Round Ups r/AskUK

How old is your oldest thing? – 17 possessions that have an impressive number of years on the clock

10.

‘A proper manky toy mouse my parents bought me from Ikea when I was seven (I’m 43 now). He’s called Cheesy and I still love him’
-schmoovebaby

11.

‘I have a t-shirt I got when I was 19. I’m 56 now and I still wear it. Somehow the design printed on the front is still there and less faded than many much newer shirts I’ve had.’
-No-Permission8050

12.

‘I have a fossilised Megalodon tooth that is around 18 millions years old’
-fractals83

13.

‘I’ve got two used artillery shells from WW1 in my house.

My great grandfather carved some markings on them during some downtime in the trenches.

He signed up to the army in 1916, so they could be as much as 110 years old.’
-h00dman

14.

‘I have a pair of Crocs that are legally old enough to drive (bought 2009)’
-ans-myonul

15.

‘I have the hair from my first haircut.’
-Dry-Plant69

16.

‘My keyring fob is a brass meccano wheel I believe I got for my 4th birthday. So 54 years ago.

When I first got keys as a teen I strung a keyring through the grommet holes.’
-xeroksuk

17.

‘I guess it’s my birth certificate. It looks like it was in the lost Ark or something on parchment paper and if you didn’t see the date on it, you would think I’d been dead for 200 years.’
-bodelia

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