We Do This Every Single Week. 004/100
For the past year or so my wife and I, every single Thursday without fail spend our day together doing what we call “Thrifting Thursday.” Thrifting Thursday is a day that spurred out of our love for going to weird antique and thrift stores. We both love oddities, vintage tech, antiques and old craftsmanship. We both are old souls in a way. This particular Thursday was extra rainy and I wish I had got more photos but I was having an off day with photography. So heres a shot of us on previous thrifting Thursday.
Thrifting with Tawnie 2023
So over the many Thursdays we have developed a ritual on these days where we hit our favorite shops in a certain order and then we often get pizza together or tacos and coffee, or all of the above.(I’m an adult I can do what I want). We normally come up with an idea in the days prior to what we “ need” in our home to add something extra. Be it a chair, curio cabinet, record player or a pierce of taxidermy. Nothing is too weird for our oddities cabinets ,or for us to have displayed on a shelf in our study.Oftentimes the stranger the item the better it is because those items always have stories. And at the end of the day and at the end of your life once moments are faded and gone all you have are stories to tell, stories of adventures, stories of the bizarre, stories of happier or even stories of sadder times. Those stories are often remembered through the items we keep.
Thrifting Thursday however is much more meaningful than just buying old stuff, as much as I like dead peoples things. It’s a day I hold very close to my heart, like a religious holiday thats why rain or shine, I always show up, its sacred. The day is so important because its one day every week that I know I will be spending with my wife, normally uninterrupted.It’s like a date night but so much better, it lasts longer, its more casual and relaxed and its always going to be something different. It’s a day of no expectations. where if we find something to take home we are thrilled and if we don’t we are thrilled nonetheless because we are just having a good time looking.
It was rainy out today.
Like many parents when our son was younger we spent every single moment being parents, not going on dates, neglecting our relationship in a way, not taking personal time to be us outside of being parents. We had no date nights, or weekends away without the kid for nearly 11 years. Every relationship needs that, I didn’t believe it until I was faced with the reality that mine did. I love my wife, with all my heart, great mother, great person, all around good human. When she’s home, she’s home, she gives her all to our home and our son. Thrifting Thursdays give us both time to relax, time to focus on us and our relationship or not focus at all and just be goofy, just exist and act like its 2009 when we first met.It allows me to feel our deep connection and fall in love again every Thursday.
Sometimes we will bring others along with us, when we know they are looking for old junk to put in their homes as well but typically its just the two of us and I’ll show up as long as she want to keep doing it because I wouldn’t trade it for anything in the world.
Stay Rad,
DREWxCIFER