What do you nick-nacks say about you ?

I also do not have a mantle but on the dresser in the hallway I have 2 fancy oil lamps, a crochet doily, 6 purple bottles with lights in them, candles, a container of toothpicks and 3 dragons
So I am not sure what that says about me

Vase from Russia, soapstone figurine from china, wooden elephant carving from India, memories of our travels. Plus a clock the kids gave us for our silver wedding - next year it's golden!

Oh oops!

Not aimed at you Oopsadaisy3! Oops as in oops I forgot something!

Three potted plants, a Mother's Day card, a carved wooden box with various useful bits and pieces in it (nail clippers, emery boards, tweezers etc.) - and a lovely bronze stag ornament that I kept out after Christmas.

Cat ornament, bottle clock, Rubik puzzle, Chinese puzzle box, 2 Whitby lucky ducks, 3 photos in frames.

and a whole lot of dust

Don’t know what it says really, I just love antiques and anything beautiful.

A metronome, 2 glass Wedgewood candlestick holders, 2 sitting cats, clock, ceramic silver model of DH holding DGS1's hand, 2 Mother's Day cards (DS self isolating with symptoms), ornament of grandparents with male and female child gazing at them.
Hearth - toy garage and Little Tykes farm.

Who? Me ? What carriage clock blue

Oops, forgot the carriage clock!

Er, I must confess that my lack of a lot of knick knacks as such just says I’m a thoroughly lazy baggage when it comes to dusting!
Quite a few framed photos of dds and Gdcs, though. And one of our old dog on her very last day with us. ?

Here's mine.
Daffs in a vase.
Dartington glass candlestick with candle.
3 Mothering Sunday cards
Stained glass angel made for me by a friend.
Art Deco style vase
Behind one of the cards is a Greek icon I bought on holiday in Crete.

I have no mantelpiece but my dresser holds many GC photos, candles, Mothers Day cards, a glass dish of polished pebbles, a Sellotape dispenser and a camera. Hidden behind theses items are spare spectacles, a pocket dictionary and a calculator. I also have several weeks worth of dust. Even though staying inside most of the time I still CBA to do housework.

Modern house so no mantelpieces. Elsewhere, hundreds of pots and dozens of pictures. No photos but about 20 albums filled with photos from the last 50 years of holidays and one with happy snaps and pets present and former. My OH prints the photos and then laminates them for the albums. One day, when remembering becomes more difficult, I'll still have them to look at.

My nick nacks say that I must love dusting because there are so many of them.

I don’t.

Our only mantelpiece isn't in the living room. It is in the study, so its contents reflect that.

Airfix model of HMS Belfast, about a dozen old pottery and glass bottles, most retrieved from the bottom of the Thames or dug up in the garden.. cartoon portraits of DH and I, all those little tiny ornaments, some joky, that family give one.

Not your normal mantelpiece collection but not a living room mantelpiece either.

I don't go in for nick-knacks though there was a time when I had cats and people persisted in giving me cat ornaments. Since my poor cats have been deceased for over 20 years, I have gradually given the said ornaments to charity shops. I have my granny's silver plated teapot and sugar bowl. Perhaps my heirs will either take them or sell them.

To answer the original question'what do your nick-nacks say about you?':-
old, tough, grey and battered.

fatgran some lovely objects there. Especially the clock and the figure in the last pic.

A photo of GSx2 and an art deco bronze figure of a lady.

A soldier figurine either side and a clock in the middle, that is all there is supposed to be but Dh has added 2 empty cartridge shells, his car keys and a £20 note that is going into my purse

This is mine. The three blue and white plates are of no value but I am very fond of them and have had them a long time. The Waterford crystal clock was given to us by a friend, now sadly passed away, the photo is of my lovely late sister with toddler DD, and the Eiffel Tower was brought back from Paris by GS on a school trip and before Christmas, when he was over, he asked where it was, so I put it up there. It flashes different colours, and when he comes over, we have to have it on! It must have everlasting batteries! Now, with everything that is going on, and not being able to see him, it will become a little beacon for us.

Modern house, no mantelpiece as such.

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Three of my mantlepieces - note the collection of mobile phones on the last one - OH has NEVER thrown one away.

lemongrove but it is how invitations were referred to, honestly!