True Art Has A Price … And It's $65

Saturday I found myself wandering around an antiques store. Generally speaking, I avoid antiques stores because they smell weird and stuff is stacked from floor to ceiling. Stuff precariously stacked that high awakens some kind of normally dormant claustrophobia in me. I imagine the stuff falling on me, causing certain death. I'd really hate for my cause of death to be listed as 'blunt force trauma to the head likely caused by repeatedly being whacked with a vast collection of old egg beaters and folding yardsticks'.

Weird smell and claustrophobia aside, I browsed around this antique store for quite a while. Actually, it was about twenty minutes. But look at all the treasures I found.

A semi-beautiful swan … thing? 

Wait. What is it? A lamp? A sculpture? Some one's project from Ceramics 101 in college?

Oh. Yep. There it is. A switch.

This bad boy is definitely a lamp. Too bad the switch is located in the swan's heinie. That's just not right.

The swan lamp was marked at $65. I passed. Although I enjoy a good table lamp as much as the next person, anything north of twenty bucks for illuminating swan art is too steep for me.

I was in the basement of the antiques store when I saw something else that spoke to me.

According to the tag, it's a Joe Dirt Lead Foot. According to me, it needs to become the new gas pedal for my Honda. Pronto. According to my husband, for $65 it needs to stay on the shelf.

As I was pouting over the price tag on the foot pedal, I saw something truly amazing that spoke to me. I'll bet you can guess which item hanging on the wall I felt the need to own.

A red wooden guitar shaped clock with a picture of Elvis from his Aloha From Hawaii tour? Yes, please.

Listen up. Hons, that is true art. Museum quality art.

Like the swan heinie lamp and the gas pedal, the Elvis guitar had a $65 price tag.

I'm not entirely sure what's up with that, but apparently true art has a price tag … and it's $65. Pin It Now!