Your Most Prized Possession?

[PrinceOfLeigh]

What's your most Prized Possession?

A symbol of achievement? - Certificate, Sports Medal, Army Cap?

A Creation? - Painting, Song, ect

A heirloom? - Something given significance due to it's previous owner/s?

Something of value? - Car, Computer, Jewelry?

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For me it's my Great Britain Shirt from when I played Rugby against France. It was only Amateur but it was a big achievement in my chosen field. Sometimes I think it's my degree but that is a means to an end which I haven't reached yet.


***DISCLAIMER***
Since I don't consider 'family' to be possessions so I'm not going to count my Son as being such.

 

[thetrooper]

Right now - my mp3-player.

/materialist_troop

Yeah shallow, I know...

 

[PrinceOfLeigh]

Right now - my mp3-player.

/materialist_troop

Yeah shallow, I know...

Not at all. There is a sense of pride in working to gain something. Or, if it was given to you, waiting for it rather than just going out and stealing the bloody thing.

 

[Perfection]

My crappy computers and my broken down car.

My possessions suck.

 

[thetrooper]

Not at all. There is a sense of pride in working to gain something. Or, if it was given to you, waiting for it rather than just going out and stealing the bloody thing.

It was a gift.

I use it almost everywhere to block braindead chitchat.

 

[Lambert Simnel]

Dunno about "prized", but the possessions I feel most positive about are my video iPod (how I survived without one for so long is now quite beyond me) and my shiny new VW Passat (having lived with a crappy Vauxhall VEctra for the previous 3 years).

 

[Shaihulud]

My mental faculty, my health and my soul.

 

[El Justo]

my wife, my house, and my grass (lawn that is).

 

[IglooDame]

My wife, in certain contexts.

But that aside, I'd say my car. It is special because its purchase was symbolic of me having gotten my life back together after my divorce.

 

[AL_DA_GREAT]

My money $$$$

 

[El_Machinae]

I have nothing that I'm very emotionally tied to. However, I have some possessions that I treat with excellent care. My car is treated very gently (so the mileage does not represent the wear-and-tear), for example.

PS: how do metric users refer to 'mileage' on a vehicle, when referring to to wear-and-tear? Or the distance on the engine?

 

[Rambuchan]

What's your most Prized Possession?

Ainwood's ass.

 

[Bartleby]

My LP's would be the hardest to replace.

 

[Rambuchan]

Yeah, I'd put those right behind ainwood's ass. I mean, they would come second. I mean, they are nearly as irreplaceable. Same for books. I prize my books very highly, would be devastated if they went.

 

[Tank_Guy#3]

Ainwood's ass.

Are you calling down the heat on yourself?

Mine are my dogs (though I don't view them as possessions really), then my car (not the best in the world, but it gets me from A to B with very few problems), and my computer.

 

[PrinceOfLeigh]

Ainwood's ass.

Thanks for attempting to get my thread shut down you {Insert Previously Unused Southerner Stereotype}

 

[Reno]

It would be my Labrador Retriever Väinö, but I (And the rest of our family) see him as a family member and not a posession that can just be replaced. Väinö is irreplaceable, once he is gone there won't be another like him.

But the object that is most dearest to me that I have, is a large pile of letters and official documents concerning the former Palmén (My lastname, If you are wondering) owned farm-estate (Marttila was it's name) in Finland. The oldest of those documents date back to 1697, they still have their writing and wax markings of the Swedish (And from letters made after 1809, Russian) Nobility seals in good condition. Sadly the writing is in Finlandssvenska (Old Swedish spoken in Finland.) so I can't make much sense of it. Those letters were given to me by my Historian grandpa who had dug them up from the farm-estate. (Which we no longer own. But no matter.)

I can just smell history on those papers. That's my most prized posession.

Edit: Important typo, corrected.

 

[PrinceOfLeigh]

@ Reno
That is a very good one.

 

[Reno]

@ Reno
That is a very good one.

Indeed it is. (Atleast to me.) The papers got plenty of personal value to me as they concern my own family's history.

 

[Rambuchan]

Tank & Prince: I was referencing a thread from a while back, not what you both suggest.