Owned since you were a child

[Jazzy]

What something you have owned since you were a child?

 

[ValleyGal]

I have an orange monkey with floppy legs and arms and a creepy plastic face with plastic ears that stick out. My great granny gave it to me when I was four months old (I'm 58). I teethed on its plastic ears. I had it displayed in a cabinet when a census taker came and she recognized it as an authentic Jo-Jo (and that is what it was, and what I called it all my life even as one of my first words). It's old, threadbare and the insides are turning to dust, but I loved that little monkey!

I have a few other things too, like a ceramic doll and crocheted poncho my granny made for me in the early 70s - the last gifts before she died.

 

[tango]

What something you have owned since you were a child?

I still have a simple music box that I've had since I was 5 and maybe younger still. It still works, kind of. I've got a couple of the soft toys I had as a very small child but I'm not sure where they all are. In a box in the attic, most likely.

 

[Messy]

A diary, my parents still have it and a bottle I painted for them when I was 2 and maybe paintings. Got em back when my uncle died. He had saved those things. I didn't care about em, but maybe my parents have em upstairs. They also have a watering can, still the same thing and a thing to bake cakes in. They had that when I was a kid. But myself, no I have nothing.