What's the coolest thing you carry?

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Grandpa

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Thanks guys, i appreciate the fact that you want to know about the coin.

my family tree goes back to 1633 here in the United States, i was given the documentation and genealogy book by my aunt Milly when i graduated high school. The coin was among my great grandmother's things when she passed and since i'm the only grand daughter who favored her likeness (both redheads with green eyes), i was allowed to choose a few things before they were distributed. The coin, circa 1630, is worn and flat and has a bit of green on it (i assume it's copper?) but i keep it with me as a reminder of where and who i came from.
I have no idea where she got it from but i like to imagine that maybe it made it's passage with one of those first ancestors that landed here way back when this country was just beginning.

This is about the coolest thing I've ever heard of someone carrying with them. :encouragement:
 

Lepplady

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Thanks guys, i appreciate the fact that you want to know about the coin.

my family tree goes back to 1633 here in the United States, i was given the documentation and genealogy book by my aunt Milly when i graduated high school. The coin was among my great grandmother's things when she passed and since i'm the only grand daughter who favored her likeness (both redheads with green eyes), i was allowed to choose a few things before they were distributed. The coin, circa 1630, is worn and flat and has a bit of green on it (i assume it's copper?) but i keep it with me as a reminder of where and who i came from.
I have no idea where she got it from but i like to imagine that maybe it made it's passage with one of those first ancestors that landed here way back when this country was just beginning.
That's beautiful.
I carry my mom's Cherokee registration card for much the same reason. It reminds me not only of my departed mother, but also the heritage that we can (and have) traced back through centuries on this continent. It's nice to be reminded of who we are and where we come from.
 

fushingfeef

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My watch.
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do1you9love?

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My watch.
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Man! I bet you can contact space stations with that thing!

I have also lost treasured keepsakes so I don't carry the cool stuff anymore.

I do keep a Keychain with gloves and face barrier for CPR, but my coolest thing is probably a travel size container of Tony Chachare's Cajun seasoning that I made myself from an empty spice jar.
 

carrie's younger brother

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Yes! he does. Patron saint of the impossible and lost causes. Of which, I am both. :)

Have a great weekend, sir!
He was my mother's go-to saint when I was growing up. She would have novenas said in his name to help our family. That about tells you what we were like! Today after mass, I lit a candle in fron of his statue at church in memory of my mother.
 

swiftdog2.0

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I have my Dad's Boston Police Detective's Ring and his father's (my grandfather) pocket watch. My Mom gave me both when my Dad passed.

I don't carry them around but I do wear my Dad's ring on a chain on June 26th (the day he passed) and September 9th (his birthday). I have the pocket watch stashed away. It still works. My grandfather passed away a few months before I was born so I never met him :(
 

Grandpa

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This is reminding me. I don't carry it around. I sometimes take the knife while camping that my dad had while in service. It has a leather sheath that is adorned with carvings of friends of his in the Air Force during Korea, although Dad was never in Korea. As a knife, it's not so impressive - about half the size of a Kabar. But Dad was proud of it.
 

PatInTheHat

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The coolest thing I carry with me is my attitude.......
A barmaid I once helped go to college, or maybe it was buy a condo, perhaps personal aircraft, for some reason can't remember exactly, anyway she said something similar, called it her "pocket tude-a-tude", and the most valuable thing she owned...and it was, too, she had serious snap:thumbs_up:
 

Sundrop

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I don't carry it, but I think it's kinda cool. It's some kind of state commemorative coin. My brother always carried it with him because he liked the motto, "To be rather than to seem". It was in his pocket when the accident happened. I almost buried it with him, but I decided to keep it.....I take it out and look at it sometimes, hold it in my hand, run my fingers over the carvings......and smile.

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Dana Jean

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I don't carry it, but I think it's kinda cool. It's some kind of state commemorative coin. My brother always carried it with him because he liked the motto, "To be rather than to seem". It was in his pocket when the accident happened. I almost buried it with him, but I decided to keep it.....I take it out and look at it sometimes, hold it in my hand, run my fingers over the carvings......and smile.

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oh no! too precious. Don't carry.
 

Dana Jean

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This reminds me of when I was little...The game was Let's Make a Deal-(Not the new one). Women would be given valuable prizes if they had certain items in their purse. I think that my items have reduced greatly, now that I do not have little ones.
When I was a little girl, I made up my own purse for this game, throwing in all sorts of doo dads from the house.
 

DiO'Bolic

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When I was a little girl, I made up my own purse for this game, throwing in all sorts of doo dads from the house.
Last year we found a box hidden away my youngest daughter made as a time capsule when she was 4 and in pre-school. Written of the front was “do no open for 100 yeres.” 10 years later she doesn’t remember making it. In it we found things that that had gone missing which we searched high and low for at the time. A cell phone, wallet, jewelry, my astronaut pen, a hair brush and curling iron, little figures from her sister’s collection, about $50 in paper money and coins, and other things. Not one thing in the box was hers (I guess she couldn’t part with anything of hers). It was all other family members stuff that I guess she really liked and was tucking away for the future.
 

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Last year we found a box hidden away my youngest daughter made as a time capsule when she was 4 and in pre-school. Written of the front was “do no open for 100 yeres.” 10 years later she doesn’t remember making it. In it we found things that that had gone missing which we searched high and low for at the time. A cell phone, wallet, jewelry, my astronaut pen, a hair brush and curling iron, little figures from her sister’s collection, about $50 in paper money and coins, and other things. Not one thing in the box was hers (I guess she couldn’t part with anything of hers). It was all other family members stuff that I guess she really liked and was tucking away for the future.
Redistributing wealth runs deep in this one.
 

Dana Jean

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Last year we found a box hidden away my youngest daughter made as a time capsule when she was 4 and in pre-school. Written of the front was “do no open for 100 yeres.” 10 years later she doesn’t remember making it. In it we found things that that had gone missing which we searched high and low for at the time. A cell phone, wallet, jewelry, my astronaut pen, a hair brush and curling iron, little figures from her sister’s collection, about $50 in paper money and coins, and other things. Not one thing in the box was hers (I guess she couldn’t part with anything of hers). It was all other family members stuff that I guess she really liked and was tucking away for the future.

Redistributing wealth runs deep in this one.

:lol:

When I was a little girl, I would take my family's belongings and wrap them up and put under the xmas tree. I'm sure it was lots of fun for them to open up their own missing stuff.