Saturday Cleaning Pt.2 - The Box of Sadness

 

So as mentioned before, I got quite a bit of cleaning done this past Saturday and found some really cool things.  But alas, it was not all fun and games.  I found something horrible buried in the back of the closet -- something I had tried to forget about.  Let me tell you about the incident in a blog post titled "Saturday Cleaning Pt. 2-- The Box of Sadness"

Ahem...

Once upon a time there was a beautiful mushroom teapot that lived on the site Modcloth.  It was a very desirable teapot and a lot of visitors came from far and wide to view the beautiful vessel.  Unfortunately, the teapot could only belong to one individual so a race ensued to see who could capture it first.  A visitor by the name of Alex won over the lovely teapot and hoped to soon welcome it to her home.  It was the first victory for Alex and she was understandably quite excited.  

"She's too excited!" thought the evil C. Post and he intercepted the teapot on it's journey to Alex's condo.  With the mushroom teapot in his hand, the evil C. Post raised his arm above his head and flung the ceramic container to the ground smashing it into a thousand pieces.  He then placed the shattered teapot back into it's traveling case and sent the vessel on it's way.  Alex came home one afternoon and found the teapot's traveling case nestled on her doorstep.  Excitedly she opened the case but reeled back when she saw inside.  "WHHHHYYYYY!!!"

I purchased this teapot from Modcloth only to have it arrive in a hundred pieces.  I was so excited to add this to my new home (I bought it around the time we first purchased our condo) plus it was the first time I had ever won a Modcloth vintage item.  So bummed when it arrived destroyed.  It was the fault of the delivery people as Modcloth clearly marked that it was fragile and it seemed to be packed fairly well.  

Modcloth was super cool about the whole incident, very apologetic, and refunded my money right away.  I had kept the smashed teapot with the intent of gluing it back together but there are too many tiny slivers to do that.  I guess I should part with it...I don't need it staring at me as a constant reminder of what could have been.

I'm sure it'll be a long time before I win another Modcloth vintage find.  Hopefully the next time I can actually enjoy it.

Have any of you ever won a vintage item from Modcloth? Have a similar parcel delivery horror story?

Happy Monday

Alex & Arthur