I moved a week ago and I’ve been unpacking and arranging my schtuff this week. One of the “dusters”* I’m proudly displaying on a shelf is grampa’s old hip. He had his real one replaced when I was in high school. The surgeons did a crappy job, so a few years later his first fake hip was replaced in Rochester. Those guys gave him his first hip as a souvenier. When we were going through his stuff after his death my family wanted to throw it out (HEATHENS!) so I inherited it.
I have his first hip next to a silver-plate cow paperweight, a Corey Koskie bobblehead doll, and a piece of marble emblazoned with “My cow died so i don’t need your bull!”.
What kind of weird stuff do you have lying around?
*Duster - Syn. bauble; tchotchke; item of ugly sentimental value one cannot give away; curio; piece of crap; memento; objet d’art.
I have an alligator vertibrae, a turtle tailbone, assorted dinosaur bones and fragments, a few jaws (deer, fox, and buffalo) and some horse teeth displayed on various shelves around the living room (the 'gator bone is sitting on the monitor right now). Oh, and a few ‘scrape-them-out-yourself’ fish fossils embedded in rock. Still working on those: only small parts of the critters are showing, so I don’t know how many total I have.
Come to think of it, my squirrel skull is missing.
There’s a monkey carved out of a coconut that says “Hawaii” on it sitting on my dresser.
are you sure it’s not a moose? monkeys dont come from hawaii.
I have my old hip around here somewhere.Just the cup part.
It was only in a month.
In 11 days they are going to do the other hip. I hope they just have to operate once.
As far as your question goes not really much in the" really wierd" or" oh yuck" department.Except if you check out my daughters room. Liable to find anything there.
We live in the country with several farm animals so there are farm animal meds n stuff townies wouldn’t consider normal.Such as a kit to put ear tags in newborn calves.Its on the back porch waiting for the last calf of the season.A ear tattoo kit for rabbits. Stuff like that.
I have all four wisdom teeth (intact) plus another molar that had to be extracted. the molar had a gold crown on it; no way I was letting the dentist keep that. (Granted, there’s not much else he can do with it, either, but I paid for it.)
I’d love to have a necklace made…
We’ve had a few threads on ‘What weird stuff do you have in your house?’ and ‘Who has the strangest house?’. While there has never been an official ranking, I feel I place somewhere in the top ten.
Sticking to things dead or medical
A bat (my guess is big brown) in a small jar of formaldehyde. A girlfriend gave it to me during a fight. It was at that moment that I knew we’d be getting back together.
A small preserved alligator head. My sister got it for me on a trip to New Orleans.
Several fossilized sharks teeth.
A glass eye set in a leather belt buckle. This is not cheap plastic. Due to the quality, size, and style, I’m convinced this was originally made as a prosthetic. Either the patient found it uncomfortable and made a buckle out of it, or the patient’s heirs inherited the eye and made the buckle.
Two colored contacts. A friend was getting rid of them, and I aksed if I could have them for use in a project. I still haven’t decided on how best to use them, so they sit in water in a small, transparent tupperware container.
My Uncle Max’s dentures. These were old plates that he’d kept because they contained gold. My cousin thought I might want them to use in a project or Halloween costume.
With the eye and the dentures, I sometimes get the urge to make a wicked snowman.
I have my father’s foot in my closet. He’s dead now, so he doesn’t need it anymore.
I wish I had a chunk 'o relative sitting on my shelf…