My little personal list of why buying vintage is such a wonderful thing is growing daily.
- Buying vintage is contributing to the repurposing, recycling, reusing "green" movement. You can feel good about buying vintage!
- It's fun to imagine where your vintage items have been and what kind of life their previous owner lived.
- Vintage items are just made better. Once you start to feel the delicate nature of fine china or the sturdy weight of a real wood desk...*sigh*, there's just no going back. New feels cheap in comparison to me now.
- Buying vintage can bring back so many memories for you. You may start to remember how your grandmother used to use those thick green glasses for your juice when she made you breakfast back when you were five...or maybe you remember the great-aunt who used to cover every surface with crocheted doilies. Suddenly, all those things are so much sweeter and you may realize, like I am, why you're drawn to very specific themes or eras, because they represent little snippets of distant childhood memories.
- My new addition to add to my list is inspired by today's shopping: the great experience of talking to the elderly as they share their tales of where they got certain items and the joy they exude when they realize their items that they can no longer care for or that belonged to a deceased relative are going to someone who truly loves and appreciates them.
I truly get sappy over this stuff, don't I?!
