18: Antiquing

Needed to get out of the house for a while today and decided to go to an antique mall that I haven’t visited in a while. Here are a few of the things I saw. (Click on an image to scroll through them all.)

My friend Ann in Buffalo recently posted in an IG story about the annual gathering of vintage blow mold Santas in front of her house — 27 of them now!! They’re not as big as the one I saw — those she keeps indoors.

There were more electric frying pan type things than I’d ever noticed before, and way cooler shapes than the utilitarian square one my mom had. Do people use those anymore?

And so many records… LPs, 78s, 45s. I liked Peter Frampton’s face peeking through.

Beanie Babies were HUGE when I worked at my mom’s antique mall. We had a dealer who would run around & buy his limit at all the stores (because there were limits!), then price them on the way to dropping them off in his booth. I remember selling quite a few for $60+ and sometimes even over $100. Thanks to Beanie Babies (and the crazies who collected them), he financed a good chunk of his house.

The knit sweater on the ca. 1961 Playboy cover caught my eye. The martini glass motif! Apparently it was available for purchase in a couple of colors — now vintage.

Besides the little outing to the antique mall (and Walgreen’s), I did some laundry, drained the rain barrel (finally) & turned off the water to the outside faucet. I’ll start packing my suitcases tomorrow. I need two because I’m bringing a bunch of stuff for Ann & Addie — everything from hiking shoes & performance swim trunks, to hair products & sundries, to Golden Grahams cereal & a crunchy peanut butter! And Cheez-its if there’s room.