Collecting!

 Early interesting Cars:

 From Jim & Shirley's car collection:

Jim mostly collected Studebakers but he had an Isetta too.

For today: (Most photos from the net)

When I was a kid Uncle Clyde and Aunt Ruby were the only Uncle/Aunt couples that had no children. Maybe that was the reason they were ‘Well-Off’.  They both worked in a cotton mill and Uncle Clyde ran a BIG rural paper route with his truck. (It just hit me, how did he ever take time off (vacations or sicknesses). With hundreds of customers, how do you teach someone your paper route so they can fill in?)

The paper-route is beside the point. When we visited their home mama had to practically make me sit on my hands. Aunt Ruby collected Salt/Pepper shakers. To me there were ‘millions of them’. Light houses, cars, houses, kids, animals you name it there was a shape in that collection. In my mind I remember saying what good are they if you can’t play with them?

I brought that up because there was an Estate sale close to us yesterday. Many nice collections:  guns, giant collections of dolls, ceramics, and wall hangings. I am sure they must have been valuable, each item was priced (using the exaggerated term again) there were MILLIONs of price tags (Priced high). We kept thinking, “WHERE DID THEY STORE THIS STUFF?” It was a nice size home but never enough room to display these collections.

So a few moments ago I applied stamps to two letters we are sending ‘snail mail’; Remember when you had to lick stamps.  At the time I applied the stamps, I had a fleeting thought of the giant (to me) stamp collection I had from all over the world.  It was stolen sometime in the 1960s. I wonder; Did I actually have anything of value?

Now I seem to collect things (just STUFF), and the collection is growing back up in NC (and here! LOL). I am SURE that NOTHING (except the few silver dollars) is worth the time to price it. LOL But eventually someone will have to do it.

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