Bought a Cow and Husked Some Corn

The indoor flea market held its regularly scheduled sale over the weekend. Unfortunately, Mr. VJIMT was unable to go due to a race in which he was running. That's dedication -- missing a flea market for exercise. 

I have no such inclination -- the flea market IS my exercise! -- so I grabbed two of my besties and we headed out. I didn't score quite as many treasures as the previous week; I only made one purchase, but it was a good one!

Got quite an assortment of antique ledgers/diaries from the early 1900s.

A few of them have cool maps inside.

I haven't gotten through all of them, but some of the entries are fun. "Bought a cow" made me chuckle. "Helped Jonee kill a hog" was no big deal. And there must have been a lot of corn that season!

My favorite has to be this one with advertisements for Eline's Chocolate.

Cool graphics, even thought that kid has a mustache drawn on him.

And look at this -- you need an abundance of sweets and fats to feed your brain and muscle!

See? Chocolate. Not exercise. It says so right here in black and white.

I did make another stop later that day and found more goodies. Some photos were posted on my Facebook page if you want to get a sneak peak, and I'll blog about it next.

Comments

[Judy D.]

Flea marketing is also my preferred form of exercise! It must be so interesting to read the entries in the ledgers.

[Erica]

Those look so fun! My grandpa kept a ledger/diary and he also put things in it like "butchered a cow" or "Erica came out to visit today". He also tracked each and every penny he spent. I used to think it was funny that he did that but now I would love to have just one of his journals. Thanks for the memory!

~Erica

[KerryCan]

What a fun post! I always feel the need to pick up old diaries, too, but that one with the chocolate ads is fabulous! I guess it explains why I'm so darn smart-I've fed my brain a LOT of chocolate over the years!

[Melissa's Antiques]

I love old diaries like these! I have my great aunt's. She was born in 1915. Her entries are very similar to these.

[Kathy]

HaHa! I wonder how many mothers ran out to buy the 10 cent size! Thanks for sharing the chuckle.

[Annette]

I think those little books are a treasure! How fun to read them and look at the ads.