I love it when someone takes an idea one step further!
An email from another kind Etsyian with a story:
Hi
I received the box and it's just beautiful!
So, I will be getting married in a few weeks and I had seen in the Martha Stewart Weddings the idea to get antique ring boxes to carry your wedding bands in. So I didn't want to spend a fortune at an antique store, so I looked around on Etsy. That's how I found your store and your box. Even though it's not a actual ring box, it will be perfect and will serve the purpose! I'm so excited to incorporate it into my special day.
Thanks!
As a recovering hoarder, I know now that my collections of "one thing or another" are much larger than I think! As with my box collection, I thought I only had a "few" to "several", but it seems I have many! I've loved boxes since childhood and it most likely began with the decorative paper and wooden boxes from Japan. The boxes that items come in are simple, yet functional and beautiful.
I used to collect boxes of all sorts, from refrigerator food storage boxes, record album boxes, handmade decorative boxes, trinket to jewelry boxes and pill boxes! At last count it was 25, but the tally is higher depending one how one defines a box! Not counting my Japanese wooden and paper box collection, which I use to store seasonal items.
Saying Good-bye: I love wreath designs and I remember buying this trinket box back in the late 80s on a trip to San Francisco at a Japanese Antique shop. I bought two of them for my collection and thought it odd that they were made in Portugal and asked how they came about in a Japanese Antique shop, but no one there knew.
Which reminds me, I also bought some 24k Chinese gold jewelry during that trip, which is lost in my hoard too!
What I Learned:
1. My collections are always much larger than I think and I have more collections than I can remember. Now I can add 24k gold jewelry to my list of collections and go hoard diving for them.
2. If I don't even remember that I have these things, like the gold jewelry, it should mean I don't miss them. However as a recovering hoarder, it doesn't seem to work that way. These items hold memories, dreams and worries and it's time for me to work through them and let them go, so I can move on to the unknown.
3. I keep telling myself that I'm moving on to the unknown, but I'd feel much more comfortable knowing where I'm headed... a life without hoard is all I know. I keep telling myself it's going to be like an exciting surprise happy ending!
Thank you Etysian for taking a Martha Stewart Wedding idea one step further and making your way to my shop, HoarderRehab to help support my dehoarding in more ways than one! Congratulations and Best Wishes to you and your fiance!
Thank you Etsy for taking me into the unknown as a recovering hoarder, shop owner, techless hoarder newbie and for helping me to make my dreams come true!
Thank you US, Philippines, Poland, South Africa, UK, Australia, Pakistan, Mexico, Russia, Germany, New Zealand and Sweden for your visits the past two days and joining me in my HoarderRehab: The Destiny of Things! Visit my three shop by clicking on the links and see my collections! New hoard added daily: VintageToGoetsy, HoarderRehab and The Destiny of Things!
Most of trinket boxes have sold, but here are the last two for wedding day ring boxes: 1925 sterling coin box, and 1934 sterling coin box. And three small jewelry boxes: mid century modern Alfaraz box, silk embroidered unicorn box and Chinese cork scene box. Enjoy!
Other Related Stories:
1. Another unique wedding idea: Apothercary Jars for a Wedding Candy Bar
2. Unique wedding gift from the office girls: Supersized Pyrex Refrigerator Dish Set
3. Seven Year Anniversary Gifts: Copper Sacred Heart Nichos
4. My first box story: Dispersing My Box Collection
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