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When old is better than new

Title: Re: [GWL] Garden Gift Ideas
You can always find something shiny new and expensive to put under the tree. Cheap is harder.
 
When my girls were very young with a couple of bucks in their pocket to go Christmas shopping, I would prompt their mother to take them to an "antique" store, not the kind that has a Queen Anne sideboard in the window, but what might more appropriately be called a junk store. There they could find old crockery, worth big money except for maybe a chip or solid crack, pots, vases, and best of all, old garden tools better made than anything you'll find in a big box store, all within their meagre budget.
 
Today, twenty years and more later, some of my most prized garden possessions are these near-castoff gifts from my children. A geegaw from KMart would have been lost or broken a decade or two ago.
 
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