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~ - Subject: Dull People's ClubA new thing on FB is the whole "Dull Men's Club" or "Dull Women's Club" trend. It just groups of people talking about spoons and math problems and what the postman said and how they painted their house and it's not at all dull and it's just lovely. Everyone is careful to post things that are absolutely dull but also captivating and I love it.
When I first heard about it, I thought of how it would be so easy to translate to soi...I like talking about trinkets.
Trinket Trading and Trinket Traders are a new thing at theme'd Festivals.
People take trinkets with them to the festivals and look for other trinket traders to trade with.
Typically, a story or a little performance bit is added to the exchange.
The best encounters come from trading with the tiniest of fairgoers for whom the whole fair event has a magical quality about it.I found this fun description of trinket trading in a google search:
Trinkets are small, magical items representing your character and the world you come from. They can be traded with guests freely or in exchange for a task (or bribe). With the tradition of Trinket Trading, you can take home a piece of the magic with you.Also, so trinket traders don't find themselves being banned from fairs, it's important that the trinkets they trade have no actual value and do not compete with anything being sold by vendors. Most consider the best trinkets to be ones that remind you of the trader you got it from, such as something to do with their costume/character, or their interesting story, or song. If you watch a 4-year-old pick up a pebble right in front of you, just to have something to trade with you, it becomes the best trinket of the day, because of the joy shared with that little one.
Anyway, I like small trinkets that have modest value too. But, rather that trade those, I keep them at home on a trinket tray, a fancy name for the dish you hold or display your trinkets on/in. Trinkets from a fair are often jumbled into a pouch or a 'treasure' chest, because they are really just a collection of nonsense and silliness. A google of trinket trading haul will give an idea of how useless these items are, other than for their memories.
Your turn.
Share something dull.
I think I might qualify for "dull" women's club membership. Proudly!Social media seems to have deluded people to think that day-to-day life is boring. Guess what? It's not! It's real life. I find richness is seemingly mundane tasks, like assembling an IKEA Micke desk all by myself today. I admit that there was some foul language a time or two but when it was done and the drawer went in and worked like a charm, I celebrated the accomplishment.
no trinkets to talk about right now...but here's some dullness for you...the highlights of my day so are ordering new oven gloves and mittens...and 2 fancy waste baskets for under the kitchen sink...that match the recycling and garbage cans outside...
and maybe...just maybe...i might get a few dishes washed...that would be big excitement...
I have a few trinkets that are important to me....a belt buckle, a glass heart, some photos of my dad, some pieces of beaded artwork.
I know I like trinkets. If I had some or even just one I would not trade it for anything.
I've been picking mulberries for the chickens.
They love the caps and tops we pinched off the strawberries too.
polly - When we were kids we used to camp by the beach as a family on weekends. I remember looking for shells on the beach to bring home, and also to decorate the sadncastles we made. I'd completely forgotten that til I read your post!
There is a tall glass vase in the foyer full of rocks. Every beach I visit, I walk the sand, searching for a pretty, or unusual rock to bring home and place in that vase.
I have a treasure of pebbles that my beloved husband gathered when we were in Scotland on holiday. I love to just hold them because he's not here any more, but his love for these tiny items of geology still are.
I also have a much larger rock that he brought back, triangular and washed smooth by the sea. It's really heavy, and it weighs down the bottom of my cat tree, so that my idiot Toots cat doesn't knock the whole thing over when he gets over excited!
Well my 'trinket' from visiting my Mother is a burn on the back of my hand where the fire tossed a smoldering piece of small wood. The brown blister top came off at the grocery store today.
i'm with you, i don't consider every day life dull at all and i love trading stones with small children.
When doing shows i always kept a basket of polished and unpolished stones on my table so the kids had something to look at while mom was shopping and they didn't try to tear apart my displays . Usually i told them to pick something out to take home.Trinket memories are important. i keep an oval Yankee candle jar on my kitchen counter or window sill and place in odd little things i find while out hiking or just out and about.
/thank you for your story today
I know people who,instead of carrying a camera on vacation,collect one picture postcard from every place they visit.
To this day,I have returnable 6 1/2 ounce Coca Cola bottles from each town where I lived when I was young.