I have very many items from my mother (an only child) that mostly only matter to me. Lots of it is furniture.
When my mother’s parents married in 1929, 2 months before the crash, my grandmother was working in a high end furniture store. They moved in with great grandfather, who encouraged he to pick items for the share house. So my bedroom set includes 3 pieces (one of which I had in the refurb shop for a year… stripped of 2 different colors of paint and refinished). Dining room has table, buffet and server. A few small other pieces.
The most special part to me of the dining room furniture is that by the time of my memories, it had been gifted from my mother’s parents (downsizing to a bungalow on Long Island) to my father’s parents. I can recall some special dinners in that dining room.