I Like Old Fashioned Things Stories of Experiences

I had a love of vintage and antiques since I was a teenager. Now I'm in my 40's and the love is diminished but not forgotten. Here are my favorite old things still worth keeping:
- tube radio, for the warmth of the music
- brass lamp...

I am fascinated by history and the way it relates to buildings, material things. These things left behind are echoes of what was, and simply by being near them, you can feel the impression of the past. I feel this way with many things...

1. Manners and etiquette. Politeness and proper behavior just makes everyday like nicer.
2. Chivalry. I'm a lady and I enjoy being treated like one. So gentle men, please tip your hats, stand when I enter a room, open doors for me, I...

I like old things but I like new things too. And I real love more then anything when old things look new. Like take my typewriter. When I fist got it I was liking it. But then when I got it done up, I felt like I was in that time area...

I'm a fan of what works, my late grandmother was too, though I'm more of a nostalgic that she was, I always remembered, she'd look forward to new things and seeing how they work and trying them to see if they did the trick, however, I...

They are sure from another era when character and charm counted.The older they are the better they look. No wonder they are of value.

I've always had a bit of a passion for and fascination with the old fashioned. I think it started when I was a little kid going through my grandmother's old knicknacks. Now, my grandmother had my mother fairly late in life--I don't know...

Most kids sold lemonade... I sold auntiques.
I'm only 13 and I have $3465 worth of stuff in my basement. 3 Edison phonographs 2 1920s phones a couple of 1850-1820 books snow white book 1936 comics from the sixties a 1909 wall crank...

I had older parents, whose ways were different than everyone else's. As a child, it was hard to be different. While everyone else called their parents' friends by their first names, we were to address adults as Mr. or Mrs. These days I...

I am a serious History Buff. Sometimes I wish I was born in the 20s just to see how life was back then.

I love to collect very old books and things like that. Nothing better than walking around a museum full of things from the past.

I love old furniture everything seemed to be built better and last much longer I also think that old furniture is much more stylish than today's products. I suppose things were built to last then because the majority of people just did...

I love how the older things were kept and how well taken care of they were. When you pass something down from generation to generation it's sentimental it has meaning and most older things were not like today and merely decorative they...

I think on EP I often come off as a hard core hillbilly witch but I have another life! At my core, I am an old fashioned thing. I like to be treated with respect as a woman, I like to stay home and make my home and my husband smile. I...

Yep, you have to like the old things when you are my age.  I of course read printed books still from time to time just so I can blow the dust off of them before handing it to a friend but now mainly read ebooks.  No dust and storage...

i am a fan of anything before my time basically to understand how it all works in a mechanical way i like old radios and clocks especially old cars and trucks they have style and class and had real men and women putting the parts...

so feminine, so classy, so sweet.. Absolutely love wearing them !!and the dresses and makeup of hollywood girls in the 50s...Gorgeous. I'm not saying nowadays it isn't good. it's just the older fashion has a way to my heart.

Confession: I use old ladies dusting powder after my bath. I love the fresh cool talcum powder that is so very softly scented and creates a puff of white magic when you open the lid. The clean aroma wafting around my fresh scrubbed...

I was walking into a mall, a baby in the stroller and my toddler walking with me.... I held the door open for a woman coming in behind me. No "Thank You" no nod nothing. You know we are supposedly in the age of political correctness...

... or are things made today so they are easy to dispose. Take the items on my coffee table in front of me for example. There is a plastic lighter, that can't be refilled. Once it's empty, it goes. There is a cell phone. A very...

I'm forward thinking when it comes to certain things like sex and politics, but I'm more old fashioned when it comes to my hobbies and the things I like.  My musical taste leans more toward oldies, and I like to wear dresses and skirts...