Getting lost can be good.
I got lost the other day. Not an uncommon thing for me. I decided rather than panic, get real angry with the GPS, myself and anyone else in the near vicinity, I would take it in stride and explore.
Wouldn’t you know it, my well trained eye spotted a thrift store across the street. Clearly, fate was at work.
A shoe box full of postcards at twenty-five cents a piece.
It was a good thing I was by myself, because I spent some time there. So much time in fact, that I had two different ‘keepers of the treasures’, a.k.a employees/volunteers, come by to ask if I needed any help. Yikes.
Anyway, I found quite an eclectic mix of vintage postcards in that shoe box. A whole lot of them were addressed to a Doctor here in Calgary spanning late 1950’s and early 1960’s from all over the world. But that’s a story for another time.
One of the more interesting ones was a type of postcard I had not seen before. It was this beauty, above, of a scenic view of the Rocky Mountains circa 1930’s.
Postcard and envelope all in one.
What is unusual about this postcard is that it is two sided and has perforated edges that, once you are done scribbling your note to long lost Auntie back East, you seal these edges together, folding up the postcard.
So, in actual fact, you have a postcard with double the writing space and an envelope of sorts. Auntie Dot then rips the perforated lines to unlock your message.
Unused vintage postcards can be used today.
You want to know the best part? The postcard had not been used! Am I going to send it? You betcha. There are lots of untold stories in my new collection of vintage postcards and I can’t wait to share them with you.
Last time I went thrifting I found some ordinary things and some paper to die for.
When was the last time you got lost? Did it lead to new adventures….or perhaps a new GPS?
Finally, it was a good thing that you got lost!
My husband and I are a good team in that sense: he usually doesn’t get lost in the mountains/countryside, and I usually don’t get lost in the city/town. But we don’t use GPS. We have realised that people with a GPS get lost more often! 😉
Eva, I think you and your husband are on to something; that people with a GPS get lost more often! My experience would support this anyway. Like your team approach too. 🙂