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The husband and I were driving to the grocery store the other day when he saw a sign for an antique show at the fairgrounds. And when my husband sees a sign for antiques?
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We spend the next 3 hours in drafty barns searching for treasure and endlessly gabbing with dealers.
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This little cart was sweet.
The $850 price tag? Not so much.
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Deer antler cribbage board? I’ll pass.
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Vintage clown with gaping open mouth ready to swallow your soul?
Hell no!
But the other half couldn’t leave empty handed.
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So we came home with an antique Boston milk crate with metal hinges and lock ..
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And a bottle of pain expeller with original box and insert.
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49% alcohol? That will cure what ails you.
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I mean really, just look how happy this woman was.
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River's world..... 
Get those nasty ingredients out of there and make it 50% alcohol ad safe for internal use, then we can talk.
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Either way, pain is expelled.
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If she drank it, that look is of her dying. It contains ammonia and camphor!
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Yup!
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I love Antiquing! What’s sad is, most Antiques are actually things I grew up with.
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I hear that!
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Efficacious? Impressive.
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LOVE that crate!!! Man cave decor!
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That’s just where it went.
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I had an old bottle like that at one point, don’t know what happened to it. Ingredients included 49% alcohol (Was there a limit on alcohol content?) and 25% marijuana oil. It was manufactured in 1877, or at least patented back then. Those were the days…
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And don’t forget the laudanum. Making opium addicts out of housewives since 1676.
😳
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A good and worthy profession for all.
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Okay, confession…I love antique malls, shops, fairs, you name it I’ll stop. But just like you, I think some of this antique stuff is overpriced and not in the best condition. And some of the items are a bit on the creepy/weird side, like that clown.
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Clowns and dolls.
*shudders*
😬
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Yes, I’m with you there. I if mean IT and Annabelle aren’t a lesson for everyone NOT buy these so called antiques and not suffer consequences, then I don’t know what. 🤨
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We went to a museum that had an antique doll collection. Omg. I had nightmares for weeks.
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Well I’m sure you did, creepy…hello?
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Some of them had…. teeth.
😱
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Ewww…🤮
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And they gave those things to children.
🥴
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That sounds like three hours I would not enjoy.
Funny about the lady in the diagram though, someone should check on her.
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I like antiquing, but with my husband you spend 3/4’s of the time listening to him talk to strangers.
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” And when my husband sees a sign for antiques?” (I CAN’T HELP MYSELF!!!!) Is that where he found you????
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Excuse me? He robbed the cradle!
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Just out of curiosity, does hubby watch ANTIQUES ROAD SHOW on PBS? I do, but the wife can’t stand it (fortunately, she has other redeeming qualities — ha ha).
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Of course. I blame that show for half of the crap in our cellar.
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I like the show for all the cool stuff, but I can’t stand all the lies from people who find Tiffany lamps in the dumpster or Remington bronzes at garage sales for a dollar. That’s why I like to call it “Liars on Parade”.
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An appropriate alternate title. I love to see the people who buy things they think are worth a fortune, only to find they’re reproductions.
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I like to see that too, especially when it’s so obvious that they are. I love seeing all the old guitars and Stickley furniture, as well as the art pottery, but you just can’t beat the liars.
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Love the milk crate . . . unless it smells like sour milk inside.
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Thankfully, it doesn’t.
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Although I see croquet mallets next to the clown, maybe it was actually the world’s first corn hole. Also, I think the key to the pain expeller is that you rub briskly, as the bottle instructs. If you rub it into your body languidly, it just won’t work. 😉
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Quickly before the fumes render you unconscious, yes.
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