With every election year comes all the accoutrements that voters can buy to show off their love and/or support of a certain candidate. Yard signs and bumper stickers are ubiquitous, and in some cases t-shirts. But let me tell you, … Continue reading
Baseball fans are a fortunate lot, especially in October. Whether or not your team is in contention–as a Tigers fan, over the years my team is quite often not in contention–there’s always a ton of great baseball coming your way. … Continue reading
Apparently, last week was International Book Week. This is not sponsored by an organization or store, just an internet meme, streamlined by whomever decided to post such a thing on Facebook and watch it roam about like Ninja Turtle devotees … Continue reading
Well, friends, this was a miserable week in sales, nothing but a tight fist of five diggers sales so filthy and lackluster they only seemed to drive one into a miserable existential angst. The rest were clean sales, but not … Continue reading
If you’ve been reading this column regularly, you know that one of the most sought after items by yours truly are old magazines–Life, Look, Collier’s, The Saturday Evening Post (pre-1970s), and the sweet, sweet Mad magazines of yesteryear (again, pre-1970s, … Continue reading
Thanks to my recent trip to Brooklyn, and a visit from my sister-in-law and niece and nephew, we didn’t hit many estate sales this weekend (kids can only take so many musty basements.) However, I’ll use this opportunity to share … Continue reading
For over a half a year now, you’ve been reading about my peregrinations around the Twin Cities, plumbing basements and ascending attics in search of trinkets, household goods, books, ties, Life magazines, and most of all, interesting stories. Every time … Continue reading
Back in the day, when it was a Sunday and the library was closed, and you had maybe five channels on your television set, no computers, no cell phones, no iPads, you had to entertain yourself with your wits and … Continue reading
From genuine estate sales to foreclosure sales to the person who’s simply downsizing, you will almost always find old family photos. A scrapbook, a framed portrait from a Sears studio, an old black-and-white picture from generations ago, sometimes even slides … Continue reading
This past Independence Day, I finally got around to hanging a flag. Many weeks ago, I found an antique mounting bracket that held the banner at a sharp angle, and thus over the ever-encroaching shrubs that cling to the front … Continue reading