Spinning Wheels

Season One
Rumplestiltskin has had his spinning wheel since Baelfire was a child during the Ogre Wars. It appeared in his small home where they lived together and again, later, in the main room of his grand house where he held Belle captive.

Rumplestiltskin is periodically depicted sitting at his wheel and spinning, lost in thought. He claims it helps him forget. When Belle asks him what he was trying to forget he says he forgot, implying that the spinning wheel was indeed effective.

Trivia

 * Featured in the title sequence of Skin Deep.
 * An key element from the original fairytale Rumpelstiltskin. He used the spinning wheel to turn straw into gold. In Skin Deep, Belle remarks that he has spun straw into more gold than he could possibly spend.
 * While he is most often seen spinning on a Great Wheel, the wheel that is present in his cottage during "Desperate Souls" is a Saxony wheel, suggesting that he either has multiple spinning wheels or he exchanged his Saxony wheel for a Great Wheel after obtaining the Dark One's powers.