Are you good at taking care of things?

Ah, the cats! DD1 has had to lower her standards slightly since she left her elegant Edwardian villa in England and moved to a bungalow on stilts in NZ!She says the cats have scratched her leather sofas, one dog chewed the corner of the rug and she herself is in and out all day from the gardens. She is much more relaxed these days! But the Royal Albert is still in frequent use, much admired by her new friends.

Oh yes! And we moved a lot in the first twenty or so years of our marriage. I have a cactus (I really don't like cacti) which DS2 bought me in a Sale of work 38 years ago - it was in a yoghurt pot. It is now big - blooms once a year and lives in the conservatory. It has travelled the length and breadth of the country (including Northern Ireland) and still it flourishes.

I have my grandmother's rose gold locket, in which are pictures of my mother as a baby.

Many more things too, but it would take too long.

I have as few things that I have cherished for many years. However, like your daughter, I firmly believe that there is absolutely no point in having lovely things and not using them. Consequently, some sets of glasses are now slightly depleted and some vases are no longer waterproof, but some other stuff has survived okay. Sofas, on the other hand, haven't a hope in hell with a house full of cats.