it never fails...

[ickledurl]

every year, i fall obsessively in love with some object which gradually turns into a collection. in the past years, i've collected:

garbage pail kids

galloshes

vintage bicyles

and this year, it's VINTAGE TELEPHONES! (which makes ebay very dangerous territory...)
i desparately want a 1930's Bakelite telephone.

Comments

[jourdannex]

Do you imagine yourself lounging in a gown and languidly dialing up people? :D YAY

;)

[ickledurl]

but of course, dahling...

red lipstick and all.

[bo_mockery21]

dude, you want a vintage phone? go take the one out of my garage. it's by the back door. no one ever uses it.

i'm serious. next time you come over take it.

oh really?!

[ickledurl]

what does it look like?

[joline]

i love the second one. :)

i have been daydreaming about one of those for my living room, next to my pink velvet chair. but every once in a while, i gaze upon all my vintage treasures and am gripped with this horrifying question: "does my apartment look like a grandma's house??" then i realize that the winged eddie vedder over my mantle helps save me from that fate... for now.

but i always loved granny-chic.

[ickledurl]

i know what you mean...but ronald's abtract paintings pretty much keep our place from resembling anything too granny-ish. we've got a pretty nice balance of old and new.

but you do make a good point to keep in mind.
:)

[jek_a_go_go]

you do know about the rule of three, no? anything you own three or more of is a collection. by that rule, i collect TOO many THINGS! :)

we have an old office push button and a princess dial...when the power outtage happenned, those phones worked fine because they weren't cordless and didn't need any electricity!

i like alarm clocks!

[ickledurl]

in that case, i've got a gazillion collections too! lunchboxes, penguins? old soda pop bottles? i dunno what half of the stuff in my room (at my parents' house) is or where it came from, or what i was thinking when i started collecting the darn things. i think some of these collections go back to when i was 11 years old! oh geez......i think it is time for some heavy duty purging. i can't wait to move into ronald's apartment!