What’s a household item that reminds you of your grandma’s house?

Grandma’s large baking bowl. She used it mostly for making bread. It went to Mum, now I have it. I also have a small ladle of hers that she used to serve up trifle and a picture that my Grandad bought and hung above their fireplace for many years before it went to Mum and then to me. It could do with a good clean, really, as it is stained with smoke and nicotine, but I’m not sure where to take it to have it done properly as I don’t want it to be damaged by the cleaning process.

The fruit bushes I planted in my garden always remind me of my paternal Granny. Every Spring she would get excited about making the first gooseberry tart and blackcurrant tart of the year, and redcurrant jelly.
I have a very large meat plate that was hers and that comes out at Christmas.
I often think about my Grandpa when I am gardening as he would let me 'help' from being just a toddler. He would let me 'dig' along side him, and let me roast gooseberries, stuck onto the end of a long stick over his bonfires. Happy days!

spare button boxes! I used to sort through them

I have my Grandma’s aspidistra. It used to stand in a Chinese pot in her front window until someone smashed the window and stole the pot. The plant must be about 100 years old now. Grandma was born in 1874 and I’ve had it for 50 years.

A metal roller gadget to turn freshly picked mint leaves into mint sauce by crushing them and adding vinegar.

Not an object, but Lux flakes washing powder. I loved the smell.

I agree about the plastic bottles from liquid soaps etc. I do try my upmost to re use them. I do usually use them for houseplants and plant cuttings in the garden.

Her twin tub washing machine filled by a hose attached to the tap in the bathroom

Pears soap

Never knew either Grandma only one Grandad and what I can recall is only his huge cast iron pan he used on the open fire and his clay pipe. He'd be 145 now.

A vase of sweet peas from the garden. The fragrance still takes me back to those days….

I have a charcoal sketch of my grandad's dog, Jack. Grandad was a chauffeur & the young son of the family drew his dog & framed it for him, it's always been on my wall.
My other family, I remember the music box on the dresser. It had ballerinas & think it played Greensleeves.

My maternal grandma used to have real farmhouse butter in a proper glass butter dish. I loved my paternal grandma's button tin and now have my own.

A Butter curler - only used when someone was coming for tea!

My Gma lived with us all my childhood . I have her cookery book , engagement ring and photos of her with my grandad who died before I was born .

I have my Granny’s wedding china but if I’m honest it lives in a cupboard because it’s hideous!

My Dear Grandfather's chair that he sat in every day when he came to live with us. He was blind. Loved him very much.
Made by Ercol in burgundy. I was so upset when it was given away with no thought to my request to have it for my home. I was 7 when he died of cancer. I sat by his bedside at the hospital until his last few hours. RIP Grandpa. 🙏🏻💐

I have my Gran’s mangle as a garden feature ❤️

A barometer, not sure what happened to it, Granny used to tap it as she walked past. She lived in a cottage next to the sea and was a keen observer of the shipping and friends with locals who fished.

I have a plate from a dolls’ tea set that belonged to my grandmother. It is white with a gilt edge, and patterned with sprigs of purple lilac. There used to be a few other pieces of this set, a cup and saucer, a milk jug, but somehow they have all disappeared into the mists of time.

I still have a necklace of Whitby jet from grandma.

At glass rolling pin that has water inside it…

My maternal GM lived in Yorkshire and we were in Oxford so we didn't visit often. My only memory at the house is of tea bags pegged on the washing line to be dried and re-used!

My GF liked beach-combing on Scarborough sea-front for fire wood, and I remember seeing him with a wooden fire surround balanced over his shoulder while he cycled home!

Yes, a mangle outside the back door. In use every monday.

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Brass ornaments my DH insists on keeping so I leave him to get the polishing done. A bar of soap in a soap dish that needs cleaning horrible outdated stuff. I prefer to use liquid soap it's far more hygienic in my opinion.

But think of the plastic containers, all chucked away.

Crikey, I think of the cheap little bar of soap at primary school, in an outside wash house, that classes of little girls all used.

We all survived!