What is the oldest thing that you bought yourself and still have

I still have my Hot Wheels (redlines) and all my track. -including speedometer, supercharger, ramrod. I have my Tonka - still in the box. I also have all my trading cards from the 60s/70s - mostly baseball but some football, nhra, plant of the apes and weird one offs. It’s hard to say what’s the oldest thing that I’ve bought that I still have because as you can see I’m a bit of a pack rat.

It’s all worth money and I plan to start selling stuff after thanksgiving because when I die and my kids inherit all this it will be worth a fraction of its current value. I’ve just got back some high dollar HOF memorabilia from PSA this week so I’m getting ready.

The oldest things I possess would be a bible printed 1796 that came over, Indian artifacts (arrowheads, tomahawk, scrapers, grinders and a jawbone so old it looks like wood)

 

I would say my car and my gold grill

 

Hell, I didn't think about books. Or fossils (Jeannie's Rock Shop)

 

I still owe Doubleday Book club (or whatever it was) money for their introductory offer of 10 books for 99 cents back in 1971 or so...

I still have all of those books to this day.

 

Cracker Jack baseball cards from 1914-1915. There are over 100 of them. My grandpa gave them to me when I was born, and he died when I was only a few days old.... he had gotten them from his dad, who left them in a perfectly made wooden box in his drawer with a letter about them, when he went off to fight in WWI.... he ended up dying, and my grandpa got nothing but the cards. There is Honus Wagner, Joe Jackson, Ty Cobb, Christy Matthewson and Walter Johnson. They are in very good shape except for Tris Speaker, who was the favorite of my great grandpa and my grandpa. The letter that he wrote to my grandpa is gone, it was buried with him but my grandpa wrote me a letter and included it. I will likely have the cards given to my son when I die.... I love Tris Speaker for sure, but I have to say I am partial to Chief Bender. I have thought about what letter I will write my son at least a dozen times.

My grandpa had it really hard with his daddy dying in WWI. His step father and mother had a lot of kids, and they did not have a lot to eat. There are letters from him talking about the Great Depression and trying to steal food, and there not being any chickens to steal.

 

I have boxes of books

 

While the cards weren’t worth much then, you’ve got money now.

Also I’m fascinated by how people lived in yesteryear. I want to spend some time documenting my time growing up thoughts it won’t be that interesting. Back then you had a large family for many reasons but one was you needed them to run a farm. My grandmother was in a large family in rural MO that the wagon tipped over crossing a rushing river. Everyone died except her, her brother and her dad. Game changer. Also my grandad was a machine gunner in WWI. He got 2 Purple Hearts and was left for dead on one of them. No man left behind? They did that day. I have the letter saying he was missing and presumed dead and how to apply for his life insurance. 4 weeks later they sent the “never mind we found him” letter. I didn’t talk to him much about his time over there but he was a full blown gentle alcoholic so I’m going to say it wasn’t great. Its disturbing thinking about how many people he killed assuming he was decent at his job.

 

Asked my brother from other mother and he said: "red longboard from Soundwaves on Montrose when I was 24ish"

 

Probably



I'm not sure I have this but if I do, this is older:

 

I betcha there’s a lot of women who would answer this question with “my first vibrator” (in closed circles, ofc).

 

For something I bought, it's probably an Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators book. I have some cool family heirlooms, including some rare-ish silver dollars, but I didn't buy them.

 

1951 - First Edition.
Purchased it at a used bookstore during the early 1960's. Mine is in better condition. I have paperbacks from the late '50's that I've had longer that cost .35 to .45 cents, but I don't care as much for them (obviously). Like everything else, books, both fiction and non-fiction, are a heck of a lot more expensive these days.