The Oldest Things You Own

[Antilogic]

I've a pair of Adidas track suit trousers from August or September 1998. Buttons run the full length of each leg. Unbuttoned, the trouser legs cease to be tubes. These used to be fashionable.

You have stripper pants? Do you play basketball with them and rip them off after your first slam-dunk to show how pumped you are at putting points on the board?

I was in a pub once when some young girl came in dressed in a Nazi uniform - for a fancy dress do, I expect. The place went deathly quiet and she very quickly left. Wrong pub.

That sounds incredibly awkward. You gotta wonder if she wanted to make some kind of statement and just got cold feet or did not imagine her costume would have that kind of impact.

 

[Borachio]

Oh she was very young. Late teens I'd guess. So I suppose it was just a bridge too far, and she hadn't realized the impact that would have in a pub full of people, and people with parents, who had memories.

Just fancy dress to her. A world of hate and suffering to others.

I've always been somewhat amused that some people think Nazi clothing is sexy.

 

[Kyriakos]

I guess it is an BDSM thing. It is big in Germany

 

[The_J]

Isn't it illegal to keep Nazi stuff in Germany, The_J?

Making/putting that stuff into public is illegal, if I interpret that right, but not owning it.


But to get away from that topic:
There's another old book, some sort of lexicon, which I recall having seen in our book shelf. It's also prior 1940, I think, because it has some concepts/thoughts of the Assuan damn in it, and also some relatively ridicilous things about the moon and aliens. Don't remember exactly though what it was.

 

[Chukchi Husky]

I think the oldest thing I own is a copy of Age of Empires Gold back when computer games came in large cardboard boxes. Anything older than that has probably been broken or thrown away.

 

[Ajidica]

Oldest thing I own is probably the Soviet medals I picked up in Lviv. I can't date one (except that it was made sometime between 1950 and 1991) but the other was made in the 80's.
Don't have a picture of mine, but here are what they look like.

Order of the Great Patriotic War 2nd Class.

People's Volunteer Druzhina (neighborhood watch)

 

[Traitorfish]

I have a penny from 1899, but the oldest non-trivial thing I own is a few old books from the 1960s, which isn't every impressive. I stand to inherit a family Bible from the 1880s, though, which is pretty cool. Big wizard-looking thing with metalwork on the cover, a latch on the front and all that stuff.

Also, my parents have an Emergency Last Rites Kit from around the 1930s, which is a big wooden crucifix with holy water, a rosary and a small prayer sheet in a compartment in the back, in case somebody keeled over and the priest wouldn't get their quickly enough. It is wonderful.

 

[Kyriakos]

I once had a 1960's publication too. A greek translation of some short-stories by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, some russian theosophist and cultist.

In fact i bought it from a greek bookshop in central London...

Threw it away later on though since it made me feel sick at the time. Probably still would.

 

[timtofly]

I have a couple of books from the 1890's.

 

[emzie]

A chair from the 1600s. It was a furniture maker's example thing that he'd take with him since full sized chairs were too heavy to travel with.

 

[Borachio]

^ Nice. What's it worth? Or, rather, what do you have it insured for?

 

[Patroklos]

I have a few civil war trinkets I've picket up over the years. Par for the course for anyone who spent most of their lives in VA and SC.

Actually I have some arrowheads I dug up out of some Chesapeake farmland so definrtly older than the CW stuff.

 

[emzie]

^ Nice. What's it worth? Or, rather, what do you have it insured for?

Never been appraised afaik. As to insurance, well, thanks for assuming I'm responsible

 

[W|M]

The oldest thing in my apartment is a medieval statue of the Virgin Mary, and most of the furniture is from about 50-100 years ago. The oldest things I personally own are a VW Beatle from 1964 and a piece of the Maracanã stadium, which was built from the 1940s to 1950s.

 

[AlpsStranger]

I know this isn't that old, but I have to brag about it some where.

I have one of those weird CED players and a bunch of movies for it.

(PIC is from Wikipedia, not my stuff)

 

[Zelig]

I have a ring from 1999. Next oldest thing I own is probably my computer speakers from ~2003.

I pretty ruthlessly dispose of anything I own that is redundant or that won't be necessary in the near future.

 

[rugbyLEAGUEfan]

Borachio

 

[Valka D'Ur]

The oldest human-made thing I own is a Swedish coin from 1740. The oldest natural object I own is either a rock or fossil, and I have no idea how old they may be. I'm reasonably sure they're older than the coin.

 

[Bugfatty300]

A French M1874 11mm Gras rifle made in 1877 (top). About decade older than my oldest Morgan silver dollar.

 

[Glassfan]

...my parents have an Emergency Last Rites Kit from around the 1930s, which is a big wooden crucifix with holy water, a rosary and a small prayer sheet in a compartment in the back, in case somebody keeled over and the priest wouldn't get their quickly enough. It is wonderful.

Mum had one! A big crucifix that slid forward to reveal a secret compartment with candle, rosary, Extreme Unction card and holy water. I think one of my Prot cousins stole it when she died.