Do you have an odd item of your deceased loved one?

I have my paternal grandmother’s walker and her hearing aid. I don’t use them of course, well, not yet at least.

I have a huge ball bearing that my grandfather gave to me as a kid. I have a magazine clipping that my grandmother cut out decades ago, a poem about the house rules, and I keep it on my fridge. It actually got wet a few weeks ago, and I was reduced to a blubbering mess of tears. (It’s okay, my husband immediately laid it out flat to dry in a safe place, and it’s good as new.)
Funny how things that seem insignificant can develop meaning to us.

A succulent plant from my grandma.
It is twice as big now compared to when she died and I took it.
And I cut it for offspring, which is quite successful.
Here they are both.

@rebbel it looks like one is trying to make a bid for freedom :)

@Lightlyseared Yeah, that would be the baby :-)
This was already a treat for them, to be on the balcony, as I took them out to make the photo.

I had a few but on a cleaning some years ago I decided to get rid of them. I don’t really get to attached to an item. But I do have a lot of items from a few decades ago I can’t seem to be able to get rid of. There’s no particular emotions connecting me to those items but I just like them [because they are yellow ^^].

@Jude I would probably still have my dad’s dentures if I hadn’t decided they should be cremated with him. I thought the man should be sent off with his teeth; they were part of him. I have his hearing aids though, ear wax and all. I also have locks of both my mother’s and father’s hair that I cut from their heads after each of them died. I’ve have pretty much all their stuff because I live in their house now; I’m not sure what constitutes weird.

Why would I judge? I have my brother’s college notebooks.

I have a half finished sweater that I was making for my Mother. It’s still in the same bag, with the yarn and pattern instructions it was in when she passed on over 25 years ago.

Five of Dad’s hats and a bar of Packer’s Tar Soap…his favorite. I also have a bottle of lotion that belonged to my sister. The scent of both the soap and the lotion remind me of them.

@YARNLADY I love that. :)

Oh. @Pied_Pfeffer reminded me that I have my paternal grandfather’s shaving kit & lather brush.

I have from my mother a walker, a commode with handles that fits over a standard toilet, a shower seat, several canes, her glasses and her hearing aids.

The surgical supplies are now at my friend’s house while she recovers from a hip replacement; the cane is at my nephew’s while he recovers from wrist surgery; I am going to use the glasses frames for my new RX, and the hearing aids are being used by two other friends who will need only to have the cheap plastic earmolds made.

I don’t, but my mum does. She has her gran’s dentures too XD
I’m glad I got the cool stuff, I got my great grandfather’s army knife :D

I have assorted belongings of my mother’s, from very old children’s books that had been her mother’s to American Brilliant cut glass pieces, from ordinary Pyrex kitchen items to the desk she worked at for some 60 years, which I had shipped across the country. Probably the oddest is a lead soldier of the kind that boys used to collect and stage whole battles with. She had no brothers; she played with lead soldiers all on her own. I asked for one.

Of my father’s things I have very little, but I do have a carved wooden figure of a road runner that I gave him in 1966 and that sat on his desk in the philosophy department until his death, when it came back to me.

@Jeruba You just made me think of the item! I made a painting of a roadrunner for my Grandma when I was about 14 years old. When she died, and my Grandpa had to move into a house closer to us, the painting was given back to me, and it still hangs in my house.

I have a small plastic Marvin the Martian statue from my sister.

I have Mom’s purse and her billfold. I carry her driver’s license in my bill fold. I have her keys on my key chain, including her Dillons card thing, her 10 years of service at Boeing key ring, and a hologram thing of Jesus.

I do have stuff from my husband. I might have the weirdest yet, so there is no way I could judge.

Of course I have the normal things his drumsticks, drum, kilt, his football jersey, birth certificate and DL. I do also have a lock of hair and his fake front tooth since the real one was busted out in a football injury and was replaced with the fake and then the hospital rebusted it back out putting in the emergency airtube. Ironically the hair and fake tooth were put in a unused urine jar which they are still in.

I also have a clay ball, which he rolled onto a perfect ball that I can’t get rid of.

I have one other thing, my husband loved chewing bubble gum he thought one day it would be a joke since I wanted a piece that he would chew the entire package so I couldn’t have a piece and to tease me, he then stuck it all to his mouth guard and offered it to me…I still have it, and I can’t get rid of it. :/

I have my dad’s dog-tags.
That may not be too odd

@cprevite Not. The bubble gum thing with @Meego tho…naw. That’s cool too!!

@cprevite I have my dad’s dog tags too, from the Navy, WWII.

@Dutchess_III: Heh

@lilycoyote: Very cool. My dad was in the Navy too, but it was Vietnam for him.