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By *irtyGirl OP Woman
over a year ago
Edinburgh |
I know material stuff isn't that important but we all have lots of it.
I suspect I have more than one random odd thing in my flat but I'll start with a pipe cabinet complete with pipes and pipe cleaners circa
War time. 
What's the oddest thing you own?
(Mrs ddc... I'm not talking Mr ddc... that's for a different thread).  |
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By *adybee77Woman
over a year ago
MAMOBA, miles and miles of bugger all (Aberdeenshire) |
I have a noddy weeble I was given a long time ago (I failed a few exams in 6th year) and a friend at the time gave it to me to say never give up.
I still have it now, some 20 odd years on. |
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Oh!
I know!
A friend *made* me a personalised deck of playing cards because I made some flippant remark about her not putting enough effort in to a birthday card the previous year.
Those are wonderful  |
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By *irtyGirl OP Woman
over a year ago
Edinburgh |
"I have an old cat hooter that I bought for 12 quid at Camden Market and then carted it home on the sleeper train with a convex mirror I found in the street. I love other people's old junk. "
CAR hooter!  |
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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago
Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound |
"I have an old cat hooter that I bought for 12 quid at Camden Market and then carted it home on the sleeper train with a convex mirror I found in the street. I love other people's old junk.
CAR hooter! "
Phew! I wondered what a cat hooter might be.
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By *irtyGirl OP Woman
over a year ago
Edinburgh |
"You're all about haves and don't haves today OP. I see a theme  "
I'm thinking out loud. It'll be utter drivel by midnight, stick around!
I have a bit of a collection of old fashioned clocks too. Only one doesn't work but I don't wind them up cause they tick too loud. |
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"You're all about haves and don't haves today OP. I see a theme
I'm thinking out loud. It'll be utter drivel by midnight, stick around!
I have a bit of a collection of old fashioned clocks too. Only one doesn't work but I don't wind them up cause they tick too loud. "
I would love to come see your house it sounds so !lovely and cozy.
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I do have a bag of my hair in the garage, from the days when I was a gorgeous young rock god (LOL please laugh with me , not at me), I cut it off when work became a reality and kept it "just in case". it's now a fire risk |
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By *irtyGirl OP Woman
over a year ago
Edinburgh |
"You're all about haves and don't haves today OP. I see a theme
I'm thinking out loud. It'll be utter drivel by midnight, stick around!
I have a bit of a collection of old fashioned clocks too. Only one doesn't work but I don't wind them up cause they tick too loud. I would love to come see your house it sounds so !lovely and cozy.
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Awww... thanks lady. Cosy is the one word pretty much everyone uses when they visit me. I like clutter, it's organised clutter and nothing matches. It's quirky but I love it. |
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My Granddads Burnett from the 1st world war used to tell me stories about killing Germans which none of then were true but could listen to them all day when a child my Grammar used to scorn at him and tell him off |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I'm really struggling, I don't have a lot of "stuff" as I hate clutter. Probably the aerial photograph of my own house from 1980, found that in the loft and quite liked it |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I have an old cat hooter that I bought for 12 quid at Camden Market and then carted it home on the sleeper train with a convex mirror I found in the street. I love other people's old junk.
CAR hooter! "
That's a shame - love the idea of a cat hooter
I've got an original stormtrooper costume from The Empire Strikes Back, sadly too small for me to wear  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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My X who died brought me a very ugly Toby jug he saw in a junk shop because he thought it looked like him. It's the ugliest thing I have ever seen so lives in a box under the bed. |
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By *irtyGirl OP Woman
over a year ago
Edinburgh |
"I've got a piece of marble that I prised from the floor of the Porta Aurea in Istandbul (was Constantinople).
I have a fancy that emperors, or possibly their horses, have trodden on it. "
See I do that!! I love old stuff with history and I buy a lot from the junkyard. I just imagine the stories they tell. If I don't know it, I make it up. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"A little trinket box with all my baby teeth in that my mother kept!! Anyone else's mother do this? Xx "
No, I throw my kids ones out, they freak me out too much even when I'm the tooth fairy. They go in an envelope under the pillow so I don't touch them lol x |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I have quite a lot of antiquey stuff from when I had a Victorian cottage all stored away in the loft ranging from things for the fireplace to cutlery.
My most treasured oldest possession I have is my mums 1950/60's Lerose dress she had a lot of great jewellery from that era too  |
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By *igeiaWoman
over a year ago
Bristol |
I have all sorts of odd stuff knocking around my house. Just in my kitchen I have a giant plastic lobster, a full set of test tubes in a wooden stand, a conical flask and a laboratory pestle and mortar, a 1950's soda siphon, a meat hook and a pair of old police issue handcuffs. The really weird shit tends to end up in the study though. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I have a shilling coin holder on my keyring. I don;t have any shillings, though
-Courtney"
I have saved every pre decimal coin, and defunct coin , since I was small. And every foreign. Coin I have ever had
I believe I have some shillings lol
I also have a 50 million German marks note |
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"I have a shilling coin holder on my keyring. I don;t have any shillings, though
-Courtney
I have saved every pre decimal coin, and defunct coin , since I was small. And every foreign. Coin I have ever had
I believe I have some shillings lol
I also have a 50 million German marks note "
I have framed some German stamps from the hyperinflation period (1922-23):
100 Marks
400 Marks
500,000 Marks
And the last would have been 200 million Marks but by the time it had been printed it had lost 10% and has been over stamped with 220 million.
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I've got a 100 billion dollar bill from Zimbabwe's hyperinflation period somewhere that I used for nawti things... The largest denomination banknote ever produced.
When it was printed you couldn't buy a can of Coke with it. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I have a shilling coin holder on my keyring. I don;t have any shillings, though
-Courtney
I have saved every pre decimal coin, and defunct coin , since I was small. And every foreign. Coin I have ever had
I believe I have some shillings lol
I also have a 50 million German marks note
I have framed some German stamps from the hyperinflation period (1922-23):
100 Marks
400 Marks
500,000 Marks
And the last would have been 200 million Marks but by the time it had been printed it had lost 10% and has been over stamped with 220 million.
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I've got a 100 billion dollar bill from Zimbabwe's hyperinflation period somewhere that I used for nawti things... The largest denomination banknote ever produced.
When it was printed you couldn't buy a can of Coke with it. "
I'll buy the Zimbabwean note off you for when I go there, what's it worth, a penny? |
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By *rsIdiotWoman
over a year ago
Bedworth |
I've got an Ashford traditional spinning wheel. It just sits here gathering dust, I haven't used it for a couple of years........ Reminds me that I must buy some fleece and start spinning again, I used to really enjoy it. |
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A bit of a long one
Have hanging on my wall a 250 year old wind up clock given to me by my grandmother before she died
After many years in a box at my parents, last Christmas I carried it half way across the world and finally hang it in my house in the uk
Never worked, mechanism would die within 1/2 hour
Last July, as I was working in my office at the top of the house and it starts to ring 11 o'clock and carried on working, ringing the hour and half hour all day,
Rang my parents and yep, it was grandmothers anniversary of her death.
Scared me shitless but also reassuring to know she knows where I am
How Glastonbury is that? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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It's not particularly odd but it is cool, a signed letter and set of keys sent to my great grandfather from Harry Houdini. My dad has a pretty old sword too somewhere. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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My teddy bear joey (named after a certain member of a boy and) he's 34 years old and stays on my bed...well not when it's in action obviously I don't want to freak him out! (The bear not the meet) |
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By *uxom redCouple
over a year ago
Shrewsbury |
"My great grandma's wedding ring I wear every day
Why is that odd? I have jewelry from old/deceased family that I wear and treasure.
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It's not my dyslexia kicked in and read the title as oldest not oddest |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"A 1962 Fender Stratocaster.
Sweeeeeet "
I have a '64, '68, 76 and several more from the 80's and 90's.
Several Telecasters, an SG an '84 Kramer Beretta a very rare Gibson MIII and a load that I've built myself. |
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By *igeiaWoman
over a year ago
Bristol |
"A 1962 Fender Stratocaster.
Sweeeeeet
I have a '64, '68, 76 and several more from the 80's and 90's.
Several Telecasters, an SG an '84 Kramer Beretta a very rare Gibson MIII and a load that I've built myself."
I'm a sucker for a Gibson 335. And it has to be a red one. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"A 1962 Fender Stratocaster.
Sweeeeeet
I have a '64, '68, 76 and several more from the 80's and 90's.
Several Telecasters, an SG an '84 Kramer Beretta a very rare Gibson MIII and a load that I've built myself.
I'm a sucker for a Gibson 335. And it has to be a red one."
My dad has an ES335, one of the stereo ones. I've done a lot of work getting the electrics right but it's a good guitar now. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"A 1962 Fender Stratocaster.
Sweeeeeet
I have a '64, '68, 76 and several more from the 80's and 90's.
Several Telecasters, an SG an '84 Kramer Beretta a very rare Gibson MIII and a load that I've built myself.
I'm a sucker for a Gibson 335. And it has to be a red one.
My dad has an ES335, one of the stereo ones. I've done a lot of work getting the electrics right but it's a good guitar now."
Why red specifically? |
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By *igeiaWoman
over a year ago
Bristol |
"A 1962 Fender Stratocaster.
Sweeeeeet
I have a '64, '68, 76 and several more from the 80's and 90's.
Several Telecasters, an SG an '84 Kramer Beretta a very rare Gibson MIII and a load that I've built myself.
I'm a sucker for a Gibson 335. And it has to be a red one.
My dad has an ES335, one of the stereo ones. I've done a lot of work getting the electrics right but it's a good guitar now.
Why red specifically?"
It just looks it's prettiest in red. I like a solid body guitar in sunburst or black but the only 335 I've played was a red one and I fell a little bit in love. |
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I have a 'Tat collection' two wall-mounted cases of dreadful tourist toot bought from around the world for less than a fiver.
The idea was to find the most awful thing you could and then they've all been catalogued and labeled like a museum exhibit. Lol
Highlights include:-
* Bright green plastic statue of liberty snow globe
* Osama bin Laden nesting dolls
* teeny Pope John Paul II in half a blue plastic bell
* some gray pottery thing from Madrid, don't even know what it is...
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"Fuck...
Errmmm...
I use a Masai spear head to poke my fire
You still have a coal fire? 
That in itself should win the thread "
Yes, and I showed my 6 year old girl how to clean, lay and light a fire this afternoon. It's lovely and toasty down there |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I know material stuff isn't that important but we all have lots of it.
I suspect I have more than one random odd thing in my flat but I'll start with a pipe cabinet complete with pipes and pipe cleaners circa
War time.
What's the oddest thing you own?
(Mrs ddc... I'm not talking Mr ddc... that's for a different thread). "
I own a beer bottle signed by members of the red dwarf cast |
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Ah!
A small bottle of laudanum, Victorian, mounted, framed and labeled in a shadow box outside my bedroom door.
There's a wall of shadow boxes containing various different substances...
And one person in this thread has seen them.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Sorry everyone, I've skipped everything while I've been seeing what Diamond Joe remembers next.
I have a pile of Chinese Death Currency: fake notes of high denominations which they use to put in with the deceased.
Apart from that it's clothing, because I don't collect stuff.
I have an Italian Bull leather belt, chosen by selecting the belt in the shop which made the best "thwack" noise.
I've also got a pair of doc martens inlaid with English silk. I didn't even know English silk existed. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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grew up with a shrunken head in a cabinet,i used to brush out, and put hairclips in his hair...got sold years ago, but still have some amazing photos of grandparents in weird places....my grandmother having tea with the last queen of burma is a pretty odd! |
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By *ENGUYMan
over a year ago
Hull |
The older ones amongst us will recall how cinemas used to have display slides in frames in their entrance lobbies, advertising the current film; I possess a full set of a Walt Disney film from the early 60's. Seemingly, they are worth hundreds of £'s.
I have a set of Transport related magazines from only the early 80's, from Issue #1 onwards, now worth a fortune!
Plus, one of the early Computers, the type you plugged into your TV, with cassettes with various games, programmes etc, all played on the supplied keyboard.
Sell them? No, my nest egg for the future! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"A little trinket box with all my baby teeth in that my mother kept!! Anyone else's mother do this? Xx "
I've got all my kids teeth in my jewellery box. I have no idea why I'm keeping them though |
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By *irtyGirl OP Woman
over a year ago
Edinburgh |
"Lol... I've got a 1960s French typewriter... Try writing on *that*... The French are so pernickety they refuse to do QWERTY "
Haha! Mine is a 1930 vintage imperial. I love my manual typewriter but I don't use it often enough. Typing old school letters rocks! |
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"Lol... I've got a 1960s French typewriter... Try writing on *that*... The French are so pernickety they refuse to do QWERTY
Haha! Mine is a 1930 vintage imperial. I love my manual typewriter but I don't use it often enough. Typing old school letters rocks! "
Ohhhh!
*Love* the sounds of that! |
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I was at a party in LA, a bit d*unk, shooting my mouth off as I sometimes do, this time about American foreign policy in the Middle East for the last 60 years, their support for Israel &c &c &c and if you thought about it you might possibly understand who the 9/11 attacks occurred.
Well that went down like a fart in a space suit :/
The host of the party said, "Stop right there. I've got something for you."
Went away and came back with a package and said "I want you to have this."
I unwrapped brown paper and newspaper and bubble wrap, right down to an A4 clip frame containing grey dust, grit, I dunno.
"I was in New York on the night of the attacks and we went down and past police lines and I collected this out of the air and I want you to have it."
Well that shut me up.
Grisly.
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What's the oddest thing you own?
(Mrs ddc... I'm not talking Mr ddc... that's for a different thread). "
I think I can do better than my best beloved (odd? )
He's kept the piece of glass that lodged itself in his ankle 25 or so years ago that the doc refused to do anything about. It eventually made its way (last year) to the surface for self removal.
Mrs DDC
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By *irtyGirl OP Woman
over a year ago
Edinburgh |
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What's the oddest thing you own?
(Mrs ddc... I'm not talking Mr ddc... that's for a different thread).
I think I can do better than my best beloved (odd? )
He's kept the piece of glass that lodged itself in his ankle 25 or so years ago that the doc refused to do anything about. It eventually made its way (last year) to the surface for self removal.
Mrs DDC
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Jesus Christ you win!
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By *irtyGirl OP Woman
over a year ago
Edinburgh |
"Mine is much tamer (although I'm not proud )
A piece of Lands End from a visit in 70's when I was a girl.
Mrs DDC"
I have a jar of stones and pebbles that I pick up from places I visit. I write the place and the date on the back and keep them. Someone brought me back a piece of Mount Everest so there's a little piece of rock from
Base camp in my living room. |
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"Mine is much tamer (although I'm not proud )
A piece of Lands End from a visit in 70's when I was a girl.
Mrs DDC
I have a jar of stones and pebbles that I pick up from places I visit. I write the place and the date on the back and keep them. Someone brought me back a piece of Mount Everest so there's a little piece of rock from
Base camp in my living room. "
We must get our rocks together sometime.
Mrs DDC |
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By *irtyGirl OP Woman
over a year ago
Edinburgh |
"Mine is much tamer (although I'm not proud )
A piece of Lands End from a visit in 70's when I was a girl.
Mrs DDC
I have a jar of stones and pebbles that I pick up from places I visit. I write the place and the date on the back and keep them. Someone brought me back a piece of Mount Everest so there's a little piece of rock from
Base camp in my living room.
We must get our rocks together sometime.
Mrs DDC"
Won't Mr ddc feel left out though? I mean glass isn't quite as cool as rocks now is it? Even if it fell out of his ankle... that's in a little category of odd all by itself! |
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"Ah!
A small bottle of laudanum, Victorian, mounted, framed and labeled in a shadow box outside my bedroom door.
There's a wall of shadow boxes containing various different substances...
And one person in this thread has seen them.
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I have and it's a beautiful wall
And bedroom
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I kept my foreskin after my circumsicion and had it made into a tiny purse. I still take it shopping as if I give it a rub it turns into a shopping bag. I'm not paying 5 fookin pence for a bag! |
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"I kept my foreskin after my circumsicion and had it made into a tiny purse. I still take it shopping as if I give it a rub it turns into a shopping bag. I'm not paying 5 fookin pence for a bag! "
That's absolutely vile |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Not necessarily weird but treasured items are a Ghurka Kukri knife that my uncle was given when he fought alongside them in the army. His Para beret when he was in the 2 Para regiment and a hand coloured photo he had done for my grandmother when he was figgting overseas during the Suez crisis. Treasured items as he was like a second father to me and I miss the crazy old dude. |
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"A little trinket box with all my baby teeth in that my mother kept!! Anyone else's mother do this? Xx "
I have all my boys teeth in my jewellery box.
I don't think I have any odd stuff as such unless you count my cd collection |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I have an ELephants tooth it's sat so long on the window sill it's gradually shrunk
And a wade kelly Pogo figure which i bought for 20pence at a jumble when i was 8 because i tbought it was sweet ,it's worth about £250 now never look at it in a box somewhere in the loft |
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