Many Etsy buyers help make my Hoarder Rehab so fun and funny!
We have the 9 inch dinner plates and the smaller 7.5 inch plates, available here
photo via VintageToGoEasy
Oh no, some of the emails have seemed to disappeared, so here's what's left! Too bad because his were so funny!
Hooray!
My plate just arrived and I love it even more than I expected I would!!! I like these old plates, because they are not huge. Just right for lunch (for one, haha.) maybe a deviled egg sandwich with a side of cottage cheese and some canned pineapple. Does that sound 1950s enough? :)
I will for sure be in touch for another plate, and hopefully it won’t take me four more years to do it. I’ll need one more dinner and salad plate eventually. I have cups/saucers, and they are my favorite for hot chocolate. ;)
Thank you for the goodies. I’ll ask my fortune teller fish, when I’ll get my paper plates replacements!
Can’t wait!
My plate just arrived and I love it even more than I expected I would!!! I like these old plates, because they are not huge. Just right for lunch (for one, haha.) maybe a deviled egg sandwich with a side of cottage cheese and some canned pineapple. Does that sound 1950s enough? :)
I will for sure be in touch for another plate, and hopefully it won’t take me four more years to do it. I’ll need one more dinner and salad plate eventually. I have cups/saucers, and they are my favorite for hot chocolate. ;)
Thank you for the goodies. I’ll ask my fortune teller fish, when I’ll get my paper plates replacements!
Can’t wait!
Virtual Hug,
Etsy buyer
In the first email, which has now disappeared, it said the Carnation plate was going to a "forever" house! I really like that and as a recovering hoarder, it made me feel so much better! It was also mentioned that paper plates would have to intervene until the next plate purchase! So funny!
I used to have quite a set of these, but I'm letting them all go, available here
photo via Hoarder Rehab
I wrote back:
Yipee!!!
Haha! We use the smaller plates too! We call them our fake out dieting plates! Love your 50s lunch. So happy to hear you have a growing set of them. What did your fortune fish tell you?
Hope to you see you back soon with a virtual hug!
Kennedy
PS. Thanks for making my morning so much brighter!
Haha! We use the smaller plates too! We call them our fake out dieting plates! Love your 50s lunch. So happy to hear you have a growing set of them. What did your fortune fish tell you?
Hope to you see you back soon with a virtual hug!
Kennedy
PS. Thanks for making my morning so much brighter!
This is the fortune fish we pass out with orders, available here
photo via JunkDrawerAndMore
The next email:
Fishy said:
“There will be many more Russel Wright carnation pieces in your future, my child.”
Hope he’s right. (“Wright”!)
“There will be many more Russel Wright carnation pieces in your future, my child.”
Hope he’s right. (“Wright”!)
Hahah! Yes and the fortune fish is always right, Wright!
Two are available at VintageToGoEasy, here
photo via VintageToGoEasy
The next email:
Fishy said:
“There will be many more Russel Wright carnation pieces in your future, my child.”
Hope he’s right. (“Wright”!)
“There will be many more Russel Wright carnation pieces in your future, my child.”
Hope he’s right. (“Wright”!)
Hahah! Yes and the fortune fish is always right, Wright!
and the last email:
Yes, of course you can use my story. I'm not sure it's much of a story, though. (Guy buys plate. Guy eats off plate. Guy takes nap.)
But if you end up selling the movie rights, I expect a very generous percentage of profits. (Or some plates!)
This is Russel Wright's Sterling China with Carnations on it, which were used in the original Carnation Ice cream Parlor at Disneyland on Main Street, back in the 50s. It has since reopened, but I don't think they use these plates anymore. I don't know if these plates were ever used there, but I can always dream! Available here
photo via Hoarder Rehab
Saying Goodbye: Back in the day, my brother collected Russel Wright's Iroquois and didn't want these after I had already purchased them, so I used them as Sunday breakfast dishes and then off and on, anytime I moved and found them in my hoard.
What I Learned:
1. I never know what's I'm going to find in my hoard! In the sense, that it's going to make someone extremely happy! And I am thankful that tons of my hoard has made people extremely happy! And I have a ton more to let go!
2. I'm not sure what happened to my Russel Wright collection, it wasn't as large as my brother's, but I had small strawberry pink espresso cups with saucers, a gray clock, some stainless steel tea accessories and candle holders that looked like flowers. The flower candle holders didn't look like anything of his style, but they had his recognizable signature on the bottom of both of them! How I can remember that I have no clue. I have such a selective memory.
3. Another Etsy buyer verified that theses types of Russel Wright Carnation plates were indeed used in the Carnation Ice cream Parlor at Disneyland from back in the day, you can read the story here.
4. My left side tension muscle nerve issues have subsided quite a bit and I'm feeling much better now. I think the 5 day liver detox with mainly vegetarian or raw meals on Mon and Fri and juice fasting T-Th helped me a lot, especially my energy levels. I'm still waking up at 3 am, so I'm grateful that I've been getting more done and having to take less naps. I think I'm sleeping better too through the night and don't have to get up to eat a snack or go to the bathroom a lot.
I have two 9.0 inch dinner plates left, but one has a manufacturing flaw, which is the one marked with the number 2, available here
photo via Hoarder Rehab
Thank you Etsy buyer from Hoarder Rehab for taking the time to send me a banter of funny and entertaining emails! Thank you for making my Hoarder Rehab so much more fun! I hope you are having many classic 1950s meals on the plates and then taking a nap!
One of my favorite things to do is nothing and then rest, lol. What is one of your favorite past times?
My purge pile is growing, this weekend is busy, next weekend is King Tut, so hopefully I'll have a substantial pile to donate by the weekend of end of June! I hope I remember to take a photo.
Everyday is such an adventure dehoarding on Etsy! I never know who I'll meet and I have met so many Etsy buyers who share their stories with me and every time I glean some insight about where my dehoarding journey is taking me.
We are having an Etsy sale that Etsy is promoting this weekend, but ours will last a week longer. Everything is on sale at all four shops.
My experiment of changing all the jewelry to the general category of jewelry so I could use all the holidays seemed to work for Mother's day, but not so well for Father's day. Now I'm still changing everything to Independence day, which I'm changing all the jewelry back to it's more specific categories because Etsy has Independence Day as one of their holidays. Very interesting how they have Independence Day as holiday in their specific category, but not Mother's or Father's day. I wonder what happened there.
For example, under the jewelry category, if I use the more specific categories, like stacking rings, the only holidays to choose from that were upcoming were either Cinco de Mayo or Independence day. If I wanted to use Mother's day for a holiday, I had to use the most general category of just "jewelry."
Thank you Etsy for the best Hoarder Rehab ever! And for all the kind people I'm meeting who are helping me indirectly and directly in so many ways with my Hoarder Rehab!
A stencil style bowl, not Russel Wright or a Carnation, but a rose, available here
This was my favorite bowl for a dinner salad for one from my teaching days.
photo via VintageToGoEasy
I'm still changing the holiday categories for each listing on all the shops and then I'll change all the jewelry categories back from general jewelry to the more specific categories. Next time I think I'll put the holiday that Etsy doesn't provide in the tag listings.
My goal is still to list 170 items per shop, which I've been working on at least 1-2 times a week. It looks like I have a lot of listing to catch up on!
Sales were up and down, but mostly up now and seem to even out. We ship out on Mon, Wed and Fri and lately one day is low on sales, one hits our average and one sky rockets! t We'll be joining the Etsy sale that starts on June 18, but we'll start our sale one week earlier and one week after..
Click on the shop names to visit new hoard listed daily and/or weekly: HoarderRehab with 165 items, The Destiny of Things- 163 items, VintageToGoEasy - 169 items and JunkDrawerAndMore - 170 items.
Maybe you'll find something and give it new life and a new home! Thanks for looking!
These made a Vernon ware collector happy and just think his collection of vintage items got so big he turned them into a museum of Museum of California Design!
Read the story here.
Related Stories:
1. Carnation plate story of two boys and their Dad eating at Carnation Ice cream Parlor in 1957 and the Dad just having to have the cups and saucers! Read it here.
2. Read Bill Stern's story about how he started collecting Vernon ware in the 1980s and now he has mine! I hope he's still using them! Read the story here.
3. This person bought one of my favorite diner type plates. Yes, I had a hoard of plate collections started, but now I'm down to three sets! Kudos for that accomplishment! I just loved the saying on these Room Service plates, story here.
Thank you for visiting my Hoarder Rehab and The Destiny of Things! Happy Father's Day weekend!
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