Saturday, October 18, 2025
Halloween Revisited -- A Monster Mask Mystery
Friday, October 17, 2025
Halloween's a Scream
When I first started decorating my house for Halloween in the 90's, it was pretty low-key. I didn't have a lot of decorations, vintage or otherwise. At some point, I picked up a screaming door mat from somewhere, probably one of the Halloween stores like Spirit Halloween, Halloween City or Halloween Express. I would put it under the normal front door mat and watch people jump when they came to my front door. That mat is long gone, but I found one still in the package a couple years ago.
Thursday, October 16, 2025
Come to the Party
I apologize for the lapse yesterday. It's been a busy week at work.
This poor little invite never got a chance to invite someone to a Halloween party. He looks out the window waiting for guests to arrive that never will.
It was made by Hallmark and looks to date from the 1950's to '60's.
Tuesday, October 14, 2025
Spearhead Industries Mummy Make-Up Disguise Kit
Monday, October 13, 2025
Monster Hot Rod Plaque
While out garage saling last weekend, I stumbled onto an unadvertised estate sale in my childhood hometown (which isn't saying I took some long drive. I only live about 5 minutes away from where I grew up). The sale was at the home of a family my family knew and in fact only lived about 1/4 of a mile from our home.
The last person to live in the house was one of the sons of the family. He had been into hot rodding cars since the 1960's and a lot of items were hot rod related.
While looking through a box of cast metal plaques, I came across this one (actually, I found two of them).
Sunday, October 12, 2025
Halloween Revisited -- Brew Print
Some of the things I find that I love the most have no monetary value, not that that should be a shock or unusual. This blueprint of a witch stands out. Why was it made? We'll never know. But I'm glad it was.
I found this smashed in the bottom of a box in the basement at the same estate sale where I found "Tom's Book".
Saturday, October 11, 2025
Halloween Revisited -- Halloween Monster Fun Find
It's the weekend which it's time for reruns Halloween Revisited where we revisit past years' posts while I take a break. Today's comes from 2013.
It's always fun to find something extra in the items I buy at garage and estate sales. Usually, I find them in in books, entrapped for years in the dark of the pages. It might be a pressed flower, a four-leaf clover, lost love notes or even hidden tardy slips. Over the summer I even found two $2 bills tucked inside a CB jargon book.
I was at an estate sale a couple of weeks back and found a few Halloween records. One was "Sounds to Make You Shiver" by Pickwick Records published in 1974.