Imagine
if you will…
It’s
summer – possibly June or July. The weather is warm if not downright hot. The gardens are planted, flowers are blooming,
tomatoes are ripening and there’s a song in your heart and a smile on your face
because you’re planning to attend an amazing vintage event over the weekend to
shop for something specific or perhaps for everything in general (my preferred
method).
With
that in mind, let me ask you this: How
would you feel if you turned a corner at this hypothetical summertime vintage
event and came across something like this?
Please do not attempt to adjust your eyeballs. This photo is blurry.
Or this?
Or this?
I brake for Shiny Brites.
Would
you stop and shop? In July?
Would
you need to put your head between your knees and count to 10 to avoid passing
out?
(No, wait, that’s not you. That’s me).
I’m
curious to know if anyone else shops for vintage Christmas year round like I
do?
I did mention there would be questions,
didn’t I? See, there’s another one.
I know if I came across a vendor in a
middle-of-the-summer vintage event (or even during a regular non-holiday-season visit to a vintage mall),
who was dedicated solely to vintage Christmas, regardless of what might be on
my shopping list, I would stop dead in my tracks.
More blurriness shiny-ness.
But
maybe that’s just me. Shopping year round for vintage Christmas is one of those
things that feels perfectly normal.*
OR… maybe
it’s not just me. Maybe it’s you too.
Maybe we’re all in the
same secret, sparkly, shiny club and don’t realize it!
And so because I know how I feel about the
topic of vintage Christmas year round, I wonder how you might feel about it and
would greatly appreciate any enabling feedback you’d like to provide.
Thank
you and Merry Vintage Christmas.
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* Disclaimer:
I acknowledge that it’s entirely possible I may have lost my grip on “normal”
some time ago.
PS I took the Christmas photos shown here in late 2013 when Magpie Ethel and I combined our vintage Christmas hoards at Monticello Antique Marketplace. She wrote a fun post about it and you can CLICK HERE to read it. Lots of eye candy.
Oh, it's not just you. I love me vintage Christmas all year round! Problem is, nobody around here seems to sell it year-round. My jaw would drop if I came across a table like that. I'd pass out if the prices were actually good!
ReplyDeleteOh my, be still my heart!! I'd shop for vintage Christmas treasures any time of the year. I'd be kicking myself if I saw something fabulous and passed it up just because it was March, or June, or July, or any month when normal people don't buy Christmas stuff. If the price is right, I'll buy.
ReplyDeleteAre these trick questions? Isn't there only one answer?
ReplyDeleteOH MY GOODNESS!! I'm in for some shopping!
ReplyDeletewarmly,
deb
Oh me too, I can shop for vintage Christmas all year round! And that booth looks pretty darn amazing!
ReplyDeleteI'm always shopping when I get the opportunity. My daughter loves vintage Christmas so we need lots of stuff :)
ReplyDeleteWhat a timely post, I have a ton of vintage Christmas to sell and was wondering if people would buy it in the summer...Looks like they would!!!
ReplyDeleteCarol
Skooch over on that bench, I'm feeling a bit faint too!
ReplyDeleteScreeeech. Parking brake engaged. I would LOVE to find a Christmas themed booth anytime of the year. I took a handful of Christmas to my last event and I sold nearly all of it. All of the people that bought it said they were SO happy to find a Vendor with some Christmas. I think if you really LOVE Christmas stuff, then you will look for it any time I noticed that my favorite thrift had a new Christmas section yesterday. Squee!
ReplyDeleteI don't covet vintage Christmas in the same way you and Ethel do but I am always on the lookout for my personal collection. Show me a deer, a bottle brush tree or an indent or a dimentional and I am all over it like cotties, regardless the time of year!!!
ReplyDeleteI am a seasonal girl. I am your dream customer, paying top dollar for Christmas because I only think about Christmas or want Christmas or like Christmas from about November 15th thru December 25th. Then I'm done. I also hate the thought of fall until approximately September 23rd when I start wailing about my lack of pumpkin planting. Thinking ahead has never been in my skill set.
ReplyDeleteI may be president of that secret, sparkly, shiny club....
ReplyDeleteWow. So sorry I didn't hop over in December to check out that! I have to assume the crowd swarmed in and shopped it clean. Looks awesome!
ReplyDeleteOh, yeah. I shop Christmas whenever and wherever. Why let a date on the calendar stop you?
ReplyDeleteAn all vintage Christmas booth all year...not too many seen around here. Could be something to think about!
ReplyDeleteKeep having fun!
I want Summer to last forever! I tend to avoid the whole Christmas in July frenzy. But if I came across your booth this time of year, I would buy lots of stuff. Just like I did during Christmas at Monticello last year! I also look for vintage Christmas at all the sales and shows no matter what time of year it is. And I am jealous of the people who have Christmas stuff out at their thrifts year round. That just doesn't happen here.
ReplyDeleteBack to the part about not partaking in Christmas in July? I'm a liar. Bring it on!
Erica
I buy and sell (if the people want it) year round! Christmas in July happens to start tomorrow... :)
ReplyDeleteYou can exhale.....you are not alone in your addiction!!!
ReplyDeleteDare you ask me what my reaction would have been? I'd have to pull out my inhaler and put my teeth back in. (Disclaimer: I don't have asthma NOR do I own a pair of dentures).
ReplyDeleteFun, fun stuff! Makes me think of Rianna's song, Shine BRIGHT like a diamond in the sky.
xo
I buy it anytime and am doing a show in October that I plan to have a very similar booth so thanks for the photos, the girl has good display sense! BTW, how were the prices. Nothing can ruin a fab booth like that quicker than astronomical prices!
ReplyDeleteI have never in my life seen so much vintage Christmas in one place but if I did- for sure I'd shop! ♥
ReplyDeleteI would have spent the rest of the day there! My question not be should I shop, but How much!
ReplyDeleteAre you kidding me? I will shop for vintage Christmas in July, I will shop for vintage Halloween in January and vintage patriotic stuff at Christmastime. I'll take it when I can get it, no matter what the calendar says!
ReplyDeleteOH YES I would shop vintage Christmas any where any time of year.
ReplyDeleteI would almost pass out seeing that much in one place LOL
So how much did you buy ??
I keep thinking I should bring just vintage Christmas to one of my shows. My Etsy Christmas shop is open year round, and I know I buy it whenever I see it, so why wouldn't anyone else? I think it would definitely be a crowd-stopper, but is the market too specialized?
ReplyDeleteSwooning here! Yes to shopping Christmas in July! Or any other non-Christmas month for that matter.
ReplyDeleteWell I used to be a year round Vintage Christmas type of Gal... but at this Season of Life I'm starting to wonder just how many Christmases I have left... and it seems so wrong to Hoard it all so I've started to Let Go of most of my Stash... and offer it beginning in July, for those of you who probably have many more Christmases ahead of you than behind you... you can Thank me later. But the Images still cause me to be weak at the knees... even if I'm just being a lurker rather than a participator and going to the dirt over any or all of it anymore. Dawn... The Bohemian
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