I’m jealous of Lee’s What is this doing in my house, Monday entry. No fair! She should definitely send those to Florida!
This little toy I’m sharing today has history, or more importantly, memories. This was my grandmother’s and everytime we would visit, we’d pull it out of the blue cabinet and we’d make a huge mess with the chips and the decks of cards stored along with it. Grandma didn’t have a whole lot of toys specifically for her grandchildren. In fact she didn’t have any. We played with her toys – the poker chips, huge jewely boxes of Sarah Coventry, her weird stuffed animals, odd little gadgets that I never understood but was fascinated by – and of course, the rubber/plastic fruit.
The "old fashioned" chips are missing from this but the chip caddy still makes me smile an awful lot – and that’s why this weird thing is in my house – finally! (My brother finally handed it over to me on my last trip to Charleston. Now if he’d give up my secretary…)
Here are links to others playing the game – if you’re playing, feel free to add your link!
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how scandalous that you played with poker chips…at your grandmother’s no less…that’s good you got the little brother to give ’em up!
I can see you taking all of the other kids lunch money playing poker, then convincing them why this is a good thing…
We didn’t actually play poker or cards. We just played WITH the chips and the cards. Huge houses of cards, throwing cards and chips, stacking them all up – stuff like that.
The only gambling ever done with my grandmother was Kings on the Corner when I was much older, for pennies. No chips involved.