As two people who have been trying for nearly a decade to get rid of everything unnecessary in our lives, it boggles our minds to think about all the new really old stuff that we just acquired in the house and outbuildings next door. My best guesstimate is that 75 percent of the contents is one of three things: scrap metal, glass jars and cardboard boxes. You can't really blame the Depression-era former homeowners for hanging onto valuable materials in case the bottom dropped out again, so we're hoping to find gold buried inside the walls. But we won't tell you if we ever find that.
Most of the contents have made their way to the recycling bin, but the rest we can't quite get ourselves to let go of, just like our predecessors! Some of the better finds we'll keep, some will be sold at an estate sale this fall. It's like our own little time-capsule museum ...more finds will surely follow.
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| super weighty vacuum and collection of clock radios |
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| 1 of 1543 boxes of glass jars |
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| metal inboxes? |
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| wash tub and seeder |
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| awesome old grill, maybe turned into a side table? |
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| rotary dial phone, which I can't figure out how to unplug from the wall. Sophia may otherwise never know what one of these things is! |
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