Shiny Brite

I am one of those people who is totally cool with listening to Christmas music the day after Halloween. Don’t get me wrong, I love Thanksgiving, but I see no reason that it cannot be celebrated concurrently with Christmas. Christmas is basically a season–there’s Spring, Summer, Fall, and Christmas. Oh, you’re saying that it is technically still Fall and that Thanksgiving happens in the Fall? OK, let me revise. There are only three seasons–Spring, Summer, and Christmas. Halloween marks the end of Summer.

Thankfully, there are many people who agree with my cult of Christmas ideology. One of them, Rachel Lutz, from the Peacock Room in Detroit, recently held a vintage Christmas ornament sale. By “recently” I mean the sale was on November 7, smack dab in the Christmas season.

The sale was held in the lobby of the Park Shelton apartments in downtown Detroit. In case anyone is worried about whether Detroit is actually on its way back, please review that last sentence. There was a VINTAGE CHRISTMAS ORNAMENT SALE IN DETROIT. We back baby, we back.

I got there about an hour after the sale started and it was pretty much cleared out. People were super upset about this. What do you expect though? This was the first year for the event and everything was priced reasonably. Each ornament was 50 cents-1 dollar. Some were $5. People snatched up handfuls and handfuls. There was no way that the organizers could have anticipated the demand. Anyway, the people whining are not true Christmas lovers, as they were not acting at all in the Christmas spirit.

Some rarer items were priced high, but still reasonable.

And then there was this monstrosity:

I mean, it is kind of cool. Just a lot going on.

I ended up buying lots of things, mostly plain ornaments. Mostly Shiny Brite brand.

This old German garland was my best find. It is mega old. At the latest, it is from the 1920s, but perhaps from the turn of the century. This photo does not do it justice.

I am hoping to get a tiny vintage tinsel tree to display all of these pieces, so hopefully at a sale soon I can find one. If not, I will buy a repro one from Target or something. Now that I think of it, that might be the better idea. Some of those old trees are flammable.