"Life Used" Items

[Greenbaumer]

We've seen everyone's game used stuff, but how about "life used". Last year I purchased this and thought it was an interesting coversation piece, something funny to own. Anyone else own anything similar.

Dwight Howard's Costco Card

[harpt]

Great topic.

It seems that everyone around here (Green Bay) owns an item or two that used to belong to Ray Nitchke. They had his estate sale awhile back and people around here have not only his packer related stuff, but also his family pictures, golf clubs, everyday clothing, cuff links, etc etc etc. It's crazy.

[russyurk]

It's good to see that Dwight Howard is a frugal shopper!

[godwulf]

Does golf qualify as part of life? Not so sure about that...but I am very fond of my three Matt Williams golf bags.

[LWMM]

Does golf qualify as part of life? Not so sure about that...but I am very fond of my three Matt Williams golf bags.

Bores me to death, personally.

[casmith12]

Since we are on the topic of life used and golf, I have a Golf Club membership card that belonged to Joe DiMaggio. My sister bought it for me as a birthday gift 8 years ago.

[Utopian2630]

Great topic,

On the 'life used' front. I have a few items.

Some I display....

Honus Wagner's telephone ( a personal favorite)
Honus Wagner's framed newspaper from 1907 that hung in his den talking about when Exposition Park closed. It features some very cool articles and a nice character of him.
Framed postcards from Honus to his wife from the early 1900's talking about different road stories and baseball.

Some items I wear...

Various articles of clothing from Derek Lee (some nice cashmere sweaters and a very cool custom leather jacket).

And some I use....

Tommy Lee's tour-used drumset from the Generation Swine tour (which is signed on the bass drum). I use this as a gigging drumkit which is always a conversation topic considering the bass drum is 28"!!

[Shipp_96]

Hard to catalog this one, but when I was a young man, they made the movie Slapshot in my Great Uncle's hometown of Johnstown, PA. It was actually shot inside the stadium that still exists there, The War Memorial.

Well, long story short, but that van Paul drives around in the movie? That was my Uncle Joe's van. He kept it and those God awful ugly curtains they added for another decade, because Paul Newman drove his van!

[godwulf]

Hard to catalog this one, but when I was a young man, they made the movie Slapshot in my Great Uncle's hometown of Johnstown, PA. It was actually shot inside the stadium that still exists there, The War Memorial.

Well, long story short, but that van Paul drives around in the movie? That was my Uncle Joe's van. He kept it and those God awful ugly curtains they added for another decade, because Paul Newman drove his van!

Wow, that's like a whole new category of stuff: things of yours that a celebrity used!

On the subject of vehicles, did anybody see the movie Switchback? Danny Glover drives a Cadillac, the interior of which is completely covered in porn photos. No, I don't have the car, unfortunately, but I do have the license plate from it. And the license plate off the van that Stallone drove in Rocky Balboa.

Back to life-used items, though, a while back, I bought Steve Finley's 2006 SF Giants laminated parking pass, and the guy I got it from mentioned that he'd gotten it at a yard sale that Finley had. That's a yard sale I wish I'd have known about; I'd have driven to San Diego just for that, and I'm sure I'd have collected a great many "life-used" items from it.

[harpt]

That post reminds me of a little item I picked up at Bill Schroeder's (former Packer's receiver) rummage sale a few years ago. It's a golf shirt that he got for playing in Mike Webster's golf tourny.

Webster, of course is a Wisconsin and Pittsburgh Steeler great. The shirt has a cartoon picture (stiched) of Mike and says something like "Iron Mike's Golf Tournament."

So, it's "life Used" by Schroader, but I think of it as a Mike Webster item.