What is the weirdest thing you own?

[deltablues65]

A phantom of the opera music box that was my Moms, which plays by itself at random times of the day and night without being turned on. And I am afraid to get rid of it

it has a mind of its own!!!!!

 

[mark_j]

Nude photos I recently found of my parents in a box that used to be in my daddy’s dresser drawer before he passed.

I don't know what to do with them.

I found a couple naked prints that my Dad took of my Mom When she was barely 30. Tossed them in a box full of old pictures and haven't seen them since. Kind of like the boxes of slides that my Dad had. He did all of his own developing then and I recall a few risque slides in there. There're still in storage someplace..

 

[welatshaw]

A rather vast collection of pens. I find it difficult to write creatively on the computer, I find i need the feeling of pen on paper. So, back in the days of my misspent youth, I found myself on an unending quest for the perfect point. Had to be ultra fine, no liquid ink that would bleed, comfortable in the hand, and if I started a new story, it required a fresh pen and a new notebook. As you can imagine, I have a heck of a lot of each, notebooks and pens.

 

[mark_j]

A rather vast collection of pens. I find it difficult to write creatively on the computer, I find i need the feeling of pen on paper. So, back in the days of my misspent youth, I found myself on an unending quest for the perfect point. Had to be ultra fine, no liquid ink that would bleed, comfortable in the hand, and if I started a new story, it required a fresh pen and a new notebook. As you can imagine, I have a heck of a lot of each, notebooks and pens.

Did the same for a while. Gave up on it after I collected enough pens that I liked. Gave the rest to my daughter and she took them to her work and had them in a coffee cup that said "Need a pen? Take one.". Got rid of a whole bunch of them probably 30+ in less than two months.

 

[lil_jenni]

I own a 1976 Cadillac El Dorado convertible that I inherited from my Hubby's uncle. In isolation that might not seem weird, but I'm 5' nothing and 110. I look tiny AF driving that monster.

 

[RosevilleCAguy]

I own a 1976 Cadillac El Dorado convertible that I inherited from my Hubby's uncle. In isolation that might not seem weird, but I'm 5' nothing and 110. I look tiny AF driving that monster.

You need to attach horns to the front.

 

[Doodledude]

A piece of a famous WWII sunken ship.

 

[Goldenfinger]

A kidney stone

 

[Wriggle]

A 2 metre tall wooden giraffe

 

[likitisplit]

i use to have a lighter my FIL gave me as a wedding gift. it was a figurine of a man nude made of pewter and in front he was genitaled correctly and quite hung. you simply pushed down on his pointer upper and the flame came out the top of his head' unfortunately one of the famous kitchen drawer catch alls ate him!

 

[Jeb56]

Couple of 500 million year old trilobite fossils.

 

[Wonderer67]

I collect hand blown bottles from the 1800s and very early turn of the century (1900-1905). Used to dig old privys and dumps. Soda and mineral waters, beers, whiskeys, apothecaries and druggists (quack medicine era), Jamaica gingers, other types. Mostly buy and trade these days. It’s an expensive habit.

We have a bottle dump on our farm. Nothing terribly exciting, but some cool old bottles.

A friend of mine who is an excavator brings me by some stuff occasionally. Also nothing too wild, but he did find a few nice old cobalt blue bottles.

 

[Zrosey]

A walrus skull....it was a beach find

 

[Lumiere_Amie]

I have a collection of uranium glass.

 

[PantsAndPencils]

a horse's skull but it's missing the lower jaw

Oh cool!! Have you ever thought of getting the missing portion made, like via 3D printing or something?

 

[PantsAndPencils]

I don’t own it but I bought it as a gift . It was a salt cellar that was used in the 1930’s . It looks like a tea candle holder . You put the salt in the depression . It sat in the table and the diners pinched the salt out of it to put on their food instead of a salt shaker . The cool thing is the glass contains uranium and when exposed to UV light it fluoresces ! View attachment 2300083

Cool!! The uranium part though… it’s cool but also confusing would it still be safe to use, or is it just decor?

 

[PantsAndPencils]

Nude photos I recently found of my parents in a box that used to be in my daddy’s dresser drawer before he passed.

I don't know what to do with them.

Omg I totally feel that. I helped each of my parents move in the past, and I found a bunch of old love letters they exchanged and forgot about, some of it I quickly realized was explicit and stopped reading before I could be scarred for life

They’re long divorced. Neither really care what happens to the letters. *I* sure don’t wanna read my parents’ old intimate stuff. But like… I can’t bring myself to throw it out? I keep thinking that maybe one day I’ll go through and try to sort the regular letters from the saucy ones.

I will say, their correspondence game was on point. They’d write stuff in code for one another to puzzle out, stuff like that to keeping interesting while they were long-distance. So for that reason I do wanna try to keep the regular stuff because they make for really sweet family mementos imo

 

[PantsAndPencils]

I have a 1973 ford mustang modified stock car on my lawn as a lawn ornament.

It was from a local
Speedway.

Aw man that’s so cool!!!

 

[PantsAndPencils]

I have an EXIT sign(bright green/white letters) that's encased in a shadow box frame,with small certificate of authenticity. It certifies that it was used at the Nevada Test Site and is 'radioactive',and warns against removing it from the frame. It's hanging in my living room and when you shut the lights off, it literally glows in the dark!!!!

Ohhh man that’s so fun, I used to be obsessed with glow in the dark as a kid Though I also was always kinda paranoid about radioactivity cause I was too young to understand the science. Thought my glowing t-shirt would put off gamma rays or something

 

[PantsAndPencils]

A rather vast collection of pens. I find it difficult to write creatively on the computer, I find i need the feeling of pen on paper. So, back in the days of my misspent youth, I found myself on an unending quest for the perfect point. Had to be ultra fine, no liquid ink that would bleed, comfortable in the hand, and if I started a new story, it required a fresh pen and a new notebook. As you can imagine, I have a heck of a lot of each, notebooks and pens.

Niceeeee, love me a good pen, though I honestly take whatever I can get. The notebook collecting is relatable too!

I know a friend who would use notebooks for rough drafts then finish stuff up digitally. When they filled a notebook, they’d rip out the insides to recycle the paper, then take the flat cover and add it to their wall. They built up a pretty substantial display that way

 

[PantsAndPencils]

A piece of a famous WWII sunken ship.

…how? And how is it displayed?

 

[PantsAndPencils]

A kidney stone

….yours? Inside you, currently? Or just…around the house?

 

[PantsAndPencils]

A 2 metre tall wooden giraffe

Ooh can you use it practically? Like, I imagine hanging a coat off its snout, or maybe putting my scarves around its neck

 

[Wriggle]

Ooh can you use it practically? Like, I imagine hanging a coat off its snout, or maybe putting my scarves around its neck

Nope.
It's a total folly, bought for me because I prod prezzies and guess them - mostly successfully, too.

I did not guess this one.

 

[PantsAndPencils]

I collect hand blown bottles from the 1800s and very early turn of the century (1900-1905). Used to dig old privys and dumps. Soda and mineral waters, beers, whiskeys, apothecaries and druggists (quack medicine era), Jamaica gingers, other types. Mostly buy and trade these days. It’s an expensive habit.

Interesting!! I’m a “collect to keep” type of person, so the people who trade their stuff seem so… so strange, but like, I mean that as a positive thing. Like, I’m curious about the motivation to do it.

I once spent a few months living with some folks, staying in what they called their “tractor room.” They collected and traded model tractors, and they used this spare room to store them all. Shelves upon shelves of tractors still in their boxes, surrounding me as I slept I couldn’t wrap my head around how they cared enough for these objects to buy so many, but didn’t care enough to be bothered when they gave up one to exchange for another