Vintage Thingies Thursday - Men's Avon Aftershave Bottles

Well my goodness I am ever running late with Vintage Thingies Thursday! I have just had a myriad of chores to complete since I was sick last week. What's up with men? It doesn't seem to bother them to live in a cesspool while good ole' wife and mom lies wracked with fever and pain. Does it ever occur that I might die and then who would clean up their mess? Dear friends, when I die, if you are still around, please come to my house and clean before the funeral home picks up my body. I just will not rest-in-peace if people are whispering about my dirty house.

Okay, on a less morbid topic, here are my Vintage Thingies for Thursday. In honor of President's Day which was supposed to be acknowledged on February 16th, and because Suzanne at Colorado Lady pulled out her Avon cuties last week and forced me to go prowling through the bowels of my closet and not even finding for what I was looking, this is what you get!

Men's cologne decanters by Avon! Isn't this the epitome of weirdness? Avon has always been known for their odd decanters of perfume and cologne, but holy Wild Country this is crazy. I wonder if Jimmy Carter had George Washington Wild Country aftershave on his bathroom shelf during the 1970's while he was president? I wonder if Obama would like the Lincoln Everest Aftershave?

And here we have the Volkswagon Bus with a motorcycle lid. Can't you just see MDH in his bad polyester suit, getting ready for a date?

And who could ever live without the Deep Woods Country Lantern? I am taking this baby camping for sure the next time I decide to sleep in the woods. I'm thinking if I pour the cologne around the perimeter of the camp and throw a match in the scent's general direction, not a bug, spider, snake or bear in the whole Great Smoky Mountains would venture near me for several weeks. Really!

MDH's sweet grandmother sold Avon for over fifty years. She has every Avon bottle that has ever been produced. As she has gotten older, she has started gift giving for Christmas with some of the older, new in the box, never had the lid off colognes to her grandsons. We realize what treasures they are and have kept them unopened and securely put away. (Heaven forbid they were to break and cologne spill everywhere, allergies you know :) Until Now! Just to share with you!

Oh and I also found this baby quilt that I cross-stitched and quilted while I was pregnant with my first born son. Oscar, of course, thought it was his baby quilt!

Thanks for reading, Rosie.