On this day, April 1st, I'm talking about foolish things we do. Never planned on it. Did it anyway. Me: Bottle Stoppers.
Stop with the stoppers, I say. Yup, I have a collection of wine stoppers and I’ve decided 30 is enough. Cost and space factors were the main considerations when I began collecting wine stoppers. I like buying pretty things that remind me of the places I travel, but without much room in either the expense account or the suitcase, little souvenirs made sense. (Full disclosure, one of my purchases broke the bank at $45, and of course, I had to go searching for a way to display the things, and those plastic gizmos cost a fortune.) It helps that I like wine and the display of my glitzy corks brightened up the bar. Not so smart was how BIG some of the corks are, too tall on the bottle to stand up in the refrigerator or too heavy to balance on top of the container.
Stop with the stoppers, I say. Yup, I have a collection of wine stoppers and I’ve decided 30 is enough. Cost and space factors were the main considerations when I began collecting wine stoppers. I like buying pretty things that remind me of the places I travel, but without much room in either the expense account or the suitcase, little souvenirs made sense. (Full disclosure, one of my purchases broke the bank at $45, and of course, I had to go searching for a way to display the things, and those plastic gizmos cost a fortune.) It helps that I like wine and the display of my glitzy corks brightened up the bar. Not so smart was how BIG some of the corks are, too tall on the bottle to stand up in the refrigerator or too heavy to balance on top of the container.
I’m presenting you some pictures of my
collection. Now I want to know what you
collect; how it started and if you’ve been able to ‘manage’ it without too much
angst. Or Foolishness. For those of you who have the
non-collecting gene, we want to hear your story, too, even if we won’t be able
to understand it.
Those series we write are also ‘collections,’ not
always easy to manage. Here’s my
boutique funeral planner threesome:
Boutique funeral
planners morph into a quirky detective agency, exposing secrets of the dead. The heroine, with a fainting disorder, has
prescient faint dreams; the hero is a muck-raking journalist. Add: blind forensic investigator, embalmer,
retired Army general, and a service dog.
