 1970s blue-white-dusted Magic Window. Eight years ago I got another, though it seemed to petrify.

 

[Kilana2]

Still have a teddy .... my father made it for me and I will keep it. Bashir has Kukalaka. My teddy doesn't have a name, though.

 

[Kilana2]

I have a couple of teddy bears from childhood (in boxes and bags, but I still have them) and I also kept a few of my childhood books--the ones that were in good shape and had lovely artwork.

I also have some childhood books. One of them is a book with fairy tales. It almost falls apart.....

 

[Victoria]

Colonel Theodore Bear is sitting beside me as I type. He's just a couple of weeks younger than I am. Which of the pair of us is more battered is a matter of opinion.

Also have many childhood books although, in some cases, the original copy (for example, the paperback of "Little House in the Big Woods" that I was given when I was 8) is too fragile (ie read so much) for use and I have a separate reading copy. In other cases (the Dr. Seuss books, for instance) are being read by grandchildren and great niblings.

 

[Santaman]

I have many items from my childhood and also from later on, I have a teddy bear my parents bought just before I was born, I still have that one, I have a really old casette player from the 80's simple mono thing, still works, from the 90's I still have a knive, back my brother, a friend and I would buy quite some fireworks for new year's eve and because of the amount all three of us got a knive with that, made in China and of questionable quality, still have the engine of an old moped lying around, also old electronics, mainly computers and of course I have a walkman.

 

[Commander Troi]

I have a beaten-up cougar named Cougie that I've had since I was very small. I also have aa beautiful Cinderella book and a German doll my godfather bought me. He was an opera singer and traveled all over the world. The last time I saw him before he died, he got me a gorgeous mask from Venice.

 

[HIjol]

“Cougie”!!!
What a perfect name!!!
Plus, Godfather Opera Singer…very cool!

 

[Commander Troi]

Yeah, Butch was my mom's first cousin.

 

[HIjol]

Did you ever get to hear him sing?

 

[BK613]

My parents moved twice while I was haze gray and underway, so most of my childhood and adolescent things went the way of garage sales.
I do have some books and a few odd items us kids found when we cleared out the parents home after my Dad passed in 2009—like the bow I had as a teen.
I lost the coin toss on the card table me and my little brother used to build models on growing up but it ended up in a great spot. The thing was covered in paint drops and spills and looked sufficiently abstract that my bro took the legs off and mounted on the wall of his house's craft room.

 

[HIjol]

Now THAT is how to save a childhood (card table) memory!!!

 

[Velocity]

I have been giving most of it to my granddaughters. The last things I gave my younger granddaughter were stuffed little teddy bears dressed as a nurse and doctor. They were Nurse Pooky and Dr. Pooky. Also, I gave her a necklace that had a locket with a tiny pearl in a flower. I mostly wore it to Sunday School back in the 50s. Okay, waaaay back.

 

[publiusr]

My parents moved twice while I was haze gray and underway, so most of my childhood and adolescent things went the way of garage sales.

Same here.
Apart from a family Bible and photos, there is a small baby book which my mother wrote in for each birthday.

I miss my first AMT Enterprise my cousin broke. My Dad worked very hard on that.

I should have left it home during a trip to my Grandmothers—where he showed up unexpectedly.

My Mom’s scissors and my Dad’s railroad watch and needle nose pliers were stolen by workers in one move and after my plumbing disaster clean up.

I learned a long time ago that I wasn’t meant to have anything.