Last Saturday, a local gentleman stopped by Paint Pan Patty’s and asked if we’d be interested in some junk his wife had sitting in the back yard. We’re always a little bit hesitant at first, until we get the whole story. You know, we don’t want to end up with a real pile of junk we just have to haul off to the dump. So we ask a few questions and try to determine whether or not it’s an honest-to-goodness-treasure-hunter’s-dream pile of junk. There’s a difference, ya know……..
I could see Patty in the first stages of cardiac arrest when the gentleman explained that his wife also had a nice burn pile going next to all this junk and wasn’t opposed to using it! The next item on her list for the towering inferno was an old Hoosier cabinet that was dirty, paint peeling, and needed a little work on the roll-up door part thingy. Whoa! Eeerrrkkkkk!!! Stop the train!! Trash to some folks, but PURE LOVELINESS to us.
At this point, I watched as Patty calmly (as in *trying not to shake*) wrote down her phone number and asked him to please have Wife call before she burned anything else so we could drive over and take a look. We might possibly be interested.
Of course, we couldn’t get up there fast enough, and when we drove into their yard yesterday, I couldn’t believe my eyes. The Hoosier cabinet is in almost perfect condition but needing a little love. We quickly purchased that along with a full size bedroom set from the 1940’s or ‘50s, some cast iron pans (one Griswold, rescued from the burn pile), ornate upholstered rocker, vanity bench, some old books, and several other items destined for the shop. Honey hole, indeed! We can’t wait to get it all set up and ready for you to see.
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