Estate Sales :: Tis' the Season

A .50 cent Vintage Cherry Red Handolier & $1 Green Cheese Grater by Tupperware.

I LOVE ALL THINGS VINTAGE & antique & retro & full of history from another era.  Second, only to my son, is my passion for thrift store finds, garage sale deals, antique store treats and estate sale treasures!  There is just something so beautiful about the way "old stuff" preserves history and tells a story.  The colors, the style, the texture, the smell of so many vintage things, make my heart sing!  I love to do a little (okay a lot) of online window shopping, just staring at all the unique finds that exist on etsy.com, or ebay.com, or Craigslist.  Some of the things I adore are way out of my price range (more than $10), so they exist only as a museum item, curated by me, in my own favorites list, to reference and savor and spill over on another day. 

I went to my first estate sale of the spring season yesterday & it was a goodie, but I felt so weird poking around this late old lady's precious things, with her children & grandchildren sitting there helping.  I've thought about this in previous years, how it feels so strange to go through boxes of someone's stuff that obviously has history & a story and was beloved, not to mention these people (the family of the deceased) are probably grieving, all while they watch you buy their mom's dishes for .25 cents. Sigh.  Hopefully all the people digging through the estate finds will cherish or appreciate the things they buy, as much as I do/will/would.  I'm on a neverending mission, hunt, adventure for mid-century decor, vintage tupperware, vintage pyrex, dishware, Black Americana memorbilia collectibles, children's toys & books, retro Fisher Price items, pots & pans, cool frames and currently, stuff to help me recreate a shabby chic inspired vintage look, in my own suburban totally un-chic modern home bathroom.  To be continued.  I have a vision. 

So, as much as the estate sales can truly be bittersweet, I will continue my journey, respecting the previous owners of the stuff I bring home to live with me.
It does make you realize though, how having too much stuff is so not worth it, so much in the end, it ends up in strangers hands, it's just stuff.  I love trinkets & vintage & antique & history and I cherish the idea that each thing was potentially valued and loved by someone, but I still want to minimize my "stuff o' crap", before I'm ashes to ashes & dust to dust. :)
That being said, I picked up some great tupperware, a package of fun lil vintage napkins & a retro handmade felt birdie ornament at the sale. LOL!

I ♥ Estate Sales & Vintage Tupperware!

My Orange Crush

I have just a teeny tiny obsession with all things vintage. I mostly just window shop online, swooning over etsy goodness & obsessing over things that delight me, but occasionally I'll take the plunge and actually indulge myself on a little something. I could get seriously giddy over things from just about any historic era, love antiques, love vintage cars, vintage ads, vintage fabrics, unique European designed things, kitchenware, furniture, art, you get the picture, but I probably have the biggest passion for mid-century/circa 1940's-60's, the Mad Men (love that show btw) type household goodies. I also have just a teeny tiny obsession with tea, both hot & iced. I drink ice tea pretty much daily. Yowsas! Bright fun accent colors in my kitchen make me smile too! So, naturally I really should treat myself to this fabulous orange vintage tea kettle from the etsy shop Linea72, now shouldn't I?

Polly, put the kettle on?

Yes, please, Polly, put the wondorously unique cheery vintage European orange kettle on, and we'll all have deliriously happy tea.

P.S. We won't mention too loudly here that my husband partner man of the house dude also recently sent me into tea kettle depression when he left the stove burner, with my cute current red kettle sitting on it, on all day when none of us were home, burning it, discoloring it and ruining it's appearance. Luckily though, his wee (moment of dementia) mishap did not burn down our house, and a kettle can be replaced. Rightfully so, I'm due for some replacement tea kettle love real soon.