Weekend Plans Post: Finding Ancient Treasures

We first moved into our house in 2003. That was, like, a million years ago. Our First House and while we were both pretty jazzed about it, I was also irritated as heck. My initial idea for a house was “We’re going to pay $X!” and, as it turns out, we found this one and it was $X+20K. We got it anyway. I spent about a year cursing under my breath when I thought about the price and kicking myself in the butt for getting ripped off.

There were a couple of boxes that got shuffled off to a corner in the various frenzies of getting into the house that got put there but never opened.

Well. We opened one. And we found some stuff that I haven’t seen in a long, long time.

First off:

This is my cummerbund and bowtie from Chamber Singers 1990-1991.

I absolutely understand why I kept it after graduating high school. I sort of understand why I kept it after graduating college. I have no idea why I packed it when I moved out of the house into my first solo apartment.

Here are my rainbow ‘spenders.

These are from the 1970’s. If they weren’t Mork & Mindy ‘spenders, they were Mork & Mindy knockoffs. They were my dad’s and I took them from the cull of his clothing after he passed. I wore them quite regularly in high school. Then I stopped wearing them in the 90’s and by the time I found them again, the semiotics had changed entirely.

Here are my parents’ commemorative bicentennial pewter plates.

There is a set of four in there and a standalone plate. The set of four goes for ~$80 on Ebay. Since I imagine that they sold for something like $17.76 each at the time, I’m seeing that they appreciated about $2 per plate. I am going to give the set to a co-worker without telling him. He’s just going to come in and see the plates and ask “WHAT IN THE HECK ARE THESE?”

I might keep the standalone. You know. For nostalgia and whatnot.

And here is an antique coffee grinder:

This hung on the wall in the kitchen when I was a kid. If you tried to turn the crank it wouldn’t turn. I remember asking my parents about that and them telling me that it was an antique and didn’t work anymore. It’s just art now.

This time, I flipped it over:

See that nut? I loosened it and, suddenly, IT BECAME POSSIBLE TO TURN THE CRANK.

I turned the crank that I wished to turn since the 1970’s!

It was satisfying.

And so, this weekend, I will be doing a bunch of stuff. They’re calling me into work to be part of a major project that has a deadline in two weeks. We’ve got a game night on Saturday night. We’ve got a dinner date with friends up in Denver on Sunday night.

And Monday we’re back to the grind.

So… what’s on your docket?

(Featured image is the ‘spenders. Photo taken by the author.)