I admit it. I need a 12 step program. Do they have one for someone that can't stop buying green glass?
It all started back in the late 1980s when we bought a new home (the one shown in my first post). It was a 2 family house that we converted to a 1 family a few years later. 12 rooms and we had the deeds back to 1854. It had lots of space to fill with knick-knacks and 2 fireplaces with mantles that looked gorgeous with vintage glassware on them.
At the time I was the secretary for our church and their sister church in the next town that we shared a minister with. Both churches had annual rummage sales. I clearly remember going to the Willowvale Methodist Church rummage sale with my mother and spotting a square dark green glass vase that I thought would look nice on the mantle in the living room. I bought a couple more pieces of green glass over the next year or so and when my family saw how much I liked them they started buying them for me. Plus, I was still buying green glass that had expanded to Anchor Hocking's Forest Green Charm - the square dishes. I never buy duplicates but there are so many different pieces out there. After a few years the whole mantle was full of green glass. Then, we bought an oak curved glass front china cabinet. After that was full they spread to shelves hung on the walls, bottles up the staircase, set on tables, tops of furniture, etc. But the house was big enough to hold it all with room to spare.
The problem came when I moved to the smaller house. I still have the china cabinet full, plus more totes of green glass in the basement than I would like to admit. Sometimes when I am downstairs I will spy a tote and open it to find more green that I had forgotten about. I even have the original square vase and another just like that is taller. They sit on the table in front of our couch with remotes in one and pens, scissors, etc. in the other.
This collection might not be a problem if I was able just enjoy what I have or even to part with some of them. I've tried to stop. But I fell off the wagon again today when I went to a local antique co-op that is closing and everything is on sale. I found myself coming home with yet another large green glass vase. I had never seen this one before so couldn't pass it up for a mere 75 cents. But, where am I going to put it?
Please - can someone help me?
