Post by minx on Jun 30, 2024 11:26:33 GMT -5
Went to an estate sale yesterday. This was part 1 of 2.
Part 1 was dishes, entertainment dishes (think punchbowls, deviled egg trays, serving platters), then holiday decor.
Not just Christmas, although there was one room of only that and nothing else.
Halloween, Easter, Thanksgiving, Fourth of July along with the generic seasons - placemats with daisies, tablecloths with little suns and sand buckets, wall hangings with fall leaves, ect.
The entire upstairs (three large bedrooms) filled with 6 ft tables of it.
Not the first house I've been in with 4 season decor either. Just made me think of growing up when people did this stuff every season every year.
We were minimalists, so we only did the big 4 - Christmas with all those little electric candles in the windows which were a pain in the ass to plug in at dusk and unplug at bedtime.
Easter - much easier to assemble and take down - tablecloth, placemats and Easter baskets.
Halloween. My mom gave up quickly on this and went with the easy cardboard shit you could tape in the window and toss later.
Then Thanksgiving. Special placemats and table cloths, the turkey platter and a few other things.
And I thought that other than Christmas, we were pretty damn over the top. Who did we think we were with all these trappings, huh?
Then in HS I met families from other towns and realized that my family was a bunch of total losers who couldn't decorate if their damn lives depended on it.
These folks make those HS families look like losers!
Yesterday I got a nice (non-holiday) box - I have to make up a gift basket for the Fredericksburg fair. I also got a nice picture frame, a china mug for the gift basket and a nice little cat gift set that was brand new for the youngest's birthday present.
But I have purchased halloween stuff from these sales in the past year - it's a big event at the resort, and I need to decorate my deck and treat table for the trick-or-treaters and dance party.
And yes, we do have kids who trick or treat since it's a family resort. They dress up like most kids outside of there do, as it's pretty hard to be a naked dino.
The adults have a costume party. Some people do nude costumes, and others do more traditional ones.
Part 1 was dishes, entertainment dishes (think punchbowls, deviled egg trays, serving platters), then holiday decor.
Not just Christmas, although there was one room of only that and nothing else.
Halloween, Easter, Thanksgiving, Fourth of July along with the generic seasons - placemats with daisies, tablecloths with little suns and sand buckets, wall hangings with fall leaves, ect.
The entire upstairs (three large bedrooms) filled with 6 ft tables of it.
Not the first house I've been in with 4 season decor either. Just made me think of growing up when people did this stuff every season every year.
We were minimalists, so we only did the big 4 - Christmas with all those little electric candles in the windows which were a pain in the ass to plug in at dusk and unplug at bedtime.
Easter - much easier to assemble and take down - tablecloth, placemats and Easter baskets.
Halloween. My mom gave up quickly on this and went with the easy cardboard shit you could tape in the window and toss later.
Then Thanksgiving. Special placemats and table cloths, the turkey platter and a few other things.
And I thought that other than Christmas, we were pretty damn over the top. Who did we think we were with all these trappings, huh?
Then in HS I met families from other towns and realized that my family was a bunch of total losers who couldn't decorate if their damn lives depended on it.
These folks make those HS families look like losers!
Yesterday I got a nice (non-holiday) box - I have to make up a gift basket for the Fredericksburg fair. I also got a nice picture frame, a china mug for the gift basket and a nice little cat gift set that was brand new for the youngest's birthday present.
But I have purchased halloween stuff from these sales in the past year - it's a big event at the resort, and I need to decorate my deck and treat table for the trick-or-treaters and dance party.
And yes, we do have kids who trick or treat since it's a family resort. They dress up like most kids outside of there do, as it's pretty hard to be a naked dino.
The adults have a costume party. Some people do nude costumes, and others do more traditional ones.