The Creepiness Of Antique Stores

I was on an errand for my mother.  The goal, an elaborate hand held mirror.  Where would you find a beautiful antique hand mirror?  The obvious answer (to myself) was an antique store.  In museums and homes that are decorated from previous decades you always see hand mirrors associated with the old hairbrushes, so why wouldn't an antique store have a brush and hand mirror set for sale?  It seemed the most likely place.  Onward I went to search out antique stores.

My first stop was a store that I thought for certain would have what I wanted.  They have been around for years and have set up their shop to emulate a working store from the 50's while selling new and antique products.  I searched high and low to no avail.  If you want antique dishes and modern-day fabrics then they are the store for you.  Too bad this wasn't my goal.

The second "antique" store that I walked into I must admit was more of a junk store.  Yes, most of the items for sale were old and some could be considered "antiquated", but really it was just piles and piles of junk.  I'm amazed I made it out of there alive.  Rows and rows of shelving were stacked high with useless objects.  Sure, somewhere in that mess, there are probably some amazing treasures to be found, but I neither had the time nor truly the desire to go through every single isle and pile to find such a treasure.

Now comes in the creepiness.  I know that antique stores can carry all sorts of old things, but why do they insist on carrying the creepy items?  I do not like turning around a corner and running into a disconnected dummy head!  Seriously, is someone really going to walk into an antique store, take one look at a head from a mannequin and decide on the spot that it is something that they just have to have. No!  Not going to happen.

A few more antique stores were visited and many more creepy items were come across that I wont get into in order to save this blog from becoming extreme in its length, but the day was not a waste.  I did finally find the perfect hand mirror.....at a local craft store.  Why didn't I think of that first???