Week One: Treasures
In my few quiet moments, I’ve mused of late, that I am, and must always have been, a treasure seeker (and a treasure finder!). I only now, at 52 and a half, realize this about myself.
I have been reading (and writing) of late, about compulsive hoarding, a topic that fascinates me. I recognize hoarding tendencies in myself in the same way we see ourselves in the personality types we study when we take psychology classes in school. Hopefully I’ll never cross that “line” into the type of hoarding I’ve been studying, but I do definitely get a thrill from the “find”. (I think hoarders get an equal thrill from “having” and that I don’t share to any great degree, thankfully so.)
When the Real Man and I were dating, twenty-six years ago, I recall telling him I felt as if I’d been hunting gold in a barren land, sweating and excavating and working hard, only to find tiny nuggets here and there, deeply buried. He seemed, to me then as well as now, like a great big heap of gold lying out beside the highway for anyone to take … and for some God given reason, only I had the eyes to see that particular golden treasure.
For our twenty fifth anniversary this past week, this dear man gave me something I have wished for for many years … a really nice metal detector! It differentiates between different kinds of metals, goes ten inches into the ground, is water proof, and has both a prospecting mode (for raw minerals) and a treasure mode (for coins and jewelry).
Above are some of my “finds” from the past week.
If nothing else, I’m ridding my under-yard of excess junk and being my own mole, lol. Last night I found this, not five inches down, ten feet from my front door:
Horseshoe
I’ve had my share of horses through the years, but do not recall one ever losing a shoe at my front door, lol. I wonder about the noble steed to whom this shoe once belonged!
The treasure seeking theme continues, as today I was up before dawn, awaiting the arrival of a friend with whom I went on a treasure seeking adventure of a totally different sort, but one with no less thrill:
Yardsaling!
These were my finds:
- One coat tree (to replace the one that broke under the weight of our coats last winter)
- One nice, unmarked, unscented 8×10 rug in the perfect colors for my back porch
- One Holmes climate care air treatment system that (as needed) cleans the air, ionizes and moisturizes the air, unused
- One beautiful navy blue Brooks Brother’s Suit that seemingly is unworn in the exact size of one of my older sons
- One 3 and 1/2 foot in diameter brass tray (brass is at $5.00 a pound right now, this weighs over eight pounds) … I will use it as a lawn table, probably on top of a giant clay pot
- One cherry red corduroy Eddie Bauer shirt in my size, looks brand new
- One pair of Dearfoam slippers in my size, brand new
- Four beautiful votive candle holders (more summer lawn ornaments) with candles, never used
- Grass skirt and lei, never opened (don’t ask, lol)
- One new looking African themed tote bag
- One copy of My Utmost for His Highest devotional
- Seven one inch notebook binders for transferring my dog records from file folders to clear plastic sleeves (a binder per dog)
- wooden cigar boxes of various sizes and shapes (these I will fill with fudge and brownies and cookies and wrap up at Christmas as gifts instead of metal tins)
- Two glass food storage containers with soft rubber/plastic lids … like new
- Six soft and new looking stuffed animals without beads, plastic eyes or squeakers (so the dogs will be less likely to destuff them)
- One beautifully upholstered window seat cushion which has instantly become my new “most favorite” dog bed
- One drink huggie with a doggie on it and the words, “God Bless America” … new
- One insulated carrier small enough to hold my two glass water bottles that I fill and refill for when I go dogging
- Several other small and insignificant little finds that I cannot remember right now.
Here’s a photo:
Yardsale Treasures
Money spent? $35.00. Treasures indeed abound!!!
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