What is your favorite childhood item?

What is your favorite childhood item?

We all have them. The special stuff that we bring with us from our parent's home, to college, to apartments, to our own houses.
I have a box of letters/cards/books that I call my Memento Box. It has letters from my best friend when we were in 7th grade+, I have my General Hospital Fanatic tee-shirt in it, my dance recital costume from when I was 5 years old, a popped balloon from my Sweet 16- things that I love to see every once in a while.

I still have my ballet shoes too, which occassionally I put on when no one is home.

But my most favorite thing in the whole world (not counting humans or my cat) is my Teddy Bear. I got him when I was 6 months old, my very first Christmas. His name is Teddy. He has almost no stuffing left, and one eye got eaten by a dog but my Mom performed surgery and sewed him up that day He lives on my bed. I wouldn't get rid of him for anything.

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my pillow...i've had it for like 20 years and i can't sleep without it - i take it EVERYWHERE!!! even my honeymoon

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I have so many things, it's impossible to list them all. My hubby calls me a rat-packer and calls my collections knick-knacks.

When we moved into our house, he tried to get me to get rid of them. Now we have a whole bedroom dedicated to my knick knacks.

The things I've saved include:

my certificates and awards from my 8th grade graduation;

class schedules from HS;

my first drivers license (the yellow kind that was easily chalked);

photos - I got a camera when I was 10 and the pictures I've taken I saved them all;

little figurines I collected from the boxes of Lipton tea way back when.

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This is the cutest, most sweetest thread topic! I don't remember what childhood items that I have left...I'll have to let you know when I get my stuff out of storage!!

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My baby sister

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Well not such a baby anymore she's 30

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Can I tell you I don't have this stuff? My parents moved to FL and I was unsure where I was going to live so most of it was sold in a garage sale, sad now that I think about that. But Gary still has his favorite stuffed animal, Morgan and his Woody the Wood Pecker stuffed animal, how cute is that for a man!!

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Like Michelle I also have a box full of items from grade school through high school. That I think holds my myst precious memories because it has letters from my best friend who died from cancer when we were 24. I also have a lot of stuffed animals that I got from my parents, that I will never part with.

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I have a box filled with some of my favorite childhood dolls. My favorites are my first cabage patch kid, Nadine and my Shirley Temple doll. I also love the blanket my mom knitted for me, my girl scout badges and sash, my grammar and high school yearbook and lots of pictures!!!!!

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I have those little wooden stacking boxes in the shape of a little house.

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I have a pillow and a cloth doll that were given to me when I was an infant. Neither has much stuffing left, and both have been sewed/patched/repaired many times over the years. It's funny how much comfort I can find in cuddling up with them. I guess in a complicated world, it's these simple things that really touch us!

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did you ever make those pre-dyed patterns from a fabric store...my mom sewed it for me and I stuffed it...he's flat and a bear...so I call him Flatbear...He's sitting in my closet...but I'll never get rid of him....

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I only saved a few things. One of them was my teddy bears. I got them both when I was a teenager. They came to the hospital with me and everything. Now they are on top of our armoir in the bedroom with some other bears.

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The only thing I really have from my childhood is a Steiff monkey who never got a name. He is brown mohair with blue glass eyes and his tail is missing. I remember swinging him around by the tail alot as a kid. In alot of childhood photos you can see the monkey in the shot too. He's been in the drawer for the longest time and he's even got a few holes but I'm going to put him on the shelf in my son's room right now.

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I have all my Cabbage Patch Kids and all my barbies.

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My dad threw or gave away my favorite Fisher Price doll house. (The one with the little people). Anyway I found the little dog...that's all I have left but I treasure it. It's like the size of my index finger lol!