Stuff that reminds you of your grandpa...

[horseman]

I used to ride around a lot with my grandparents. Little weekend road trips and stuff in a 1970 chevy pickup. My earliest memories are of those trips, and of us climbing a big ole cedar tree when I was about 6 years old out where I grew up to go hunting. He had a 2X6 up there about 15' up that he used to sit on. So, I have two things that I will never get rid of.. The old Gibson scope off of his hunting rifle, and the two old Mexican bells he had dangling from his mirror in all the trucks he used to drive.

[TexasTealHunter]

YOu nailed it with the after shave, my dads dad used that and my moms dad still kickin uses Brute.

[Stoof]

That old antique car smell. I used to love riding around in grandpas old truck. He would get me up at about 5 in the morning and take me to breakfast while I was still in my pj's. No seat belts, sometimes sitting in his lap holding the steering wheel. Good times.

[nimrodajh]

The smell of a Zippo lighter takes me back to sitting in his wood shop, amazed by everything he did. I was pretty sure he could build anything a person could ever need right there in his little shop.

[centex85]

Mine used to smoke me Eye of round for lunch meat in high school. Still kept one packet and keep it in the fridge he would always draw a eye and then a circle around it and package it in butchers paper, and i have his old smoker he used. He loved to smoke meat, and cook on the smoker. Love his co0wboys boots too from Anderson bean and Rio Mercedes. All custom sizes that I'm the only one in the family they fit so still wear them on a daily basis, so he is always with me

[Russ81]

Ol' Milwaukee beer. I swear my paternal grandfather could drink an ocean of that stuff.

Maternal I have a bayonet he brought back from the island campaigns in the Pacific during WWII

[41Chevy]

[BigFoot]

Never really got to know him, but every picture I've seen he has a big ol cigar hanging out of his mouth. And these boxes are all over my grandmas place!

[Patton]

At 89 he still does the crossword puzzle everyday!

My grandpa is in his late 70s but he still does his crossword everyday, in pen, and hits the gym 3 times a weel

[DCT]

Think of mine ever time I save. I use his safety razor.

[BrandonA]

Ice Tea in a Mason Jar

[BrianL]

Snuff jars. We still use them as drinking glasses.

[M.E.B.]

My two grandpas combined. Plug tobacco, beer, Lots of beer, old double barrel shotgun. Wish I had it. Fishing on west beach. Beach house near Sargent, farm in West Columbia on the San Benard River.

Both gone before I could really get to know them as a young man. I just hope that I brought them the pleasure that my grandkids bring me.

[Clint]

My Dad's Dad - "Papa" to me - was born in 1889 and live his entire life in and around Grapeland. To his dying day at age 93 he carried a pocket watch on a gold chain instead of a wristwatch, and never stepped foot outdoors without a hat on his head. I always remember seeing a bottle of this Lucky Tiger Hair Tonic on his dresser. I'm sure a whiff of it would remind me of him.

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I have my grandfather's pocket watch, sweat stained Stetson, and a couple pouches of his Bull Durham tobacco.

He and my grandmother sharecropped a farm within sight of the Circuit of the Americas race track.

I think of them both every time I travel the toll road.

[fishingsetx]

Hershey's chocolate bars, 1911's and Swisher sweets.

He always kept one of the jumbo Hershey's dark chocolate bars at his place on the kitchen bar and I never saw him eat more than one pip off it in a day.

1911's because he was a deputy with the sheriffs office for 12 years and carried a Springfield 1911 as his duty weapon. I still remember watching him tear it down and clean it and the smell off hoppes #9 filling the kitchen. I learned the shoot a pistol with that gun!

He smoked Swisher sweet cigarillos (packaged like cigarettes). Every time I smell someone smoking one, I think of him. They ultimately did him in in 1995 of lung cancer.