Vintage Christmas Ornament(s) Lost - January 2022
Hard to put away all the Christmas stuff without a few glitches, right? This year, we lost a number of our vintage glass ball Christmas ornaments. Most of them were common ones - just a single color. But a few of them were these more interesting ones - with writing/stripes/what-have-you on them. I posted some photos of a good haul that we picked up at an Estate Sale in Elmhurst back in 2016 , but I don't think the one in the photo (below) was from that group. That same year (2016), I bought another set of vintage glass ornaments (in these nice cardboard storage boxes) and *those* blue ones were some of the ones that shattered this year. One of the things that I'm trying hard to focus on in 2022 is the notion of 'stuff'. I read this post from Jason Kottke that references a Wired piece from Paul Ford titled: A Grand Unifying Theory of Buying Stuff . After reading those posts - the line about not 'buying stuff for my stuff' stuck with me. It also made