Favorite item (other than badge)

[FSUZeta]

i had a beautiful silver bracelet-the links were five pointed crowns and there was a crest dangle. i passed it down to my daughter when she was initiated, and she loves it as much as i do.

[pshsx1]

I have a few favorite things:

- My Big Brother's first set of letters and my first set of letters
- My bid
- Something secret and special that I carry in my wallet
- A glass that I have that is etched with letters and our coat of arms which arrived the day I ended my Sigma program.

[jennyj87]

Probably my bid and my crest necklace

[jessica.lanelle]

I have two favorite items:
I have my bid card and a cross stitched letters, with my name stitched underneath, framed in one of those double frames. I also have a pledge box, decorated in letters, with my pledge sisters' names written on it, that has some secret items that were significant to my pledge period.

[MysticCat]

I posted this in a similar thread (here):

My shingle (hanging on my office wall).

My paddle.

My probationary member (i.e., pledge) hat: a golf hat with ΦΜΑ on the front and the signatures of all my brothers from when I pledged all over it.

My collection of Sinfonian Songbooks -- I have all but the first two editions (1908 and 1914).

If only I knew what happened to my bid card.

[LucyKKG]

I have an engraved Kappa ring that I wear every day. It looks like this:

[KSUViolet06]

I should mention my fave sentimental items:

My chapter has a tradition where the initiated sisters write little notes/letters to the NMs and leave it in that NM's folder at the house. So when she comes for Initiation, she gets to read the folder full of letters that her sisters wrote to her. I kept all my letters and saved them in a box. I read them every now and then.

My other fave item is the candle from my Big Sis revealing. It's one of few sorority items I keep out on display in my apt.

[DGTess]

Thank you for bumping the thread.

At initiation, my big gave me a small plaque, about 2" x 4", on which she had glued a hand-carved anchor with shield.

I lost my big to breast cancer several years ago, but think of her every day when I see that anchor.

[PhoenixAzul]

Being from a local, we don't have quite the choice of paraphenalia that the rest of you do...

I love my bid. We had a really crafty/creative sister who made these awesome "treasure map" style bids for us. It is in a scrapbook with all my pledging/recruitment stuff.

I also love my paddles...my littles did really great jobs.

But I also still have my initiation letters from my big. Again, being local, we have a slightly different set of rules, and one of ours is that we only receive letters after we have initiated, and it is the big's job to buy her little letters. Mine are this awesome blue and gold star pattern. It still fits me great.
-- Second to this is an amazing red hoodie that has little pictures of all of our traditions on the back of it, it was handed down to me from a graduating senior, and it is such a shame that it is HUGE on me now, like tent style, because I would wear it every single day.

[LucyKKG]

After reading this, I just realized something funny I will never have because of how I became involved in Kappa (joining a local org which became part of Kappa): I never received a bid card to either group! Ha! How weird...

[KSUViolet06]

^^^It's funny you should say that because I KNOW I had to get one (everyone in my chapter had one) but I don't know where it is and couldn't tell you what it looked like. It's not like I pledged a long time ago, either. I have a lot of stuff from my NM period but I don't know where my card is.

[Gusteau]

I had to go home for an orthodontist appointment the Friday after rush week and never received or signed my bid card - I never realized that people took bid cards seriously until I saw that many of my brothers keep them in their Cornerstones.

[littleowl33]

I had a bid card at one point, but I have no idea what happened to it... four moves in four years will do that. It does make me sad, though, because I like to keep EVERYTHING!

Favorite things would be a 3-way tie.

1. My bid day shirt. It's pretty much unwearable at this point because I wore so often in my first semester as a Kappa... the servers at the freshmen cafeteria used to tease me about it! It's not like it's stinky or anything, just faded and worn-looking.

2. A bone china badge box my Big gave me after Initiation. It has pretty blue irises on it and it's personalized with my initials and initiation date.

3. The lavalier my boyfriend gave me. Maybe it doesn't count because it's his letters, not mine, but it's obviously very special to me! It's been a little over a year since my candle-pass (and it's almost our four-year anniversary), and we're still going very strong. So far, so good... no "curse of the lavalier"!