Hoarders!!

We lost our power the night Cyclone Yasi hit further up the coast and we still didn't have it the next day so Ned and I dragged out all my old stuff for a look.  This post is very photo heavy and probably really boring to most but I know Nic will like seeing all the things we used to look at when we were little!  Jo dropped round for a coffee while we were going through it so there was lots of "I remember that"!!!!

*This is only a small portion of what I actually have stored in tubs.!!

 My super cool leather boots from when I was about 5!  Totally retro now!!

 I have bags and bags of buttons, badges and broken things from mum, grandma and some of its my great, great grandparents.

 Antique ladies pocket watch, well over 100 years old and badly needing repairs.

 This tiny little medicine box with an even tinier note that says 'Tonic Influenza Powder.  A white one each morning and a pink one each night'

 This one I really love, old travel sewing kit.

 Can't remember who gave me this but they aren't from our family.  Love how it says 'The fascinating new game'!!

 I have cards galore from every event imaginable.....

 Stacks of postcards that are all around 105 years old.

 A little photo album and all the pics are about the size of a postage stamp and printed on tin.  I rescued this from an op shop!

 My great grandparents postcard albums.................

 Okay this is the part when you might be thinking you will see me on that tv show - Hoarders - one day!!

Above are Mum and Dads insurance papers from the house they had before I was even born!!

 An old Kayser christmas stockings packet, and the handbook for every parent of teens - 'The problem of Adolescence' - I like to quote parts to Jarrah out of this!!!

 Now this is scary - the gaurantee for M & D's CSR Easy Care stick on tiles!!!

 Heaps of needlework and old flour bags...

 One of my most favourite things - my Grandma Daphne's little jacket.  She's 97 so it's pretty old and needing only a small amount of repairs to the beading.  I wanted to wear it to my wedding with a plain slip dress underneath but I didn't sew then and couldn't find anyone to repair the beading.  I keep teasing Al that I will get to wear it when we renew our vows in August (10 years!!).  It's so hard to photograph and these pictures don't do it any justice at all.

 And to finish with - this love note from Dad to Mum from when we were little - love the ps!!