Remember blowing out your candles on one of these? The wind up kind that slowly spins while playing "Happy Birthday!" Featuring an off and on switch, so it doesn't drive grown ups crazy! I love this Hostess Heller Ware, simply for "all the above" reasons and the fact it is so old school it doesn't use batteries. This kitsch "birthday" item involves the second story that brought the second hint behind the idea of "easy to do" HoarderRehab for me!
It was less than a week after the Red Plate Special message, when someone ordered my Heller Hostess Ware and blurted out their "story behind the purchase". It was "deja vu" from "another stranger with a flyer" with more or less the same accidental act of kindness as the Red Plate Special, but with a much smaller message, like autumn's first leaf falling in my lap.
It was so simple and short. It just said this:
"Note from Buyer Please do not included the bill in the package. I can print it off the computer. This is a gift to my Godmother, as my kids over-wound hers this summer. Thank you!"
I couldn't believe it!!!! It was like getting hit in the head with a rock that slammed joyful delight into me! I became dazed, dizzy and then giddy about it. So short and sweet, yet so powerful. Letting go was getting easier and easier, faster and faster! All I had to know was where my loved item was going and more importantly how it was creating joy for others! In this case, it was spreading to four other people, outside myself and mr. oz!!!!!
That's how the Destiny of Things started to evolve in my mind and I started to request "the story behind the purchase" in the Thank You cards I was enclosing with my etsy orders.
These blurted out accidental acts of kindness were streaming into a powerful message for me! Free "all I can use" HoarderRehab therapy.
Saying Good bye: I had only used this "Happy Birthday" musical serving stand less than a handful of times. It's intended use was for the birthday party for my classroom students once a year, when we celebrated everyone's birthday all together all at once, (instead of one at a time or by month) but, most of the time it was misplaced. (Storing things at a year round school that roved is a whole different blog!) This memory was easy and pleasurable to accept and move on.
The most difficult memory attached to it was mr. oz's birthday. On his first birthday we celebrated together I surprised him with a chocolate cake while it played "Happy Birthday" with sparkler candles on it! And then on his next one....about the same, but I balanced this cake stand on the Heller Hostess Ware with cake!
This made me realize that my family and I are big into keeping and starting new traditions. I think my mom has a couple of cake cutters that play different versions of "Happy Birthday!" Is hoarding in the genes? What do you think? That's a good question to explore another time! I have an article about it too....somewhere, but until then...
Thank you for visiting and taking part in my HoarderRehab!
See the original listing, side kick story with more pics of the Hostess Heller Ware at VintageToGoetsy Like the cake stand? It's available here Please do remember to tell your story behind the cake stand, if you purchase it! Own a piece of Hoarder History today!
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