I love mail delivery time. I always have. I remember as a little girl, running down our lane to check the mail. I’d see the mail man come and I would race to get to the box first. We knew our mailman, he went to our church, and we thought that was pretty cool. Sometimes if he had a package too big to fit in the box at the end of the lane, he’d drive up and honk the horn, and someone would run out and get the package from him.
I still like to get mail. Of course now I have to deal with the bills and junk as well as the fun mail. Packages in the mail are my favorite – especially when it’s fun stuff for me 🙂
I know it’s past Christmas, but you know what? It will be November again before we know it and I’ll have so much fun with these added to my stash.
My friend Andrea Singarella posted a pic of these on Instagram – she was doing some cleaning out and decluttering and offered these up for sale. And I nabbed them. I love vintage ornaments and the two strawberries in this batch will always make me think of Andrea as she loves strawberries.
Did you write letters when you were young? I did. We didn’t have cell phones or iPods we could text our friends on. We called on the phone if it wasn’t long distance and if it was long distance we wrote letters. A cousin and I who lived just a few miles apart would write letters even though we talked on the phone all the time. I loved talking on the phone as much as I loved getting the mail!
I remember asking to answer the phone when it rang at a very young age. And fussing with my sister over who got to answer it when she was also old enough.
My girls have never done that. My oldest wouldn’t answer the phone when I wanted her to! And now we don’t even have a home phone and my younger two don’t even remember a home phone ringing. It’s been long enough that my teen doesn’t even know what it’s like to have a home phone number. When she went in to get her permit and they asked for a phone number she told them she didn’t have a phone! It took me by surprise a bit, and was so weird when it hit me that she really doesn’t have a phone! In my day everyone had a phone – the home phone belonged to everyone who lived there and that was the number you gave out when asked for a phone number.
Not for our kids generation! No home phone rings and they don’t have a phone so therefore no phone number 😀
Now I know that most kids out there have a phone by the time they are getting their permit to drive a car. And I totally understand that for most people it becomes necessary for their kids to have a phone much sooner than we have had to get one for our daughter. She’s probably the oldest teen in our area to not have a phone. But so far it has not been an absolute necessity so we haven’t pulled that trigger yet.
Back to the packages in the mail – look how wonderfully Andrea packaged my ornaments? Each one individually wrapped and boxed up so securely. If you need to ship out fragile items you can take some tips from her!
Andrea makes some of the best jewelry. I love her style. She included this awesome pair of earrings with the ornaments! I’m so thrilled! I love them! I have a necklace she made from a couple of years ago these are going to be great with it. Thanks so much Andrea!
So how about you? Do you like packages in the mail? Did you or do you still write letters? Do you still have a home phone or have you given it up for a cell phone only?
Another little tidbit – as much as I loved talking on the phone as a young girl and teen, I really don’t like it much now. I MUCH prefer to text 😀
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Jill
Loved this post. I adore your ornaments. I have some from my own Christmas tree as a child. I am 54 and we have pictures of those ornaments on trees that I am standing next too. They are little treasures of mine.
AND, I loved getting mail. I had a pen pal when I was young. I still love getting mail and handwritten notes are the best. I wish we did more of that, but time and convenience makes an email more of the thing to do. We have no home phone anymore either. I realized no one called us anymore except for the occasional group asking for money and no one wanted to get up to answer it:) I like texting too. Just so quick and easy.
Vintage and antique ornaments are the best 🙂 I never had a pen pal but several of my friends did. I thought the idea was cool but never hooked up with anyone to do it myself. Texting is my absolute fav. You are right – so quick and easy! Sometimes my hubby says ‘why don’t you just call?’ when I’m texting someone back and forth. But calling takes longer. you can text as you are doing something else and if something comes up you need to attend to you can get back to a text when you have time.
I love getting packages in the mail, but I espcially enjoy hand written letters. I still write them and love getting them. We still have a land line, it looks like an old timey phone, push button, I love it and don’t have any plans on doing away with a land line yet.
Sweet post Jill.
Blessings,
Cindy
The old phones are fun Cincy – if we still had a landline I’d get a cute one!
Andrea has some of the most fun stuff!
I love packages, too! Even when I know what’s in them! 🙂 I don’t write letters much, but I do try to send note cards some and thank-you notes. I used to love to write/receive letters and I loved picking out fun greeting cards and sending them to friends and boyfriend! {He got a lot of cards when we were dating.} 🙂
Packages are the best! I get quite a few anymore with my biz. My hubby has finally gotten pretty used to it and just calmly asks ‘what did you get today’ instead of an anxious ‘what did you buy NOW’? 😀 😀 😀 And we have a pretty thick stack of cards that we exchanged when we were dating too – even though we saw each other every day!
We live on a farm way out in the country(12 miles from town). We keep an 18 gallon rubbermaid container down the lane by the gated entrance to the farm. If we have a package the mailman just reaches through the paddock fencing and drops it in the container. Then he leaves us a note in the mailbox that we have a package. Also,even though everyone in our family has a cell phone, cell coverage is very spotty, so we also have a land line. We don’t use it much though. Believe it or not, I’ll wait til I’m in town to make my phone calls!! Crazy, I know! Here is another funny one for you-I work at an antique store in town. We have a vintage 1960’s working Coke machine that customers can purchase bottle sodas from. My 21 year old son had a friend visiting from out of town. They came with me to the shop to open up one morning. The friend was absolutely fascinated with that Coke machine! He just could not understand how it worked!! It took me by surprise at how fascinated he was with the machine. I just assumed that he knew what it was and how it worked, since I grew up going to gas stations and buying a Coke all the time! But then I had to remember that those Coke machines really are a thing of the past. Other than an antique store setting I haven’t seen one in years.
What a great way for your packages to get delivered 🙂 It’s always so amazing to me when young kids learn about something for the first time that we just took for granted! Shows me that I’m getting older too 😀
I enjoy receiving packages in the mail & am receiving many these days because we are updating our home to put on the market soon. The ornaments you showed are pretty. I have quite a few antique ones mainly from my mother & mother-in-law which were given to me when I first got married. My family had a party line when I was growing up. Once in a while some of the women in the neighborhood would get on there & listen to your conversations. I especially had to deal with this when I was dating. It ticked off my boyfriend, now my husband, to know that someone else was listening to our conversations. Personally I didn’t care. We have a line phone which we’ll get rid of once we move. We also have a cell phone. I hate talking on the telephone because I spent a lot of time as a nurse on them. I would rather email or talk face to face with people and I also don’t have a desire to text. Regarding mail, I don’t write many letters, usually just at Christmas or for birthdays cards I’ll insert a note. I still have several letters from my husband when we were dating. We used to write a lot of letters when I was growing up. At that time (late 50’s & 60’s) most of my relatives in Kentucky did not have phones. I remember when I was 13 I had a pen pal in England. One time she wrote & said that she had gone to see a rock n roll group named the “Beatles”. This was about a year before they became popular.
Oh the party line! We had that too when I was a kid – clear up until everyone had a private line because the phone companys made it that way. My dad would never pay the extra to have a private line before the whole state went that way! It bugged me to want to use the phone and someone else was on the line. We had a neighbor who would listen in too – made me so mad! I was probably almost a teen when the party line went away completely!
Texting, hmmm, we don’t have it on our phones, it’s extra so to keep bills down we do without. Can’t really say it’s something we’ll be getting anytime soon. We have Consumer Cellular thru AARP which is $23.43 monthly for 600 minutes. Hubs went over to them few months ago. We get discount on bill because we’re subscribed to AARP. Every little bit helps.
I got rid of our landline in early 2011. That was after hubs had stroke and I was looking for every way possible to cut bills. Don’t really miss landline, hardly use cell phone that much.
Pretty sure I told you I got rid of Dish Network also this last summer, don’t miss that either and now I have little extra money every month. I need to get new glasses so extra will go for that soon. Lowes has ends of carpet rolls that are bound and sold for decent prices, would love to get one that covers more of our awful carpet in living room. So looks like my extra money has been collared for couple months anyway.
Today I made new set of curtains for kitchen window. I used one of my old vintage tablecloths. Tablecloth had a lot of kitchen things on it which I loved. Tired of storing cloths and no use so decided to make kitchen curtains, sometimes I make table runners with parts of them. Working on making new curtains for our bathroom also with another tablecloth. Washed it later today so can work on those tomorrow. My new Brother sewing machine is doing a great job.
I used to write “books” as my close friends called them. Wrote them many times when on the road with hubs. Had lots of time to write. They used to tell me they looked forward to next chapter in my travels. I used to be quite a letter writer for many years. Not any more tho, now I write too long comments. lol. Past few years, haven’t even done Christmas cards, shame on me.
Today was our daughter’s oldest daughters b/d, 18, doesn’t seem possible. They came over yesterday to bring us a vacuum and so G/d could get her b/d gift.
The vacuum is going to save our backs. It’s so much lighter and so quiet. Hubs had to do a major cleaning up, and some fixing but for free, who cares. Our living room finally got a good vacuum today, had to empty it 3 times, it filled up with dog/cat hair and dirt. This has got to be the dirtiest place we’ve ever lived, even over AZ. Always dust all over no matter how much I’d dust which I don’t do much any more because of it. (handy excuse anyway huh?) Now I can vacuum rooms without having to wait til hubs in mood to do it. I could wait til cows come home before he wants to do it. Our old vacuum so heavy and hard to use, even got hard for hubs to move it. All I wanted to do was throw it in trash.
This has gone on too long so will shut up. Hope you have good week. Will be sending you that little surprise soon. Bye for now.
It’s always fun to read your long comments JaneEllen!
Hello Jill…your ornaments are stunning & the strawberries certainly make me think of Andrea! The earrings are lovely & just receiving packages or letters sets me over the edge with excitement. I love to wrap them up pretty too! November will be here all too soon…thought of making some decorations today hahaha!
Thank you Hope! At Christmastime I have so many ideas I wish I had spent all year just preparing for it! HA!