Special attachement for objects.

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Do you have a special attachment for an object?
Something you always carry with you in the pocket of your pants or jacket.
An object or item that has meaning.
Name it. Anything.

Or perhaps a special necklace or bracelet. Oh or a Talisman. That would be so cool.
Name it below.
I love to read about it. have nice weekend.

I have many, many items I regard very highly. (More than other people seem to regard their items anyway)
But mostly I treasure:
- my coat
- my 1891 doctor's pocket watch
- my backpack

unfortunately the latter is wearing out. I am dreading the day it breaks.

hey thanks for sharing:) Anything special inside your backpack?

I have a ring on my right ring finger which I've worn for about 16 years. I wouldn't call it an attachment, though. It's just there.
I also laminated my social security card back in 1981 which I still carry around in my wallet. Again, I wouldn't call it an attachment. It's just there.

A piece of rosy quartz I plucked from the river in the Rocky Mountains.

Two pendants with broken 'strings' (I break everything I try to wear like that) - one has a scrabble piece with a symbol important to me painted on, the other is clay and has a dragonfly - which also has special significance. Actually, their meanings are multi-layered and lengthy to describe - but they are also private. I share with few the meaning to me or I feel like it loses the personal significance.

Pennies I find on the ground.

5 buttons - in rich peacock colors.

A stone with 2 tree frogs - symbolize my boys.

Wampum - shells once used by NA First Nations as moola.

A pen encased with Blackfoot bead work given to me by a woman who I honor and respect.

An epi-pen.

These things are all in my purse - always with me.

Most people, especially women, have attachments like these, what they like to wear all the time (like jewelly) or carry around in their bags. Some people are more sensitive than others, and like to keep old things as sentimental value, like old things that have been passed down from previous generations, or as a reminder of a loved one who died, etcetera.

I don't really have anything in particular what I carry around with me due to emotional attachment. I just carry these things around because I have to. I wear my ring every day, and I love my watch too. I've been criticised by people before that I should wear more jewelly on my fingers, like a few more rings and bracelets, but I prefer to just have my ring and my watch. That way I can see where they are and they won't be swallowed up by loads of other bits all over my hands. It's highly unnecessary.

I have a very old teddy bear that I would never part with. Well, it's only as old as me, but it looks about 100 years old. When I first had it as a baby, it was covered in lovely thick pink fur. Now it's lost about 80 percent of it's fur all over it's body (especially on the head, the back and the tummy), and the fur it has got has gone all hard-ish. It has about 5 or 6 holes in different part of it's body, and often I have to push it's fluff back in from time to time because it oozes out. And the fluff itself has done all lumpy too, it's not soft and cotton-wool like. Also it's missing an eye (thanks to my brother ), but it is still sentimental, and I keep it next to me in bed and it lives in my bed. Now that is an emotional attachment because it even makes me feel better when I look at it, it seems to have emotion in it's face.

All of my physical possessions are important attachments for me. People are meaningless, only things matter. Things don't hurt me, or plan to hurt me, but people do.

I think that loads of people have attatchments to objects, only in my case its a big contrast to my lack of attatchment to people.
I mean, I like them, (especially my brother and parents), but they're there and I don't particularly need to see them even though I live in a different country. Like general objects I carry around with me I guess. (wallet, keys etc.) They're there and I like them, but nothing more.

Some objects on the other hand I really feel connected to. (backpack, pocket watch, coat) and the connection is stronger, but I have no equivalent connection to humans.

I forgot to mention my fiddle. When I take it out to play everything feels just right. Sometimes I don't have any intention to play but I just pick it up out of habit while I really need to do something else. The connection is really strong, and I guess it helps that my fiddle is my de-stresser. When I have some kind of overload (social, senses, pressure from school), I play and everything falls away. Usually I can't empty my mind and it is constantly buzzing. My fiddle is the only thing I have found so far that can make me focus on 1 thing mentally.

Sorry - went on a fiddle-is-awesome rant there

I see some of you talk about a ring.
I once bought a ring a long time ago with my favorite sister and her boyfriend in a strange city.
I love that ring. I wear it almost everyday. But like you said. It's just there.

I don't wear watches anymore. Like any other jewelry, I break them. I can't stop fiddling with them - rings are tougher but I lose them. I find anything on my hands and wrists is some weird mix of irritating and stimulating.

It's funny how much attachment we can have for a good coat.

My current jacket is only about three or four years old. It's my third main jacket since the early 1970s. I have had a few heavier duty ones that I wore when I had to, but for general everyday wear, only the three jackets.

I had one jacket that I got in the early 1970s that I wore into the mid 1980s.

When that jacket wore out, my mother gave me a jacket that my grandfather had bought in the mid 1960s but never wore. It was absolutely great and I wore it until I bought the current jacket. It was really raggedy by then.

One time in the late 1980s in the Houston suburb I lived in at the time, I stopped at a gas station for gas. While in the gas station, an old guy approached me and asked where I got the jacket because he wanted to go get another one like it. He was disappointed when I told him it was from the 1960s. He said that he had one like in the 1960s and wore it out and he wanted another just like it.

Dear Eric76,
What a wonderful story!

Sylkat

My coat is my shield.

I can't go anywhere without my swiss army knife in my left pocket and my harley davidson folder clipped to my right pocket. I have a magnesium fire starter attached to my keys and a credit card style 'magnifying glass' in my wallet. I carry a torch style lighter even though I don't smoke any more. What's funny is that when I go through security checks, like at the court house, they never bother me about the magnesium fire starter. Guess they've never seen magnesium shavings burning. And no I'm not a pyromaniac. Don't know what it is but fire and steel are comforting. These are some of the objects that cause me stress if I forget to take them with me. I will turn around and come back to get them if I've left the house and realize I forgot to bring them, even if it causes me to be late.

I keep a stuffed blue penguin in my work truck and am attached to my keyring and sunglasses-I hate losing my sunglasses

I have a little stainless steel ankh which I keep in my pocket or my car at all times. I feel as though it brings me luck even though I know that's silly. I also have some little Worry Dolls I like to carry around sometimes. Having them makes me feel like everything will be ok.