Thank you

[wraithfodder]

I want to thank everyone who left condolecenses in my previous post. They were very, very much appreciated. I have not yet had the time to reply to them all, but I do plan to.

The house still feels empty, and way too large, now that my mother is gone. I've been going through papers (important for probate, etc.) and some closets - some of which have unopened sheets dating back to the 60s. The Mad Men set decorators would have a stroke looking at all the old stuff in this house! I found a heating pad cover from the 60s/70s, with this 'flower power' green power design. Very retro.

I got up two Christmas trees - tiny ones. Alas, the Dalek remains undecorated this year. Hopefully next year. Here's just a sampling of some of the decorations. I need to find mini-Dalek globes. Alas, the Godzilla ornaments are too big/heavy for the Christmas tree, which is one of those tiny table-top varities.

On the good side, the two Stargate Atlantis (one's a Stargate Atlantis/SG-1 crossover) novels I ordered from Fandemonium arrived! I just may take a break from cleaning/probate stuff and read a book!

Comments

[astrumporta.livejournal.com]

Aww, glad you're getting into the spirit of the season, at least a bit. As I found out when my mom passed a year ago...some of those old, retro things could be worth a pretty penny to someone, so don't throw them away! We had an antiques expert go through my mom's stuff, even though mom was an antiques dealer herself, heh. The expert has amazing stories about empty toy boxes worth hundreds, a Frisbee that was one of 5 in the world and worth thousands, etc...

Have a good holiday; I hope you'll be with loved ones.

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

We're not tossing anything, except stuff that is obviously worthless (like lots and lots of crumpled up clean Kleenex...). Wow, wish we had empty toy boxes. We were rather brutal with our toys. We were always enacting WW III ;)