Good Things Thursday
Just wanted to share that there are still good things in the world
I don’t know about you, but I have felt overwhelmed by all the bad news crammed in our brains. I thought maybe you could use a positivity break, like I do. So, enjoy!
Candy Wrapper Online Museum | Doll Family Appears | Stag Football | Poll
Candy Wrapper Museum
I was 15 years old when I started collecting, inspired by friends with cool collections like beer bottles from around the world. I wanted to start one of my own, but of what? I usually spent my few coins on candy at the 7-Eleven. The candy shelves were a wonderland of tasty treats with colorful wrappers and names, all clamoring: Pick me! Big Hunks, Milk Duds, Jujyfruits, Choco’Lite, Lemonhead… How could a girl decide?
Then inspiration struck. Instead of throwing away those wrappers, I would save them. I would create the Candy Wrapper Museum, where I envisioned that the wrappers would one day be enjoyed as art, nostalgia and humor. It was 1977, and teenage me had a plan: I would collect these wrappers throughout my lifetime, then open up the museum as a roadside attraction in my old age. I chose my first pieces, Nice Mice and Cinnamon Teddy Bears, and so began this journey. Friends caught the spirit of fun and donated pieces. Collecting became an affordable, novel way to explore the world around me, one that could turn even a mundane shopping trip into a treasure hunt.
Check out the Candy Wrapper Museum!
Doll Family Appears in Mailbox
Don Powell opened his mailbox one day last August and found, along with the usual mix of bills and pizza coupons, two small dolls sitting on a miniature couch near a tiny table.
The pair and their furniture came with a note: “We’ve decided to live here. Mary and Shelley.”
Powell first thought the homely wooden figurines – a man and a woman – were put in his mailbox by mistake. He wondered if someone in the neighborhood was playing a joke.
“I went around to the other homes on the cul-de-sac to see if anyone else had gotten dolls in their mailbox,” the 72-year-old said. “No one had. There’s a neighbor across the street named Shelly; I knocked on her door and asked if she had done it, but she said no.”
Read more—and it’s so worth it!—here!
Stag Football
A stag was spotted trying out a new football technique in a south-west London park.
The lone animal pushed the stray ball in the water toward the shore with its nose, but then tried using its antlers to lift it back on land.
Katie O’Lone captured the video as she stumbled across the sporty animal in Bushy Park in Richmond-upon-Thames.
“The stags often wallow in the river here in early evening,” said Katie. “But today one dribbled upstream having found an abandoned football stuck in the reeds.”
I saw that story about the dolls in the mailbox. Strange, but cool! I am seriously overwhelmed by the news. It's horrible. Thanks for the good news!