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GLUE

Today at 6:51 am

I was reading an article about a girl whose parents came from India and gave her an Indian name. She was writing how how she felt as an adult when she fond a key chain in India with her name on it.

As someone else who never sew her name on a key chain until I was an adult, I knew what she was talking about. As someone who had a more unusual Jewish name my name was never on a key chain even in Jewish stores.

Any other fellow key chain sufferer? Did you go to the store and watch your friends and family members find there name on a key chain but you knew your will never be on one?

Ruchel

Today at 6:53 am

Rachel is. My form isn't.

Nowadays you can get custom ones

Last edited by Ruchel on Sun, Dec 01 2024, 7:09 am; edited 1 time in total

amother

Pumpkin

Today at 6:59 am

As a child it felt a bit frustrating.
But now as an adult I couldn't care less even looking back I don't care.

amother

Clover

Today at 7:02 am

My name is Sara and I find my name on keychains even in not jewish stores

amother

DarkOrange

Today at 7:06 am

You tell me, what are my chances?!

Bluma Kayla Shaindel...

amother

SandyBrown

Today at 7:44 am

I totally understand, since I have a hard to find name. On the practical side, putting your name on a keychain seems unwise from a security standpoint.

Busybee5

Today at 7:47 am

amother DarkOrange wrote:

You tell me, what are my chances?!

Bluma Kayla Shaindel...

grace413

Today at 7:47 am

Similar quasi-traumatic event: When I was young there was a popular TV show called Romper Room.

We lived so far out of town, you can't even imagine, very tiny Jewish community. I was called by my Yiddish name but my sister was called by her very popular English name.

So at the end of Romper Room the hostess said "I see this name that name the other name" including my sisters name but obviously never my name.

I was just a little girl but it made me feel very out of place.

amother

Azure

Today at 8:35 am

Only in the Chabad stores...

zaq ↓

Today at 8:53 am

Me too, me too! By now I've outgrown the yearning, but even in young adulthood and of course in childhood, it bothered me that "everyone else" could buy "personalized" trinkets and I couldn't. Even my friends with somewhat uncommon names like Roxanne and Elias could occasionally find them, though not always.

Nowadays of course you can go to companies like Vistaprint and and get your name printed on anything you like--but I no longer have any desire or need to display my name on anything.

theoneandonly

Today at 9:45 am

I knew I would never find my name and it never bothered me.

amother

Razzmatazz

Today at 9:48 am

Esther… so yeah

Iymnok

Today at 9:48 am

theoneandonly wrote:

I knew I would never find my name and it never bothered me.

Me too. I've always loved my unique name. It's very uncommon, but adorned my great-grandmother.

amother

Outerspace

Today at 12:15 pm

My name is Yonina. Ive never seen it ever. But I have many Ys Smile

amother

Emerald

Today at 12:19 pm

It's was the best part of being called Sarah.
I was the only one in my family that could get my name on all my items in all tourist stores.
I had pencils, ruler's, keyrings, bracelet the whole lot of it. LOL

mushkamothers

Today at 12:41 pm

amother Azure wrote:

Only in the Chabad stores...

Not even, not as a kid. No plain Mushka

↑ zaq

Today at 1:18 pm

grace413 wrote:

. Sister! Why didn't I know you to commiserate back then? I kept waiting and waiting for Miss Jackie or Kathy or whatever her name was to say "I see Zaq" and it never happened. She never said my siblings' names, either, but as they were older, they were in school and not watching Romper Room in any case.

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