For presents and home decorations? 

Places like ebay can be great to get quality stuff for a fraction of what it was/should be. Going through some of these items - 38k similar items on a domestic site owned by ebay (tradera.)

The most expensive items are 60k usd or something stupid like that, but if look at low price points, there’s so much of amazing quality for pennies basically. Much from the 50 -60’s that looks brand new still. Probably from ppl that died and supply is too great.

Just that so much is from known artists and legendary glass works, signed etc - it’s almost insulting how cheap you can get some things. Got so many great deals I went a bit nuts.



Fratelli Gialletti - mid century italian, most expensive thing I got - 75 usd including shipping. Present for my older sister.

3 different pieces of crystal that matches each other - to give nephew as he got an old larger matching set family had since the 30’s (at his marriage)



About 15 bucks each.


Then got 4 crystal/glass vases from famous swedish kosta boda etc for 13 bucks each. Insane.



 


2 more from local quality glassworks - 10 - 15 bucks each (nuts):





From Japan:

Anyways, leaving this for tonight or will buy too much. You dudes getting/got any aesthetic artsy stuff or is it just me being homo?

Will look for deals on paintings etc next.

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Lol yeah true, I try to find stuff that have simple designs and good colors that can perhaps be modern always.

Anything is better than piss bottles I guess.

what if ur piss bottles are vintage 1940s coke bottles or something? that would be pretty cool

i like them a lot

i read that as granny p0rn.

Aye good point. Did you know a swede designed that classic coke bottle? Das it, we lurk in the background of history with useless shit.

lol

Nice!

swedes also are the makers of Huskvarna chainsaws which are top quality.

i have a few older pepsi bottles i have from the 60s

Aye, worked at that chainsaw factory some summers. Broke the manual packaging record! Put it on my first resume as had nothing else, lmao.

nice man. thats what all the pro guys use around here. husky or stihl. I have a few of both

Leilani Lei

I recognize that name for some odd reason.

Very nice, hope I can have some land as you later on and get more into those things.


Remember working at that factory for some months when their local hockey team, HV71; got their first national gold. Their hockey team means everything in such as a small place. The team all came to our Huskvarna factory with their golden helmets, lol ....and all working there celebrated. Not my area but was where my older sister moved and married so got to stay with them and appreciate some hockey.

it seems like the swedes, germans, and russians in particular love hockey, despite it being a "new world" aka NA sport. actually hockey was born in Nova scotia in a town called Windsor

Nice, never looked into history - just seemed to always have been a big sport here.

Edit: yeah, seems to have got a start here in the 1920's, but earlier over there.

I collect dust in my place ,I dont have to do shit

Mirin.

I love my china and crystal and would display it if I still had a china cabinet. It's in boxes in attic. As for knick knacks I'm not much of a fan of them. I don't like the cluttered look.

i'm a minimalist. i don't collect junk and clutter. junk and clutter is not peaceful and calming. minimalism and simplicity is.

Yup, tried mostly to get some vases for flowers by the windows.

Good point. But still get something a little nice. :)

Wut

No

I don't care about any of that stuff

LOL same here. I have all my nice stuff except a few crystal wine glasses packed away safe. One day ill display in my formal dining room.

get a few big large high quality pieces.

Then how do you decorate your home and windows? Chains and dildos?

Yeah was trying that, most finds are a bit small.

What about paddywhacks