well.....

we went to the antiques roadshow...

it was a fun experience...kind of like geriatric disneyland...a whole lot of old people standing in reeeeeeeeeeealy long lines looking for a thrill...Sanford said we weren't old enough to be there. I pointed out to him that we had to borrow stuff from people OLDER than us to take...ummm...old people have better crap...or at least older crap ;)

so, here are our items in order of appraising...

This is my Aunt JoAnn's doll from the fifties. She has a case FULL of outfits and hats and purses and several colors of cats-eye glasses. She is all about the accessories!

Poor thing has spent her entire life being called the wrong name. She is NOT a Ginger doll, her name is Muffy. Hmmm...maybe she was happier with Ginger...I mean Muffy? Really? Maybe in Connecticut...anyway....she's worth about $75 and each of her little outfits is worth about $10...

so around $200 total.

Then Sanford and I split up. He went and stood in the PAINTINGS line...that wrapped around the building..okay...maybe not, but it WAS almost 2 hours...and I went to the DECORATIVE ARTS line to get this checked out...something else borrowed from my Aunt...

Whatever could it be?? Antique...hand painted...wooden feet....lovely...perhaps folk art? victorian umbrella stand? decorated by someone famous? Nope...it's crap. The appraiser actually asked me why I brought a trash can to the roadshow. Lots of people liked it. My aunt likes it. My uncle said it was in his house as long as he can remember. It's pretty...but still crap. Worthless. Feel free to drop in your banana peels and chewed gum. It was the butt of innumerable jokes throughout the day. My husband quite enjoyed it...so at this point it's a priceless family relic...I'll have to see if my aunt will leave it to me someday! It is without a doubt the cutest trash can I've ever seen...but it has no monetary value.

so $0 total.

Next up were two paintings from Sanford's parents...paintings that his mom said were worth thousands of dollars...(ah nuts...I just scrolled down and realized only one painting loaded...I'm not messing with it. The painting are basically the same...rough palette knife strokes...one is a seascape and the other is a mission looking building and some shrubbery...)

We had a good time waiting in the line. The women in front of us were a crack up...sisters...one who flew in from New York just for the show. She brought an Indian looking rug with her to get appraised...it had butterflies...it was cool...she paid $75 and it was worth $400-$600...she said if she set it in my trash can then the trash can could be worth $400.01-$600.01...yeah, the sisters were a crack up...I said something about being on the bullet train to hell and she said no...we were all just greasing out chutes...bwahahahahaha...so stealing that line! It's a winner!

Any way, after a 2 hour wait we got in and found out that we weren't retiring, or buying a new house, or a new car, or going on a cruise with the auction proceeds from these paintings. The artist was "prolific"...appraiser-ese for he painted TONS of crap and it's not worth much...

The appraiser worked hard looking to try to make it worth more money when we told him that Jane always said they were worth thousands...but again there was that word "prolific" and they are small and done "quickly"

total $300-$500 each.

So....yeah, monetarily...a let down , but honestly, none of it was our hoopla anyway...so what's it matter???

We saw Mark Walberg filming his ~welcome to San Diego~ intro, we saw a Keno brother, we had $8 cookies, we saw a half a lady getting pulled around in a wagon, we made fun of A LOT of people (who I'm sure were making fun of us for having a trash can ), and best of all...

I got this

yup...it's a gen-u-ine Antiques Roadshow T-shirt...that I won...in one of those spinning-wheel raffle give away thingies. I'm going to wear it every Monday night at 8 while I watch Roadshow until it's old and ratty...that or I'm going to wrap it in acid free tissue and preserve it in a lignin free box in unused condition so that Connor can take it to the roadshow in 50 years... ;)