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Three Favourite Objects

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What are your top 3 favourite objects? That’s what the insurance company, More Than have asked me. What a question, eh? Do I choose all the priceless items and mementos I’ve kept or objects that I use every day like my laptop or phone? What are your favourite objects? A memorable photograph? An heirloom? Something weird and wonderful? Ooh do tell!

After a little thought, my most treasured items are things that actually mean something and that are used, loved and enjoyed regularly. I hate things that are packed away in boxes and not used, even if they do have a past.

My first choice is photographs, and if I cheat ever so slightly, my camera. The two photographs taken above are from my sister’s wedding in New York. One is of my dad towards the end of the day, after a few too many beers, and the second is of my sister, her friends, my mum and I doing the Thriller dance. Those 4 days in New York were some of the happiest days of my life; both parents happy and healthy, a sister full of joy and just married, and myself and the OH having the time of our lives in a city we just adore. I’ll always be thankful for these photographs and I’ll never be sorry for carrying my camera around with me almost every day. I also think it’s really important to print photographs out regularly so you can enjoy them on your walls or in photograph albums. Priceless really.

roller skates

Roller skates! These are a new treasured object and of course I know they can always be replaced but it’s more about what they mean to me than what they are. Firstly, my OH bought me them for Christmas. When he asked me what I’d like, not once did he question me or look at me like a loser. He simply bought them because he knew they would make me happy. And they do. He always supports my silly notions.

As for further meaning, roller skating makes me laugh, makes me a little more fearless (and alive) and is great exercise too. Roller skating at 35 also means I’m finally getting round to filling my life with all the good things I’ve always wanted to do rather than putting things off.

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My third and final treasured object is our film projector. Another object that can always be replaced, and technically isn’t actually mine as I bought it for the OH for Christmas. Ahem.

I was a little wary when buying this as I wasn’t sure whether it was more of a gadget than anything else. Like I said earlier, I like things to be enjoyed not just stuck in a box. I needn’t have worried, it lives in our bedroom on my bedside shelf and we use it all the time. We don’t need a screen for it as it projects perfectly onto our wall and it makes watching films at home that little more special. We’re both film geeks so it’s an absolute treat watching our favourite films on a bigger screen and hearing the projector tick away. It gives me goosebumps!

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What are your three most treasured objects?

Disclosure: Collaborative post.

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