ACTION REQUIRED: Post a picture of one of your coolest/favorite possessions in this thread. Bonus sats for context.
Repost so we can all see some cool stuff.
Discussion
Caught and pinned myself 🤞🏼
That's cool is the bottom one a dragonfly or a type of butterfly 🦋?
Cicada!
Cool Fren 🌞 I wonder if that's one of those 17 year #cicadas or a regular one like we have each summer in #Chicagoland
Hmmmm I wonder!
Here's a link from the #Chicago #Botanic #Garden about the recent emergence of the 17 year #Cicadas
https://www.chicagobotanic.org/plantinfo/periodical_cicada_17_year
The chain was included with the purchase. 
Citadel view
Cupping therapy and acupuncture set
Helping to heal the nature one cup at a time.
My great, great grandfathers wedding ring.
Richard Vatcher, my mother's, mother's, father's father's ring.
Back before they outlawed gold and made everyone participate in the diamond scam
Theres a PBS Documentary called the Diamond Deception discussing this.. I tried to buy it but you cant find a legal copy anywhere. (Last I looked anyway)
Maternal Nan's paternal Granddad's ring. Not sure that's any clearer but still a nice heirloom 💜
Yes, that's another way of putting it 😂
no thnx FBI 🫂
This is one of my favorite things currently
I'm too cheap to cover my backyard in bermuda but I want it to be prevalent because it repairs itself and requires little water but makes for a nice turf for sports
My solution is planting these bermuda plugs, watering them and then harvesting and planting plugs throughout the backyard... It's my little bermuda factory
OK I'll play. This was my Father's pre engagement gift to my Mum. They met in the Merchant navy and he got her this silver letter opener, which I still use. Less and less frequently nowadays... 
Pictured is a wooden practice katana I made using nothing but hand tools, a 2x4x48 piece of oak, a piece of plate aluminum, a piece of 2” aluminum bar stock, and leather. 33 years ago when I was only 21. Every piece was hand cut, filed, shaped and sanded for days. A jeweller inscribed the butt plate for me with the kanji symbol and engraved the year 1992 and the word “Niten” on the tsuba. Then I painted the kanji symbols along both sides of the “blade”. Prior to assembly, the entire wooden length including the handle was coated with 10 applications of linseed oil. Then 12 coats of Diamond Kote varathane. The handle is the exact length from my inner elbow to my hand. The blade is the exact length of my inseam. This piece still looks exactly the way it did when it was completed. I hope it is here long after I am gone.
At the time I was obsessed with martial arts and Japanese history.
Miyamoto Musashi’s own account in The Book of Five Rings mentions that he fought his first duel at age 13. According to traditional stories, this was against a samurai named Arima Kihei of the Shinto-ryu school.
Musashi used a wooden practice sword (a bokken) in that duel, while Arima wielded a real blade. Musashi struck him down and killed him, marking his first victory, and his first killing, at just 13 years old.
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Favorite watch #watchstr
Looks like a solid watch ⌚ Fren 🌞
Why is this one your favorite?
This is basically the last Rolex that isn’t fancy/luxury. It’s a true tool watch. Which is what made the brand famous originally before they became luxury status symbols. This is the kind of watch you bash around while playing with the kids and ding and scratch it to hell. Then look back on every mark 50 years later as proof of a life well lived. Then your grandson gets it and it reminds him of your life and all the time you spent wearing it. It’s a good watch.
A $10,000 watch you bash around and scratch to hell?
Tell me you have too much bitcoin without telling me.
Good rule of thumb with watches. If you can’t scratch it up you can’t afford it.
Thank you. I'm seriosuly considering buying one. I've never thought of handing them down to my grandkids. That's a great viewpoint.
My platinum wedding ring, for obvious reasons. 😊
I like how much gravity it contains too.
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Still one of my favourite pieces I've created 💙 thank you for sharing it 💙🎉
Great idea for a thread!
Damn I can’t zap you back. Will try again later
Homemade Arcade Machine running Speedball 2. I'm yet to complete it, although I'm pretty sure I did back when I was 10. Fatal Justice will face Justice again one day......
A Japanese fan I got as a gift one time from my uncle. 
This set of 4 hand thrown goblets I got at a thrift store, we like to drink wine out of them while eating dinner by candle light… feels very lord of the rings-esque
This was given to me by a 90+ year old Native American Medicine Man and another 90+ year old Native American woman who everyone calls “Momma”.
It took them a month to make and they steadfastly refused any return gifts.
Medicine Man is the one who gave me my name. Momma declared that I am a “warrior”, which I have come to understand via Sitting Bull’s definition of a warrior.
The bowl is made of a deer antler because the tribe self identifies as “the deer people”.
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This was passed down to me from my grandfather, and I wouldn’t trade it for anything.
What a great keepsake and it caused me to reflect. I have not one item from any grandparent on either side. I find that incredibly sad on a personal level but all I can do is think of hopefully having grandkids one day and gifting them something of importance to me. Connection between past, present and future is underrated.
Beautifully said 🙏 That connection across generations is truly priceless. I’m sure your future grandkids will treasure whatever you choose to pass down.
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Artwork I bought in Japan, created with the ukiyo-e woodblock printing technique. Kameido’s Tenjin shrine is the subject, dedicated to a god of scholarship. Utagawa Hiroshige printed it as part of a series titled “One Hundred Famous Views of Edo”.
Ésto es lo más valioso
Peter and Wendy by J. M. Barrie was published in 1911 by Hodder & Stoughton (first edition with colored illustrations).
This emf device I got recently, just love looking at the designs on it and spacing out lol
Great idea for a post, lots of interesting items so far! 
Here is my tractor.
It's a 1980 Ford 4610. My great grandpa bought it new. He died before I was born and the tractor passed to my grandpa. He used it while I was growing up. He taught me to drive it about age 13 to 14.
Then Grandpa upgraded to a newer tractor with a cab and the old Ford was sold to my dad sometime during my high school years. I drove it to school once for FFA week and took a few of the girls in my class for rides around the parking lot.
I was borrowing the tractor when I was starting up my own farm and it caught fire in my shop, and burned up the wiring, battery, instrument panel, and steering column. Dad got the insurance payout and bought a different tractor.
I paid the salvage cost to keep the old tractor and we spent the following winter totally rebuilding it, reworked the engine, gaskets, injectors etc. Had the alternator, fuel pump, radiator, clutch, and starter all rebuilt. New tires, new paint job, new wiring harness and instrument panel, and turned some new shifter knobs on the lathe. Now it's ready for about three more generations to enjoy.
Nice! I need to share a couple of my classic tractors. I have an older Ford like yours from around the same year, with a bucket on the front pulling a Goossen Versa-vac to collect leaves from around the property. I have a '77 with forks on the front, another front loader with a backhoe, one with a rear box blade, and even a '66 with a snow plow on the front. They all still run like a champ and put in a lot of work!
Here is our 1968 Ford 3000 pulling a Goossen Versa-Vac.
I dont own shit :(
Boom!!! My biceps at 53! 💥💪
https://blossom.primal.net/ca298d211ef5632940ad1862af92ffd043dd0a050ff02b050caadae43cf8eb17.mov
Astro-Compass MK II
Used by aircraft flying in arctic regions where magnetic compasses don’t work. With a watch and an almanac, you can point this thing at the sun, moon, or bright stars to get your true heading and set the heading indicator on the aircraft. I’ve used it for surveying and mapping out things on my property. It’s a cool piece of historic tech.
good thread 
its the TI version. i did not pay full price
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World class Djembe, I've traveled with it all over the USA.
Maple burl with epoxy finish.
Just tuned up ready for an event on sept 17th.
TFW you find out your Internet friend is a fed
I built this guitar for myself, themed on a trip to Africa I went on. My favorite build as of yet.
Headstock
My Nana’s coffee mug. Use it every morning and am reminded of her.
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My nook, best $80 I ever spent, going strong for the better part of 15 years.
Happy Pepe
That’s my family’s hands on too and my grandfathers as the roots (day that he passed)
REVAMPED IPOD 5.5 GEN FROM THE EARLY 2000'S
BRINGS ME BACK TO MY YOUTH, MINIMALIST, AND DECENTRALIZED LIKE BITCOIN..
PURE NOSTALGIA AND I OWN THE CONTENT.. MY LITTLE GIRLS LOVE LISTENING 🎧 TO IT AND BRINGS A SMILE TO MY FACE 😌
My biltong slicer.
Grandmas necklace collection!
A terrifying class III 450nm 0.5 watt laser.
I have these goggles that block out the correct frequency (in theory), but I don't trust the cheap Chinese laser that it isn't noisy. I tried it out and while I'm not blind, I still wonder what I was thinking when I ordered it. I guess I bought it because I could.
If you get a green one (~500nm) you can use it as a pointer to show stars in the sky to others.
Okay I'll show you this, my cheap travel buddy
From 1984, the first two ever issues of “Conan” in Norway.
What? Not gonna doxx my family here 😂
Hier Andy Maier, grüß Dich Volker. Bist nicht mehr auf X aktiv? Habe Dir vor einer Woche per DM was nettes gesendet. Liebe Grüße!
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My only analogue note taking app plus stylus aka fountain pen and leather sketch/journal. I also have an A4, not leather bound yet.
The small leather one I take with me everywhere, jot down all ideas/drawings for new architecture projects. It is from paperrepublic, Viena.
Nap is a word in Hungarian with multiple meanings:
1. It means the Sun, our celestial furnace of heat and vitality
2. It also means day
3. It also means the first part of “journal” - journal in Hungarian it translates to daily notes -> “napló”
My bicycle is my most treasured possession, as it has already accompanied me to more than 100 countries.”
A nice stroll down the rabbit hole 🐇
My axe
Upgrade that heatsink to an El mirage from nostr:nprofile1qqs9qv7z07y2e78j0q2gxqcn2796qer8fwz378mrlzzxk2dztmuhtuspz4mhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejqzrthwden5te0dehhxtnvdakqpth64d
Thanks for the info! I’ve been looking for a better cooling system for my 601 it runs kinda hot and I have to under-volt it.
Ring of Favor and Protection in 14k Gold. This is a replica of a ring from the original Dark Souls. I commissioned it from a jewler online.
My favorite things are little souvenirs I get when I travel because they bring back memories I made. I got this little cat in Taiwan. It’s solar powered and I used double sided tape to attach it to the dash in my truck. Technically these cats originated in Japan but you see them a lot in Taiwan, too.
Nice thread.
People have some cool stuff
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This is the bullet pulled out of my side in 2004 in Iraq. It’s still in the little pee sample cup the doctor handed it to me in and still has my dried blood on it, never washed it. Beautifully disgusting
Cheers!
wow amazing !
This was a gift from my parents for my 40th birthday.
It shows the enormity of fractals in the universe.
I love this, what a thoughtful gift from your parents.
#GM. 2 months ago I got a bunch of folks to create my best note. There's some REALLY cool stuff in there.