do you own anything unusual in your home??

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I have a Chiweenie.

Sylkat

I have my Mom's ashes in a film container. I gave the pendant necklace filled with her ashes to my Dad and the main container we had burried on top of my Aunt/her sister. I kept a little extra and the film container was the only thing I could find at the time to put her in.

I have both my sons' baby teeth and my youngest sons umbilical cord stub and both of their first locks of cut hair.

A couple of old Indian arrowheads.

A small gold unicorn horn that I used to wear when I was little.

A few pieces of Ivory.

I have an old license plate of my grandmother's. It's notable because it reads "QUU 666".

Some of my uncle's possesions, several weapons now that i thought about it :o But my room seems so normal to me, i'm all used to it, i'll post more once i figure out what else is unusual!

for the princely sum of 400 smackers, i am now the proud owner of a somewhat worse for the wear right upper wisdom tooth that is now outside of my mouth and resting in a cup in my bathroom 'til i figure out a way to put it in some kind of display case.

Dear Aunt Blabby, Congratulations on your good fortune; my wisdom tooth saga cost a LOT more than $400.
AND my gum was cut open, the drill was inserted into my gum or jawbone, the teeth were drilled into pieces and the pieces pulled out using a forceps.
The teeth had been badly impacted, only partially rose above the gum line, and, of course, decayed.
And I rather have a phobia of dentists.

Sylkat

thank you for the cold comfort, but [at least] my wallet still hurts anyways, i dread having my lower wisdom teeth worked on, the jaw is always the toughest place for an extraction. did you ask the dentist if you could keep the pieces? a weird question from me, admittedly- but i was thinking a way to snatch utility from the jaws of futility would be for you to take those pieces, prepare them with cleaning and possible tinting in interesting colors, and mounting in a jeweled broach. just a thought. also when they worked on you, did you have laughing gas to ease the discomfort? i used to work as an operating room technician and one of my jobs was to scrub in and assist the dentist/dental therapist in extracting impacted teeth. that made me dread having to be in a similar situation myself.

This (I have a pretty massive Civil Defense collection myself)... And that infant skull I purchased at a school auction. The area high school consolidated and had no need for many items, so they auctioned the items off. I was able to get a set of World Book Encyclopediae as well . Oddly enough, this is also where I got my Geiger counter (school had a Fallout Shelter)

A small pink guitar, as of today

I know this was not directed at me... There's nothing weird about that; I asked to keep the 4 wisdom teeth I had pulled (at once). Two were broken, two were completely intact and a small 1 inch segment of deformed mandible that proved quite useful for jewelry. I have a necklace with every tooth I lost (actually had extracted due to them all being severely impacted) and the jaw segment is in the middle. I need to find where that got put when I moved.

i like that that is extracting utility from the jaws of futility.

A modem, that must be the weirdest thing I have here right now, we haven't had a modem for ten years now. It's actually for a project that I kind of forgot about. If you attach it to a Linux machine and run a program called Minicom you can let it make an irritating sound, I was trying to get it to make real music (after someone mentioned Skrillex sounds like a modem (indeed), I though it would be cool to actually have a musical modem), but I kinda forgot about the project and now it just sits there looking ancient. It's a really old modem, too.

This sounds like a lot of fun! You should lemme know how it turns out. I think I might try to see if I can find a modem lying around myself. doodeeedooburraadeeeadEEEEEadeeadeeeeEEEEEEEEEsssssssssshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhomp

1. I own 2 large Sir Killalot RC models and one large Matilda RC model of Robot Wars of Great Britain.
2. I own a 30lbs RC combat robot which I gettting ready to paint a design on.
3. I own a 1:14th scale CAT RC excavator with real hydraulics.
4. And one LCN4011 heavy duty door closer which I'm also going to paint a design on.

I say these are pretty unusual considering I'm a woman.

Ah, those were the days...

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