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Post by papersilly on Aug 23, 2022 17:05:19 GMT
well not IN the house but our clothesline. It had metal poles and was super sturdy. I used to love running through the sheets and playing underneath. I'd like to hang my sheets and I prefer to hang dry so many of my clothes I'd make use out of it. Of course I romanticize it, but the I love the memory of being outside with mama helping hand her the clothes as she hung, and when I got older and tall enough to reach, to go outside and race to take them down. this! except i wouldn't have mine in the dark, unlit, side of the house like we did back then. it was fine when the sun was out but when it got dark, it was pitch black back there. it sucked when you forgot to get the laundry and my mom would send me and my brother out to get it. we would hurry like a ghost was chasing us. LOL. i also remember when we would put new vinyl cords on the poles and they would be nice and taut. i had DH put up a makeshift line at our current house and he calls it my "hobo clothesline". i love it. the sun hits it perfectly and things dry in a snap.
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Post by CarolinaGirl71 on Aug 23, 2022 17:06:13 GMT
Letters and cards from my grandmother. I kept them until I was married and one time in a move, DH talked me into throwing them away. Bad decision, I was her favorite grandchild (first, only girl, her namesake) and I still miss her.
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Post by CarolinaGirl71 on Aug 23, 2022 17:07:08 GMT
Letters and cards from my grandmother. I kept them until I was married and one time in a move, DH talked me into throwing them away. Bad decision, I was her favorite grandchild (first, only girl, her namesake) and I still miss her.
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Post by craftedbys on Aug 23, 2022 17:56:02 GMT
There really isn't much because DH and I bought the house I grew up in.
Mom and Dad bought it new in 1967, the year after I was born. Mom passed in 2017 and Dad spent two years in a senior living apartment when he decided he hated it and moved back in with us.
As a child of the depression my mom saved everything. Eve.ry.thing.
We used to call this house the House of Requirement because no matter what you needed, you could always find it here.
DH has renamed it to the House of Redundancy because now not only can you find what you need, we most likely have 2 or 3 of the item. I am my mother's daughter.
I love that I have so much of my childhood things, including the white and gold dresser with mirror and matching chest of drawers (if you grew up in the 70s and 80s you know the set, faux French Provencal from Sears).
The one thing I wish I had was the old iron Jenny Lind twin bed headboard and footboard. Dad threw it away sometime in the 80s and Mom never let him live down her displeasure.
Love all these childhood memories, brings back so many happy thoughts.
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Post by Crack-a-lackin on Aug 23, 2022 18:38:00 GMT
Our living room sofa. It was long, gold, crushed velvet. So comfortable and safe. It was where we played, read books, and got to watch the Price is Right when we were sick.
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RedSquirrelUK
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Post by RedSquirrelUK on Aug 23, 2022 19:28:45 GMT
My Dad's piano.
But still I have a lot of things from my childhood home - in which which my mother and brother still live.
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Post by epeanymous on Aug 23, 2022 19:36:46 GMT
There really isn't much because DH and I bought the house I grew up in. Mom and Dad bought it new in 1967, the year after I was born. Mom passed in 2017 and Dad spent two years in a senior living apartment when he decided he hated it and moved back in with us. As a child of the depression my mom saved everything. Eve.ry.thing. We used to call this house the House of Requirement because no matter what you needed, you could always find it here. DH has renamed it to the House of Redundancy because now not only can you find what you need, we most likely have 2 or 3 of the item. I am my mother's daughter. I love that I have so much of my childhood things, including the white and gold dresser with mirror and matching chest of drawers (if you grew up in the 70s and 80s you know the set, faux French Provencal from Sears). The one thing I wish I had was the old iron Jenny Lind twin bed headboard and footboard. Dad threw it away sometime in the 80s and Mom never let him live down her displeasure. Love all these childhood memories, brings back so many happy thoughts. I did, indeed, have that very bedroom set.
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Post by peasapie on Aug 23, 2022 19:38:04 GMT
This makes me kind of sad because we moved around so often, my parents would always sell or trash a lot between moves. For several years, my sister and I would save our money and buy a horse, train it, love it, then dad would decide to move. He would sell the horse without telling us and give us $10 saying he'd give us the rest of the money later, but we never saw anything. After 3 horses, we decided not to get anymore horses. The heartbreak was too much and we were old enough to realize he'd never play fair. So I'm pretty sure, if we had our wish, my sis and I would like our horses back. Oh I'm so sorry. That had to be very hard on you both.
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anniebeth24
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Post by anniebeth24 on Aug 23, 2022 19:51:41 GMT
I wish I still had my Sesame Street little people play set. I loved that thing. Random, but I saw a Golden Girls little people play set and I think I am going to have to go back and get it. It was so cute. To answer the OP, probably my preemie Cabbage Patch Doll. I loved her. There's a Ted Lasso set, too!
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Post by mom on Aug 23, 2022 20:05:04 GMT
Random, but I saw a Golden Girls little people play set and I think I am going to have to go back and get it. It was so cute. To answer the OP, probably my preemie Cabbage Patch Doll. I loved her. There's a Ted Lasso set, too! Ohh I haven't seen it but will look it up!
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Post by jayfab on Aug 23, 2022 21:17:30 GMT
well not IN the house but our clothesline. It had metal poles and was super sturdy. I used to love running through the sheets and playing underneath. I'd like to hang my sheets and I prefer to hang dry so many of my clothes I'd make use out of it. Of course I romanticize it, but the I love the memory of being outside with mama helping hand her the clothes as she hung, and when I got older and tall enough to reach, to go outside and race to take them down. Haha, I have a love hate relationship with those. Just about every home had them where I grew up. We used them like monkey bars when no wash was hung. We'd scoot up the pole and hand upside down by our knees. We'd pull the clothesline down to the ground in the middle between both poles, stand on it and let it flip us into the air. I hurt my shoulder really bad one time and I was so afraid to tell my mom. When I bought our house 30 years ago we had them in this back yard too. We dug them out and put them by the curb for the taking. Someone picked them up within the hour, with the 75 lbs of cement still attached to the bottom! I wish I had them back now, they last for years and years.
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Post by stampnscrap1128 on Aug 24, 2022 2:07:40 GMT
The lilac bushes. They smelled so good. The red currant berry bushes. The berries made a delicious jelly (made by my mom).
And of course I'd love to have both of my parents back.
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Post by ilovesmores on Aug 24, 2022 2:23:23 GMT
I wish I still had my Sesame Street little people play set. I loved that thing. I still have mine and I still love it! It makes me happy sitting on the shelf
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Post by scrappinwithoutpeas on Aug 24, 2022 2:33:24 GMT
The tree house and swing we had in the side yard of our first house. My brother and I had such fun with those! I'd also love to have the window seat from the dining room in that house, and the playroom we had upstairs. It was an old house with lots of nooks and crannies - such good memories of that house! When I was 5 we moved to a new MCM house - a rancher with wide open spaces and no nooks and crannies. My parents loved it but I didn't. But we spent the remainder of my growing-up years at that house. It did have a great backyard and patio with a built in brick BBQ grill, so those were nice - the rest just wasn't my style; it seemed everybody was always all over each other, some parts too big and others too small. From that house I wish I could've kept the huge old wooden teacher's desk that I had in my room -- my Mom was a teacher at that time and bought it when the school district was upgrading to newer modern desks. She got it for me when I was around middle school age, and I really loved that desk. It had tons of drawers and made me feel really studious and important, LOL. It was massive and really was too big for my small-ish bedroom, but we rearranged everything to make it fit. When they (inevitably) moved the desk out at some point after I was in HS, I got to have a white love seat in my room instead, which was also nice. (It had been a living room cast-off when they got new LR furniture, LOL.) ETA: Yes, all the Little People play sets, for sure! We still have one - the Fisher Price Main Street (circa 80s) with all of the original style Little People. Also it would have been nice to keep the cool dollhouse we had. It was NOT a barbie dream house, but some modern-looking thing with different colored transparent acrylic floors and walls and open-style rooms. (Weird that I liked the open MCM style in the dollhouse, but not in our own house...? )
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Post by Eddie-n-Harley on Aug 24, 2022 3:18:31 GMT
I always wanted the family nativity set. So did my sister. We fought over took turns setting it up each day.
We think mom threw it out one year when she moved or maybe gave it away to friends who helped her move... but to be fair, that was shortly before they found the brain tumor.
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Post by mymindseyedpea on Aug 24, 2022 4:49:56 GMT
A photo that was taken at my Sweet 16 birthday of my crush holding me with my arms around him.
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Post by hopemax on Aug 24, 2022 5:00:46 GMT
My parents were too nostalgic, borderline hoarders, and I inherited a little of that too, so I have most everything I would have wanted. I have the Richard Scarry Puzzletown Sets, I have all my Barbies, Cabbage Patch Kids and favorite stuffed animals and doll my Mom made me. My Dad still has all the old Holiday decorations I loved, and the crewel Disney kits that hung in my room when I was little. Several pieces of their furniture live in my house. I even have the stupid plant rack that they got from a neighbor, and I used it to hold my Beanie Babies, lol.
If there is something... in the 70's my parents painted a lot of plastercraft. We have many of the pieces, Christmas Santa, Nativity Set, some planters. But they had this 3' Tiger that used to be in the living room. When I was in high school, I think, when they finally got rid of it. But it was a cool tiger.
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Post by lesserknownpea on Aug 24, 2022 6:58:51 GMT
Hmmmm. Until this thread I’ve never asked myself that question.
The answer is nothing. This was not a happy home. Not happy memories.
I do have my childhood doll, which I’ve been told looks creepy after sixty years of abuse, but my granddaughter loves her.
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Post by FrozenPea on Aug 24, 2022 7:24:05 GMT
My Nancy Drew books, and cards from my grandparents.
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bklyngal62
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Post by bklyngal62 on Aug 24, 2022 9:55:41 GMT
My dad. Didn't have very many things but I do have plenty of memories with my family in our home.
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Post by bklyngal62 on Aug 24, 2022 9:57:12 GMT
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Post by mikklynn on Aug 24, 2022 16:31:44 GMT
My Nancy Drew books, and cards from my grandparents. I thought of my Nancy Drew books, too.
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iluvpink
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Post by iluvpink on Aug 24, 2022 17:20:55 GMT
Well my parents are still living in it, and have saved SO much. I have most of the things I want, though I think they may still have a few childhood items packed away.
I do hope to inherit these paper cutouts they have for Christmas decorations. They've had them since I was small and they are just different Christmas scenes with Santa, elves etc on heavy duty paper, but I love them.
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Post by Scrapper100 on Aug 24, 2022 21:13:27 GMT
I have always wished I had the camellia bush and the midnight blooming jasmine. I used to love to open my windows and smell it at night during the summer. The Camellia bush had the most gorgeous flowers and bloomed like crazy. I have never seen one with the same coloring or that was as prolific.
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Post by peabay on Aug 24, 2022 21:20:58 GMT
My album collection. I had hundreds but thought, when CDs came out, "who is ever going to listen to vinyl again?" Idiot.
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Post by dexter on Aug 25, 2022 1:55:53 GMT
This is a tough question! We had a house fire when I was in 8th grade and lost so much. But thinking way, way back it would have to be the big farmhouse kitchen from my childhood home. It was just the hub and family was always there. Extended family, grandparents and aunts and uncles and cousins…. It was a huge kitchen and probably ridiculously inefficient but with a huge table right in the center and just thinking of those times make me smile. Everything is just so different.
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Post by used2scrap on Aug 25, 2022 2:14:49 GMT
My childhood friends and the joy of childhood.
Sigh Reconnected with my neighbor bestie from age 4-14 this weekend (at age 47) and it was amazing!
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Post by moodyblue on Aug 25, 2022 3:00:41 GMT
My Nancy Drew books, and cards from my grandparents. I have my Nancy Drew books - AND the ones my mother had. This thread has made me wonder what happened to a lot of things. I’m guessing that some were tossed when my parents moved across the driveway, leaving our childhood home on the farm to my brother and his new family (26 years ago), and my mom may have cleaned out even more in the years after that. Some things were left in the house but my sister-in-law is the type to toss things that aren’t hers or that she doesn’t care about. My brother was okay with keeping the old books, for example, but I ended up with more of them, out of concern that his wife would toss them someday without warning.
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Post by lisae on Aug 25, 2022 11:47:34 GMT
I wish I had photos of what my room looked like when I was growing up. I don't think we ever took any photos of me in my room or even just of the room itself after it was redecorated. I'd hoped to find some of the old draperies in the attic when we cleaned it out so I could have a piece of the fabric but no luck.
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Post by twistedscissors on Aug 25, 2022 12:09:32 GMT
Hmmmm. Until this thread I’ve never asked myself that question. The answer is nothing. This was not a happy home. Not happy memories. I do have my childhood doll, which I’ve been told looks creepy after sixty years of abuse, but my granddaughter loves her. This is what I keep thinking as I read thru this thread. Nothing. Absolutely nothing. I do have a rather creepy doll that belonged to my mother when she was a child.
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