Objects you remember from childhood
Posted by yabbitgirl on May 02, 2010 · Member since Apr 2006 · 14266 posts
I was thinking about the things that stick in your memory from when you were a kid. I was watching a movie set in those years and I saw them...those three ceramic ducks, flying up the wall. Everybody had those when I was a kid. It was like they came with the house.
A little higher up the social scale, at least where I came up, was the starburst clock. Gold or silver; sometimes instead of a clock there was a convex mirror in the centre, but it was usually a clock.
And that godawful plaid sofa and platform rocker set. Comfortable, but can you say ugly?
What do you remember that was just "always there"?
I don't think it counts as "almost there" but when my brother and I were quite small, my mother had a thing she called a spin-devil. It was basically this hairy black "body" with two legs which attached through the middle. You wound it up with a key and the legs would spin and make it run along the ground like a two-legged spider.
My brother was always terrified of it and I'm desperate to find one so I can torment him...
Oh, and the rippleknit afghan, usually in browns and yellows or greens and yellows. If you were lower down the scale, granny squares. Over the back of the sofa, clashing madly with the plaid.
I agree with the afghan. My Mom has one that my paternal grandmother made for us and it's always been on the sofa at my parents' house as long as I can remember.
My parent's good china and silverware that dates from their 1956 wedding. Even though it's not a valuable china set, I would want it for all of the wonderful memories attached to every holiday meal that has existed since they got married. My Mom tells me that I should ask for the silverware, because it's more valuable, but I'm too sentimental to sell anything like that. Probably why my raincoat was one my grandfather wore until he died in 1978 and I refuse to get rid of it.