the only reason G*D lets us choose our friends is because he doesn't allow
us to choose our family, Lee
"Tiger Lily" > wrote in message
...
>I collected a number of things that 'no one else wanted' in 'no uncertain
>terms'. It cost me close to $3K to reupholster grandma's couch and chair.
>Another family member walked into my house and said 'I see kate gets ALL
>the antiques'
>
> ????????? they were given first offer! and she had NOT clue what MY cost
> was, i could have bought some fancy leather lazy-boy recliner sofas for
> what that cost me!
>
> lol
> (and *I* bought the other antiques that were 'assumed' to be
> inherited....... so, i brought out some other 'antiques' that needed
> restoring and told her 'Honey, you can have whichever you want and
> whatever you want, they will take some work to restore, and they won't be
> considered 'antiques' proper as you have restored them)
>
> gotta love family...........
>
> kate
>
> On 12/20/2011 10:41 PM, Storrmmee wrote:
>> that will make a great memory for him, Lee
>> "Tiger > wrote in message
>> ...
>>> On 12/20/2011 1:36 AM, Julie Bove wrote:
>>>> > wrote in message
>>>> ...
>>>>> we haven't decorated much over the years, again too poor when younger
>>>>> and
>>>>> always away, now the cats prevent most decorations as i am a paranoid
>>>>> cat
>>>>> person, Lee
>>>>
>>>> My mother was soooo angry with me when I got my first apartment and my
>>>> first
>>>> tree. There was a place in North Seattle called Chubby and Tubby. Not
>>>> sure
>>>> if they are still there or not. They sold any tree (real, cut) for
>>>> $5.00.
>>>> To get a good one you had to get there early and fight the other
>>>> customers
>>>> for it. I got a huge one! Not only tall but big around. And I was
>>>> able
>>>> to
>>>> fully decorated it. It did help that was working at K Mart at the time
>>>> and
>>>> put in charge of the Trim A Tree department. One year they made me
>>>> dress
>>>> as
>>>> an elf. I can't say that I liked that part too well. But I did have
>>>> the
>>>> advantage of finding all the best ornaments and decorations and
>>>> squirreling
>>>> them away until they went on sale. I also bought a few really nice and
>>>> expensive ones from the now defunct Frederick and Nelson's and Wights.
>>>> I
>>>> still buy at least two ornaments from Wights each year for Angela. I
>>>> have
>>>> an empty ornament storage chest just waiting for when she moves out.
>>>> She
>>>> can take the ones she wants. She collects the ballerina ones and we
>>>> also
>>>> have a lot of cats and other animals.
>>>>
>>>> When my mom saw my tree she flipped out! Said a 19 year old shouldn't
>>>> have
>>>> a fully decorated tree. She even complained to my brother about it. I
>>>> couldn't really understand why she was so upset. Especially since the
>>>> majority of the ornaments on that tree cost me something like 50 to 99
>>>> cents
>>>> per box. And in those days I was making something like $4 an hour.
>>>> There
>>>> were also a lot of cheap candy canes on that tree and things that I
>>>> made.
>>>> I've made a lot of craft things over the years. I also had strands of
>>>> popcorn and cranberries.
>>>>
>>>> However in looking through magazines like The Good Old Days, it would
>>>> appear
>>>> that in the 40's and 50's people just didn't have fully decorated
>>>> trees.
>>>> Perhaps they could only afford say one string of lights or one box of
>>>> ornaments and not even one every year!
>>>>
>>>> I'm sure if she were to see all the ornaments we have now, she would
>>>> flip
>>>> out. Over the years I got rid of all of the plain balls save for a few
>>>> of
>>>> the hand blown glass ones that are see through. They remind me of
>>>> fishing
>>>> floats. I only saved my favorite ones and got rid of all the rest.
>>>> When
>>>> we
>>>> do put up the tree it is a mish mash of things but it is all things
>>>> that
>>>> we
>>>> like.
>>>>
>>>> I can't say that I am much into those matchy matchy trees. That's the
>>>> kind
>>>> my parents used to put up after I was an adult. Their ornaments were
>>>> all
>>>> silver and red and two different styles. That to me has no
>>>> personality.
>>>
>>>
>>> I need to ditch a bunch of Christmas decorations...............
>>> fortuntely
>>> teenlet is closing in on 18
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> i'll cull and sort and i'll share the antiques from his Great
>>> Grandmother
>>> with him as 'gifts' for Christmas when he's on his own
>>>
>>> :/
>>>
>>> they all grow older!
>>>
>>> kate
>>>
>>
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