What's your favourite possession and why? Or more than one item, if you like!

Small wooden mouse - was my grandmother's and is next to my bed to look after me.

I don't think I have one, there are many things I own that I love, but then I tend not to keep things I don't need or like.

I don't think I have one, there are many things I own that I love, but then I tend not to keep things I don't need or like.

TheCatWoman said:

I've moved house so many times,

Me too - I've moved 35 times including rentals. I recently ditched 50% of my books, giving to the library, charity shops and the rest dismembered for recycling. I feel better now my home is less cluttered, so I entirely agree about 'cargo! It is just extra work, dusting and maintaining.

One of the things I love about later Victorian things is the decoration, when did we start to believe the utilitarian shouldn't be beautiful?

I think I've moved house so many times, lost so much stuff, had it taken and/or disrespected, that I try not to have attachments to objects. Learning to let go has been a big lesson, but I can't take it with me when I go and in the end it's just cargo.

That reminds me of William Morris' famous saying, “Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.” [that's why I divorced , because he was neither.]