Vintage Scrapbooking: What’s not to get?

Recently on eBay I won a scrapbook from the 1950’s. I couldn’t wait for it to arrive and when it got here I wasn’t disappointed. It was beautiful… or at least I thought so.

What I received for my winning bid of $9.99 was a Whitman 25 cent scrapbook full of beautiful scraps from old Christmas and birthday cards from the fifties. There were magazine cut outs and scraps from old church bulletins. Carefully glued to the pages were lovely vintage pictures of children and even a cute advertisement for Dixie Cups from the fifties (I had no idea Dixie Cups were that old). A treasure indeed I was not disappointed. I looked through it several times slowly, savoring the pretty scraps before showing it to my husband.

“I don’t get it,” he murmured?

“What’s not to get,” I scowled?

“There’s no pictures,” he replied.

“Ah- well,” I started to explain, “this is an old school scrapbook. Back in the day, they didn’t have a lot of photo’s so people put pretty scraps of paper in to their scrapbooks- hence the term scrapbook.”

I don’t think my husband wanted a long educational lecture on ephemera and the history of scrapbooking. Frankly, I didn’t want to explain my new treasure, either. Either you get it or you don’t.