We own a lot of stuff. Some of them are items we cannot go a day without, and some have sort of sentimental value or just seem important enough to keep. But sometimes, people own the weirdest things with the craziest backstories.
That is why I asked the community of Bored Panda to tell us what they own that probably no one else has.
#1
The cutest cat in the whole world ?
#2
I have a small (about an inch long), mangled, sharp piece of shrapnel that a person mowing their lawn hit, it flew across 3 lanes of traffic and a median strip, through my car window, and into my ribs.
#3
Original first edition copy of Le Fantome De L'Opera by Gaston Leroux (1909)
#4
My Great Uncle's whistle he carried at Passchendaele and other battles in WW1.
#5
I own an official Nanosecond. Actually, it is a section of yellow-stranded 1980s plenum cable that was cut to the exact length that an electron would traverse in one nanosecond. It is signed by the late Rear Admiral Grace M. Hopper, one of the most famous and accomplished computer scientists. She was a member of the Harvard team that discovered the first computer bug.
#6
Bathroom trash can made from an empty cardboard box. I even moved it from my apartment to my new house. I think nothing about dropping $8 on a latte that'll be gone in half an hour, but a $5 trash can? Out of the question.
#7
A piece of shale I found while coming back down the mountain. My brother and I were exploring an old gold mine at the top, and on the way back down, we saw a small ledge along the trail that looked like a great spot to climb up and take a break. We climbed the 20 or so feet to the ledge and got comfortable with our backs to the wall and feet dangling. I reached behind me for a piece of shale to put my name and date on. I wiped the dirt, and it already had one. Guys name, and April 21, 1941. I still have it. Left my own piece there for someone else to find someday.
#8
Me
#9
A walking stick I decorated with a specific set of runes
#10
Probably my favorite baby blanket. It stopped being made a couple of years ago and there weren't many produced so I have one. That must be pretty special. It's my comfort item, I only use it when I'm really stressed.
#11
One of those blue mailboxes that the post office uses to collect mail across the city. It was made the year I was born and had been stationed in the town where I grew up. I acquired it through not-illegal means (it was in a pile of stuff headed out for scrap metal due to minor damage) and I've had it for something like 30 years. Use it for storage.
#12
We still have an old black wall-mounted rotary phone that is old enough that you can’t even change the cord from the phone to the handset (you could on newer ones).FYI it still works!
#13
Items from the last full-blooded shaman of the Kaw Nations
#14
A girl scout sniper uniform complete with a hot pink bedazzled sniper rifle.
#15
I don’t believe I have anything except for the stories I write
#16
A still sealed original Salvador Dali tarot deck
#17
A mint condition WWII Coca-Cola newspaper ad.
#18
I know for a FACT that no one else has a carved wooden bust of my head
#19
A rock collection full of rocks I found on the playground as a child, which includes amethyst and rosemary quartz.
#20
The nest of a family of Firecrests.They stayed in our palm tree last summer and we were lucky enough to see them fly the nest. The recent storms have dislodged the nest and I now thinking of somewhere nice to keep it. We don't often see Firecrests in the UK so we were very privileged to have what may be a once-in-a-lifetime experience.
#21
Anatomically correct museum-quality replica of a male North Atlantic lobster, once used in an ocean exhibition in one of the most famous museums in the world.
#22
Self-esteem
#23
A bottle of Sweet Honey Catalina Dressing expired in November 2007.
#24
Zassenhaus nut grinder over 100 years old. I don't know how old exactly b/c it was in Hubby's grandma's cabinet of "old stuff".
#25
A pair of letters written by John F. Kennedy and Robert Kennedy congratulating someone on a new job.
#26
All kids & grandkid in my family has a handmade blanket quilted/crocheted by family members.
#27
A dead dried toad I found on the street side and put it into a glass box for display.
#28
A puffin skull I preserved myself.
#29
First of all, I have the One Ring on a necklace. Second of all, I have a small ghost made out of pastel rainbow yarn (his name is Soft Ghost Boi lol) and I made him so he’s one of a kind.
#30
I have an antique monkey hair hand warmer that I bought at an auction. I was the only bidder. There was also an antique sheer robe with monkey hair trim, but that went through the roof.
#31
Original art (paintings, sculptures) made by others and some by me.#32
Walt disney original record tape#33
Paiper Mache snails.#34
A one of a kind home made rocket launcher, & yes, it works & it is really fun to shoot! lol, well, it's actually my Fiance's. He made it himself.#35
glasswork done by me ig#36
Rainbow shiny Charizard BOII#37
A plush flamingo wearing a (plastic) pearl necklace.#38
A meter stick I borrowed forever on accident (I forget to turn things in alot) from my robotics teacher.#39
A frog skin purse. It’s actually really cool despite what people always think. He’s called Bert#40
i have always had a fascination and desire to learn about japan, particularly their history and culture. a friend of my mom knew of this and when i was about ten years old he brought back two things. one was an ivory tusk that had a complete tiny village carved on it. you could move the people and animals around the village by the little pegs on the bottom. the shoji walls of the houses opened and closed. the whole thing was probably around 14 to 18 inches long and was held in a frame designed tohold it securely. sadly, ihave no idea what happened to it as one day it was just missing. the other item(s) he brought back was a collection of the seven lucky gods or, actually, 6 gods and one goddess. they are about an inch or so in height and are very detailed, also carved out of ivory. those i still have and consider them very precious to me. now, at the time these were given to me i was completely unaware of the poaching of ivory and the eventual ban on harvesting elephant tusks. so, i know the fact that i have anything out of ivory is rare in itself. i have vacillated between keeping them or getting rid of them because of this but sentimentality has always won. oh, there is one other item that i would love to find out what they are. they are made of metal and have my ancestor's initials on them. very old. they kind of look like an empty spool of thread so i think they may have been a type of button or fastener. i put this info out there in this post just in case someone can tell me what they are.#41
5 versions of a Star Wars prequel-clone!#42
My heart ??#43
An uncut sheet of X-Men cards with the Phoenix card and Cyclops & Jean Grey's wedding card.#44
In a very small box of treasures, I keep six links of my cherished 14k gold box chain bracelet, a gift from my sisters for my 40th birthday (I'll soon be 60). Of course I still have the bracelet; I rarely take it off. The links were removed due to dramatic weight loss.#45
CalJam 2 picture, with Bob Welch and Heart rocking the 300,000 stoned, happy attendees. Taken from above stage, with Polaroid instant camera. I was the only one working the risers that day, so it’s truly one of a kind.#46
A husky shepherd mix#47
I have a plastic figurine of a fox going sking that I received as a gift from Belarus when I was a teenager in the early 90's. Outside of that I have a clock sitting on my desk that was given out in '95 for getting a plant rebuilt in 6 months. I think a couple hundred were given out, not sure how many still exist today, but I have one and it's fantastic condition.#48
A 1954 Royal Quiet De Luxe typewriter. One of my roomates got it for me for my birthday a few years ago. Works perfectly and I managed to find some ink ribbons on amazon! I have plans to write short horror stories with it.#49
Fire Poi#50
2 Mark Twain 1981 solid gold dollar coins. Worth about $2,200 per coin.#51
A human female skeleton. She's a medical training aid from the late 1800's. She sits in an antique Victorian wheelchair in our living room. We named her Lucy.#52
An elephant's femur in my living room, it's over 3 feet tall. My grandfather took away its life with a long bow in Africa in (I think) the early 1960s. He was a professional archer and is in the Archery Hall of Fame.#53
An old glass milk bottle from what used to be my grandparents dairy farm. Depending on size they are worth $250-$400 in my area because they are ‘locally famous’ and I’ve seen people pay over $1000 for one at auction! I’ve needed money several times over the years but not once did I ever consider selling that bottle, it means way more to me than money. Also my grandmothers real double strand pearl(one of my birthstones) necklace that my pap gave to her on their wedding day.#54
A coffee table made by my great uncle from a piece of drift wood he found on a beach when he was a child, he kept it for decades until he became a carpenter and then had a use for it. He gifted it to me when I bought my first house and it's pride of place in our front room...despite not fitting in with the rest of the decor, I absolutely love it!#55
Ooh I know. A signed copy of Stephen King’s Salems Lot :) Found in a charity shop for just $10 :D#56
1920 typewriter and 1930 telephone. The typewriter is so heavy that I have to get a step ladder just to put it on a shelf.#57
A bottle opener that was found in a big that guessing is from the 1800s#58
My dads ashes and urn. He didn’t want a funeral and I’m an only child and his family doesn’t talk to me since he divorced my mom so he’s on my shelf. I talk to him when I miss him. It’s comforting to me.#59
An amalgamation of bugs. Pretty much its a bunch of taxidermy bug pieces making one an interesting creature.#60
Probably these Taco Bell in-store signs from 1995 for the "new" double layer taco featuring young Shaquille O'Neal and Hakeem Olajuwon from the NBA. Wish I could add a picture of them. They says "Hakeem likes the SOFT layer!" "Shaq likes the CRUNCHY layer!" And both men are wearing bowties, suspenders and striped beanies with propellers on top.#61
My dad's regimental tie pin from 1954, Lord Starathcona's Horseguard, now a tank regiment. Turns out the nephew of a coworker was a member of the same regiment going to Afghanistan. I sent him a little package to take with him that contained my dad's tie pin for good luck. The deal was that he had to come back and give it back to me himself. It now sits in my dad's special windowbox. To Afghanistan and back.#62
My great grandfather's wood headstone#63
Some of the my forest was recently protected, due to it being pretty much untouched, never been farmed or logged. So I own a part of a national park.#64
Sculptures of a Solomon Island Coastal Chief and a Chinese Medicine Man, created during the WPA and sent around the nation to schools in order to educate Americans on other nationalities and cultures. Donated to me by the Bowers Museum when they were eliminating parts of their collection. There were dozens of these, but only there two were mostly intact and Inwood condition.#65
Two bars of soap from the last batch that my late Grandmother made on the old wood stove in her backyard, where she had been making it for nearly fifty years.#66
I inherited a rather cool collection of vintage cameras from my photographer grandfather. Many over a century old. Many others ranging from the 40s to the 80s.They are all in amazing condition.
#67
Windows AXIM pocket PC(2003)
#68
Both my great grandfather(ww2) and my grandfathers(Vietnam) dog tags#69
A sister as amazing and supportive as mine :)Luv ya sis!
#70
A hand-knit Sock Monkey and an ALSO hand-knit Humpty Dumpty, the former of which has a removable knit hat and scarf, all of which were made by my dear great-aunt. The only problem is that I know other people have this, because she made a sock monkey and Humpty Dumpty for my siblings too, one for each.#71
A purse - the UK sort - celebrating the diamond anniversary of Queen Victoria (1897). Beautiful cream leather with deep red silk lined interior.#72
An Iraqi Army operations map that I found in a bunker in Iraq during Desert Storm#73
Not technically mine, but my mom has a collection of over 100 nativity sets from all around the world that come out at Christmastime. One of them is a tree ornament that I think my great-great-grandmother owned, or maybe just my great-grandmother, from the Great Depression era. It’s cardboard and plaster and has only lasted this long because it stays in a box for most of the year. There’s also nativities made from painted goatskin, banana leaves, ebony wood, tin, stained glass, clay, stone, reeds, and of course a bunch in plastic. We used to have like 150, but trimmed down a bit over the years.The rarest thing I have would have to be either the 1909 copy of the Arabian Nights that I found for free at the library, or a naturally heart-shaped red stone from a beach somewhere.
#74
I inherited a human tooth (a canine) with attached solid gold implant hook to affix it in place.#75
A nuns self flagellation whip that looks like a mini mace.#76
I have my grandfather's AEF dogtags from WW1. Also have his Purple Heart.#77
A carved coconut head with seashell earrings. It was my grandfather's and dates from before 1940. It's one of a kind (though I've seen similar ones on occasion). Wish I could find a picture! It's in storage at the moment...#78
A small olive wood box purchased in Jerusalem in 1896, with a sepia print of the Mosque of Omar forming the underside of the lid, and containing among other things a circular piece of white clay approximately the size of an old shilling purporting to be a drop of milk from Mary’s breast, purchased outside the Grotto of Milk in Bethlehem in the same year.#79
Buddha statue made of gold from Thailand! My dad got it for me a looooong time ago when he went#80
4 accusations of arson at 14 years of age and 3 trials of which i was proved innocent#81
A silicon boule.#82
My tiny china cat from the 1960s that's white, blue eyes, kinda light brown ears, feet and half of back.#83
2 salt glazed ink bottles made in England in the early 1800's. I contacted a professor of antiques. He said the only other one like mine ever known to exist was found in the attic of Abraham Lincoln's law office, before he became president. They are so rare that in the past 20yrs I have had them no one has been able to give me a value for them.#84
I have the original keys to a hotel on The Rock of Gibraltar.#85
Like, the sparkliest guitar in the world. I really wanna paint it though because i really want a nightmare before Christmas design on it lol#86
I own a painting of six dragons cooking soup#87
2 Matrix “Obsessive Object” books. 1999.I have #2. Mixed black & white, and hand colored images printed from the original website on mixed hand made papers. Hard back.
And #3. The original script, magazine articles, and An article by Richard Corliss about The Matrix, cyberpunk and higher math. Soft bound.
#1 was the first version of #2. I made it for a friend who was later annoyed that #2 was even better.
#88
A square of al capones floor that my mum took from cuba when they were nocking his house down.#89
I have this cool painting that can be seen two different ways: an elephant or a bear looking backwards. Idk I just think it’s cool.#90
A nuns flagellation whip that looks like mini mace.#91
a rock with the word "blessed" and flowers carved into it.#92
A bunch of original, 1st edition Pokemon cards (encased and in mint condition) - TCG, Jungle, Fossil, Team Rocket, etc., some rare Pokemon toys and promos, that are now mostly otherwise long gone from the mass market output.#93
A buuuuunch of my old art. I know I gave some friends and family a few drawings, but 99% of the stuff that didn’t get thrown away is with me.#94
An Eddie Bauer watch that my dad bought for himself when he was like 13 or something (roughly 1984). He has replaced the battery and got a new band for it. It’s a good watch, I like the color. A nice royal blue with stainless steel and some gold color (doubt it’s actually real gold). Tells me the data too, which is very useful because I can never remember what the number data is, and with Covid, still get the days mixed up.#95
A cat skull (I hope) that my father and I found in the woods(near family) so we were walking and we found a spine and thought it was a snake at first but then we thought a cat got hit. No. Family's dog got to it (it was fair because the dog is fenced in) so yea. I say the story bc I know someone else probably has a cat skull but not the way we acquired it ?#96
this ceramic puffer fish. he’s blue and named squidward.#97
An ATM Machine#98
Well a few things. My cats ashes, my cats paw and nose print, my dogs paw print. I also have a stuffed lion cub from a zoo in PA. I got him when I was really young and I don’t believe he’s made anymore. I’ve slept with him since I got him. His name is Leo.#99
A cent's worth of solid gold, that looks like a gold cent.I don't even live in a country where we use cents!
#100
A small glass CocaCola bottle tossed away during World War 2.#101
I have a quite unique edition of the book Psyche by Louis Couperus from 1897, the inside is third editon but the cover is from the first edition which has some stunning Art Nouveau artwork by Jan Toorop. I love it so much!Psyche has been my favourite story for 15-20 years now and I was so stoked when I found one with the first edition cover on the market. If you like Greek myths and dark fairytales this is a must read by the way!