Granted, since the kiddos are only 9 and 6, planning for grandchildren is getting a bit ahead of myself. However, Boy Opera used to LOVE Thomas the Tank Engine. A lot of that love was in the early years when Thomas wasn't available in stores around here. I ordered his first backpack off the internet from a store in California for kindergarden. Anyway, we have probably $1000+ in Thomas trains, track, and a table that I absolutely refuse to get rid of. I'm picturing hauling it out for grandbabies one day. We also have some Little People stuff left over from Operaetta that I won't get rid of.
My mother-in-law saved all of her kids Little People stuff (when Little People were actually Little People, not Little Fat So Kids Don't Swallow Them People) and I've always thought that was so cool. My kids play with them everytime we visit. My husband always says, "Hey, I remember playing with those!"
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Posted by maui babe (Member # 1894) on :
I had a collection of about 75 handmade puppets that a friend of mine has given me over the past 17 years. My children no longer play with them and when I moved to Hawaii a few years ago I left them in storage.
While my daughter was on the mainland visiting a couple of years ago, she decided I didn't need them any more and gave them all to my sister in law who has small children.
To be honest, if I was going to give them to anyone other than my grandchildren, it would have been her, but I really was saving them for my grandchildren. So I talked to my puppet making friend and asked how many tons of macadamia nuts and pineapples it would take to get some more puppets. I'm slowly building up my collection again, and I guess I'll have to guard it more carefully this time.
Posted by Kayla (Member # 2403) on :
I'm not a saver. I'm a thrower married to a pack rat and mother of a pack rat.
But I know what you mean. My parents saved my brothers Tonka trucks. They also still have a rocking horse and train set, but the train set was my mother's brother's and we weren't actually allowed to touch it, but my dad would set it up at Christmas.
But it will probably be his books. I make him go through them every once in a while to see if there are any he wants to get rid of and we send them to his younger cousins, but I have a feeling that I'll be the proud grandma of a lot of Pokemon books and a ton of Hardy Boy's books that my parents have been buying him. (I think we're up to over 35 of the hard back books.)
Posted by dread pirate romany (Member # 6869) on :
Not much, I'm a thrower too. But the gown I and two of my babies were baptised in (Andrew was too big), plus the outfit his godmother made for his baptism. PLus a copy of Alice in Wonderland that has been in the family since 1948.
Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
My grandmother made porcelain dolls by hand - fired the bodies and heads, painted everything, created the wigs, sewed the clothes. Between what I and my mother had, there are about 12, plus I have all of the equipment and books to make everything. It's DEFINITELY not something I'm into right now, but maybe I will be someday. But I'm saving the dolls and how-to-make-them for the as-yet theoretical progeny.
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Posted by Boon (Member # 4646) on :
The receiving blankets that my mother got for me and I've used for my kids, my old Cabbage Patch doll that my daughter plays with now, my father's old teddy bear that I slept with as a child and who now lives on my dresser (until Thomas decides he wants it), the outfits each of them came home from the hospital in, and what few toys they truly treasure.
And the beautiful handmade quilt that was sent to me a few months ago for Thomas. Thank you again, dkw!
Posted by jeniwren (Member # 2002) on :
I have a little riding horse that my parents gave me when I was about 3. My daughter now plays with it. I'll hang on to it and my grandchildren can play with it when they're about that age.
I have a few books that I'll hang on to. Burt Dow, Deep Sea Man, especially. My son *loved* that book. And The Man Who Lost His Head. And all my Dr. Suess's.
Posted by kwsni (Member # 1831) on :
My mom's got all my kid stuff boxed up in the garage somewhere, and I fully intend to give it to my kids. Especially all the barbies wiht thier heads half ripped off.
A lit of my REALLY little kid stuff was thrown out when my dad remarried, so i don't have some of it that I really miss.
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Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :
I have a few things, but probably I'd want to save the pictures of previous generations (my dad, his dad and his granddad; my mom and grandparents on her side, etc.
I might save a few "things" but I don't really have the kind of heirlooms that get passed down. Seems like maybe I should start a tradition of that sort.
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