Do you have any old objects in your home (besides, husbands, I mean ) that have some historical significance? Let's talk about those things.

I have a handful of things I got when we were going through my grandparents' old place, but I think the neatest by far is a pair of dictionaries:



The top one is Websters Condensed Dictionary from 1884, and the bottom book is a Spanish-English and English-Spanish dictionary from 1913. They both belonged to my great-grandfather (the same one with the boarding house I mentioned earlier) when he came to the US from Spain. I also have the trunk that he brought his belongings over in. We use it for stuffed animals at the moment. I'll bet when he was packing that trunk full of his worldly posessions, he wasn't thinking that his great-great grandsons would be using it for toys nearly 100 years later.

Pretty neat.

Lisa

[edited because I type faster than I spell!]

Lisa Clarke Wife to Neil (4/1/95) Mother to Aidan (2/26/00) & Eamonn (4/4/03) Owner of Polka Dot Creations Keeper of the keys to the Polka Dot Cottage

that my grandmother used when she was in 1st grade in a one room country school house back in the early 1900's (like 1913 or so). I have them in plastic zip-lock bags so they don't fall apart anymore than they already are.

My mom found some of my old toys in her attic and brought them to me last year. Among them was an old Fisher Price school house complete with wooden Little People. I got this for Christmas in 1970 (ok...I'm old!) when I was 5 years old. It still has all the magnetic letters and numbers, and all the playground equipment, but I'm missing one "student." My dd (who is 5) loves playing with it!

My mom wanted to get rid of them in a garage sale when I was a kid, and I wouldn't let her. I was clearly too old for them, but I just couldn't part with them!

Lisa

the wooden people are very valuable because they stopped making them in the early 80's and started making them out of plastic. I could NEVER part with that toy though...and I think it's cool that my dd loves it as much as I did!