What is my favorite inanimate object? (don't worry, It's a writing prompt.)

That’s funny, I was going to answer my old lab cross buried in the backyard, but I don’t think that’s what I meant.  So instead, I will say: a little lead figure of a pirate I got in an easter egg back when I was only 8 years old.  Oh, the good old days, when you could still find lead objects stuffed inside candy…