What's The Oldest Thing You own?

Cosmic.

Actually, when you get right down to it, every quark is from the cooling after the Big Bang, so really everything is 13.7 billion years old.


Give or take.

 

Probably this..

 

Fart thing? Sounds like my 12yo.

 

Tell her to revel in them now.

By about 55 you can't trust 'em anymore.

 

She does her own laundry. If she lets one loose that’s a little, umm, loose, that’s on her.

 

from that facial profile that was definitely a Rothschild bank backed coin… same as it always was…

 

Faience beads from Saqqara in Egypt. At least 1000 BC. Maybe 2000 BC.
My grandfather was an Egyptologist.

 

Don’t actually know how old it is, but I have a light bulb that was the first bulb my grandma had when their house got electricity. If hung from a cord on their back porch. It is shaped differently than bulbs today, and has a filament that winds around about once in the bulb and that’s it. The filament is still intact, but I haven’t used it in over 60 years. Have no idea what it is worth, but I keep it in a shoebox full of styrofoam bits.

 

I've got my paternal Grandfather's oldest tools and the toolboxes he made. He was a tool and die maker. My Dad sold his newer stuff to a friend. I've go a few of my Great Uncle's woodworking tools he used to build his cabin in Minnesota during the depression, while living in the back of a delivery truck. I have a china cabinet he built as well, full of my Grandma's (his sister's) and my Mom's china and collectables. Have my Grandma's real silver utensil set and cabinet also. I'm afraid my girls are't going to want it all, so have to figure out what to do with it all. Been sending small stuff to nieces and nephews every Christmas.

A pair of matching chairs my maternal Grandparents were given that came off of some steamboat, and a handmade and detailed scale model of a sailing ship given to them during the depression from neighbors they helped feed during the depression, along with old furniture I don't recall now. Immaculate old crank telephone. A bunch of my Father in-law's tools and old photography equipment also.

Oh, I have a bunch of my Dad's stuff from WWII, including a box full of the letters he sent to my Mom. Both Mom's and Mom in law's cedar chest. Mom's teenage brass bed, folks wedding furniture set. A Model T front axle and wheel assembly from an old home-made trailer a friend gave my dad. The list goes on...

I still own my childhood home on the Mississippi River, bought by my folks in 1965 after what is still the all time record flood there.
'Too Much Stuff,' to quote Delbert McClinton.

"You think you own your stuff, but your stuff owns you." Shared with me by my friend's Mom Nancy Shadle after church one day.

 

I own nothing and I like it

 

My esteem of you just went up two notches, if you care.

 

And mine for you for not bumping hawk tuah for a whole day and a half

 

I feel challenged. Hold a minute…

 

Papa I feel no esteem towards you. Go right ahead lol

 

You didn’t have a good experience yesterday? Hope all was clear for you? I’m good to go! Was about one hour behind for me, the person in front of me had a bad reaction to the non narcotic stuff they used to put us out. Then in recovery my wife heard the guy next to us complaining of pain in his ass! The food yesterday was so good! The solid movement was the greatest of all though


And do we really own anything?

 

You want to own something? Own your actions and accountability !
And a storage facility, those are money makers!
Because most all own/have too much stuff

 

That was my thought also. I have an ashtray made from fossilized stone with a bunch of ammonoid cephalopods in it. Could be 70-400 million years old.

 

My favorite post so far. Heat shield, bayonet, and/or sling? That things probably worth a mint, especially if it has any of that stuff.

 

Right as rain! Went on a propofol nap and woke up happy as a clam and unable to remember what I was talking about 15 seconds before.

4 biopsies snipped out and sent for testing, but I'm not going to borrow trouble worrying about them.