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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bev aka thelmasstuff, post: 10237482, member: 23&quot;]My parents bought and sold &#039;stuff&#039;.&nbsp; In those days, second hand stores were more popular than antique stores because after the Depression and WWII, people were still recovering.&nbsp; My Dad either had a store or sold stuff out of the barn out back.&nbsp; My mother would send me out with him when he did his trash runs because she thought it would stop him from drinking.&nbsp; Ha!&nbsp; We&#039;d stop at the dump and he&#039;d be in the gatehouse having a beer with the guard and I&#039;d be dump picking when I was 8.&nbsp; He was friends with a guy named Eddie Lee who had a junkyard and old car graveyard.&nbsp; They&#039;d be in the kitchen and I&#039;d be roaming around the old cars.&nbsp; Eventually, a group bought that house and it&#039;s now the Robert Frost Homestead in Derry.&nbsp; It&#039;ll always be Eddie Lee&#039;s junkyard to me.&nbsp; I didn&#039;t have a new doll or toy until I was 10 and my mother hurt her back and went for surgery.&nbsp; My Dad bought me a doll in a swing at the hospital gift shop.&nbsp; I still have it.&nbsp; My mother lived in a convent school from ages 5-10 and she collected things she liked.&nbsp; There were knick-knacks on every surface of the house.&nbsp; Nothing special.&nbsp; Just things she liked.&nbsp; I didn&#039;t realize I collected open salts until I was going to post them on the FB page and found that I have over 40!&nbsp; They were in various china cabinets so they weren&#039;t all together.&nbsp; My home is more like a Victorian museum.&nbsp; Lots of interesting antiques and &#039;stuff.&#039;&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" />.&nbsp; I&#039;m not a fan of unlived in looking houses.&nbsp; They have no soul.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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