re: What's an item you own that, while not valuable, holds tremendous sentimental value to you

2013 Boston Marathon finishers medal. Was about a half mile to the finish line when the bombs went off. Several weeks later a finishers medal arrived in the mail at my house. To this day I feel weird about having it since I did not cross the line. Went back in 2014 a ran again. One of the coolest sporting events I have ever been a part of.

A wooden Rudolph



When we began to clean out my Grandparents house I couldn’t find it
My younger cousins didn’t remember it but it was always next to my Grandparents tree, finally found it in a box in the storage room
I think I was more excited about the decoration than I was myGrandfathers wedding band

A gold cross my cousin gave me. I didn’t think much of it at the time, but I put it in my pocket when shite hit the fan and didn’t take it out until it was just pieces years later. It’s gotten me through a lot.

An old coworker gave me a Filipino 20 Peso, the day she flew home

A Civil War musket with a bayonet that my grandfather bought in Vicksburg Mississippi on the street for three dollars in 1938.

It’s in pretty damn good shape, and I would not sell it for all the money in the world….very sentimental to me.

My step father raised from about 12 years old until I left home on my own. He was a business owner for most of his life. When he passed away in 2002 his biological daughter asked me if there was anything I wanted as they were going through his things. I told her the only thing I was interested in was the old bench vise from the store that I'd seen him working at for so many years, to me, it represented who he was. I got the vise in my garage today, 20 years after his death I still think of him every time I look at it.

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I have a large family bible originally given to my great grandfather in the 1920’s as a wedding gift. Folded up inside is numerous newspaper clippings and personal letters from the past 100 years. Their is also a family tree that my grandfather made that tracks our family lineage all the way back to Scotland in the late 1600’s. He actually took a vacation to Ireland (where we thought we were from originally) and then on to Scotland to do the necessary research to create it. Whichever one of my two kids has the most responsible sons will get it handed down to them along with things I have added to it.
Another thing I have already told my son he could have is 2 mounted 6 and half pound bass. One was caught by my grandfather on Nov 2nd 1979 on Caddo Lake . The other was caught by my father exactly 20 years later on Nov 2nd 1999 also on Caddo Lake. I never was much for fishing but my son is as much an avid fisherman as both my dad and grandfather were and every single year on November 2nd he is on Caddo Lake come he’ll or high water.

Grandfather fought in the South Pacific during WWII and awarded 2 bronze stars. When he returned home my grandmother gave him a watch as a present. When he passed in 1993 she gave it to me. Have worn it ever since.

I have a toy tractor that my grandfather for me when I was about 5 but he forgot to give to me. He was cleaning out his shop a few ago and found and gave it to me when I went over. 1 was 36 at the time and I have it in my office. I probably wouldn’t have cherished it if I had it that young but I think it’s pretty funny now.