Green Vintage Candy Dish

I found this for $1 at Goodwill because yesterday purple and blue were $1.  I love Thursdays! It took awhile but I finally found it's twin going on eBay for about $35. Since I don't know yet how to sell on eBay, it occurred to me that maybe I should use the things I buy instead of have them sit in the back of my closet with my wedding dress and great-grandmother's quilt. I intend to hang up the quilt but need to find a place on my wall that's not hit too much by direct sunlight.  I feel so out of my league sometimes in loving and caring for vintage items.

I don't want to be a mini-hoarder or a real hoarder.  Every item has a story, whether we know it or not.  When it comes from Goodwill one can only imagine the travels the item has taken in its life.  For vintage items, like this one...it's been a long life.  It's outlived my grandmother's who owned it without breaking or cracking or getting tossed out with other junk or trash...and it finds itself on a shelf at Goodwill.  I'm sure it got to be a candy-dish at one point, probably earlier in it's life.  Who knows how long it's sat in a cupboard or hutch, looking pretty, because now as a vintage item, it's job is to look pretty, and not break.  I wish I knew its story and the story of its owner(s) who loved it and bought it or received it as a gift.

I don't think it belongs in the back of my closet until the day I decide to learn how to sell stuff on eBay, but I don't want it to break, get lost or stolen.  The cats would have a hey-day with it.  If I put candy in it their little paws would have no end of fun trying to get all the candy out, onto the floor and spread around the house.  If I put little scraps of paper in it, even better, from their perspective.

I guess I need to invest in a hutch.  Not sure when I might find one at Goodwill, or somewhere else.  If I could quit my day job to hutch-hunt, I would.  I think I missed my calling somehow.  I've been doing some thinking about that and how items reflect our culture (Material-Culture).

I'm pretty sure I was meant to be a hutch-hunting studier of Material-Culture/Recorder.
Oh well, for now I need to focus on one thing at a time...
My priority is to find a place on my wall for that quilt.