Good evening everybody! This is AIfos coming to you alive from... You know, this is normally the bit where I'd list off a contextually appropriate location, but I'm talking about junk that's 20 years old, and I don't have a good enough memory to remember enough about these things to do that bit, so let's just get to the topic at hand!
I was talking with a buddy the other day about one of my favorite book series as a kid, only to realize that the books I was talking about--and still owned--were 20 years old, which, that was kind of fun to think about. These dusty old kid's books were some of the oldest things in my room! So, I thought it'd be fun to see what old knickknacks and baubles the rest of you nerds have.
Let's talk about old stuff!
[b][u]Tl;dr? Here's my point![/b][/u]
That post was really short, and if you need a tl;dr you should really work on your attention span, but regardless, tell me about old stuff you've got!
My answer:
[spoiler]Now, I don't have anything passed down through my family or whatever, so for me it's a four way tie of things from my childhood. I doubt it's an actual tie, but it's not like I remember which of these I got first!
1. My old Starscream action figure, from Transformers: Cybertron. Loved Transformers as a li'l Aifos, and of course I really liked the edgy ones like Starscream. I had a bunch of other Transformers, but Starscream's the only one I managed to hold onto this entire time. One of his arms is broken and I, of course, do not have his Cyber Key anymore, but he's actually in surprisingly good condition given how long I've had him.
2. My collection of Gamecube games. Got a bunch of 'em, and I still have a Wii to play them on, even! Unfortunately, my Gamecube controllers are all in pretty poor condition, so playing any of them is a bit of a pain, but it [i]is[/i] still possible, and I still play some Kirby Air Ride every now and then. Which, of course, will probably no longer be the case in a month, because Kirby Air Riders hype!
3. My Pokémon cards! Never actually played the game properly, but me and my sister would use them like action figures. Have a whole bucket full of these guys, and some of them are around 20 years old. I didn't use card sleeves back then, and I don't have a binder, so they're probably not in the best condition, but even so, it's neat I still have them! Back when I was a li'l Aifos I was a boring, uncultured swine and my favorite card was Dark Charmeleon. Thankfully, as I got older, I realized Mawile was the best Pokémon.
4. And finally, those books I mentioned! My favorite book series when I was a li'l Aifos was the Spiderwick Chronicles, and I still have the first 7 books! I never actually finished the 7th, and as such never picked up the 8th, but li'l me did quite love these books. I've considered rereading them on a few occasions to see if they still hold up, but honestly it would probably be best to buy new copies if I was going to do that. These books definitely show their age!
As a fun side note, most of you know that I [url=https://www.bungie.net/en/Forums/Post/262897198?sort=0&page=0]am a published author[/url], and in [url=https://www.bungie.net/en/Forums/Post/264502161?sort=0&page=0]my second book[/url] the main character's name is Mallory, which is apparently the name of the older sister that I may or may not have had a crush on as a kid in Spiderwick. The funny part is that this is a total coincidence--I got the name Mallory from a totally different source!
Anyway, as I mentioned, all of this stuff is 20 years old, which is pretty fun if you ask me! This stuff is probably older than some of you people on this forum![/spoiler]
But that's all for now folks, jambuhbye!
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3 RepliesI have an original Sega. Nintendo. Coleco Huge 1985 transformer collection.
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13 RepliesI have a musket ball somewhere from at least a couple hundred years ago
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3 RepliesI collect meteorites so they are mostly from the formation of the solar system so about 4.5 billion years old .
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1 ReplyI used to have two Spinosaurus teeth as well as a small megalodon tooth. Other than that, I can't think of anything.
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1 ReplyWe are all stardust! And so is our stuff! At that point the difference is so insignificant as to be irrelevant!
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3 RepliesEdited by Speaker: 10/29/2025 1:18:34 AMI have a big leather-bound and gilded Bible meant for a reading stand that was gifted to my great great aunt in 1886. Its a real family treasure; the lithographic prints inside are still covered in the original tissue paper and except for weathering on the cover and spine, the pages are in pristine condition, and it's one of my most prized possessions. I'll send you some pictures sometime- even if you dont appreciate the religious Iconography- theres just something that feels artisanal about it that you just cant find anywhere nowadays.
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8 RepliesI have 2 antique clocks. I'm not sure about their history so I don't know exactly how old they are. I also came to own a lion skull that used to be displayed at a natural History museum. I'm not sure how old that is either.
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5 RepliesMy great great grandpa's bullet from ww2.
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1 ReplyOff the top of my head, I got my stuffed animal Puppy. That is both its name and type. I think it’s custom? Regardless, been with me forever, and it will be until one of us dies. Also have a Halo 2 collectors edition case that’s beat to hell. Think we got it used at a GameStop. We also have a big Multicade cabinet with a bunch of old arcade games like Mr. Doo and Galatica on it.
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1 ReplyEdited by Panzer I: 10/28/2025 1:04:01 AMI have a WWI-era "journal" containing army division with descriptions and insignias, including a photo of either my great grandfather or great-great grandfather I presume before he went off to war. The book itself is WWI-era, but I believe the photo is much older, likely my great grandfather. Side note, that guy got a medal specifically for hitting 15 headshots with a submachine gun in the Pacific theater, and was also deployed in the African theater. Edit, the photo is much newer than the book, and of a different great-grandfather, on the other side of my family. Photo was taken in 1945, book was sold in 1920 for a whopping 1.00$, back when it was called The World War.
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1 ReplyMy antique chickering piano. 200 years+ but that probably doesn’t count seeing as it’s my family’s. I think the oldest thing I’ve bought was a copy of « black beauty » printed in 1900
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1 ReplyMegalodon Tooth
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4 RepliesMy wife.
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5 RepliesSony Walkman. Telephone Operator box. 1889 Belgium Mauser [spoiler] rifle saw action in use of ally forces in WW1, later rifle was captured and converted to 8mm German Mauser, rifle was in service for WW1. [i]Etat Belge, Birmingham[/i] stamped into receiver. [/spoiler] 1877 I. Hollis and Sons 10ga. Double-Barrel Blackpowder Shotgun.
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6 RepliesMy rickety body. 😞
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1 ReplyI come from a family of pack rats, we've got so much old stuff it's not even funny, I honestly wish I could get rid of some of it. One of my favorites was reading an old school book from my grandmother, in the front it had a list of the Presidents that ended with "Andrew Jackson, 1829-" We've also got an old bible box from the 1700s, really beautiful, rustic, obviously hand made and hand painted. At this point, by volume, we probably own more old stuff than new. 😅 Sad(ish) thing is, just because something's old doesn't mean it's worth very much. The old school book I mentioned sells for, like, twenty dollars on eBay.
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a lost tennoCarry the eternal flame… - old
32 year old unopened Coca Cola bottle