A word prompt to get your creativity flowing this weekend. How you use the prompt is up to you. Write a piece of flash fiction, a poem, a chapter for your novel…anything you like. Or take the challenge below – there are no prizes – it’s not a competition but rather a fun writing exercise. If you want to share what you come up with, please leave a link to it in Sammi’s comment section.
Word Prompt
Vintage
Challenge
THE CLASSICS
There’s something sobering about finding things at flea markets I remember from childhood in the vintage section. What does that make me?
Mom and me in front of the whatnot self.
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Second Graders in Lunchline
Rochelle Wisoff-Fields-Addicted to Purple 
It makes you a bit like me! I went to a classic car show recently and some of the ancient vehicles on show there I’d had new in my youth! BTW, love that last photo!
My twenty-two words!
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Dear Keith,
It does make you think, doesn’t it? I remember thinking my parents were old because they didn’t have television when they were kids. Since I’ve set my photo gallery on “random” I’m not sure which last photo you mean. 😉 Thank you in any event.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Oh yes, it’s top right now! It’s the one with the cute grin a floppy hat
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Dear Rochelle,
It makes you some quality stuff, that’s what!
Shalom and lotsa love,
Dale
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Dear Dale,
You make me so glad we’re friends. 😀 ❤ Thank you.
Shalom and lotsa hugs,
Rochelle
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Right back at you my friend!
xoxo
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Hey, when you were young, you found me in the vintage section. I think you did ok with that. Lol. That face in the 3rd grade lunch room picture always reminds me how cute you were, are and shall remain. Good job.
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Dear Jan,
Looking back to those days of being young, I’d now say I found you in the children’s department. You such an old man of 22.5 when I was a tender 16. Thanks for the sweet words, m’luv. ❤ ❤ ❤
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I think nostalgia is a powerful feeling. I’ve not been to flea markets looking for toys or things from childhood, but perhaps I should see if I evoke something similar!
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Dear H.H.R.
There is a lot too nostalgia. You can see where the word prompt sent me. 😉 Thank you.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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A Classic, of course. Nothing better than a classic.
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Thank you for the kind words, Jo. 😀
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Makes you a classic who’d earned some life under her belt, is what I’d think it does … I was with my sister at Historical Richmond Village (on Staten Island) earlier this month (it is an area w/ a few dozen buildings, some from the 1600s, restored or partially restored, and some that have their interior as it would have been – from lodging of people of different means, to the crafts and workshops one would have seen over the years — a carpenter, a tinsmith, a one-room school house, etc), and went into the restored General Store … — we spent half the time laughing about how we had some of those things in the house growing up. I’m not sure whether the tour guide thought we were aliens or just beyond a little strange. 🙂
Vintage Moi.
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Na;ama Y’karah,
So many things we took for granted growing up that are collectors’ items now. I’ve been seeing those colorful aluminum drinking glasses everywhere that my mother couldn’t wait to get rid of. And my list could go on. Thank you so much for your kind words.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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🙂 We – and my mom says the same and my grandmother probably had experienced even more of it – are living in a time of such rapid change, that it is no wonder so much becomes vintage so quickly … I’m holding on to my “dino-TV” (it still has a slot for both a DVD and a VCR … all in working order …). I is a workhorse, weight as much as I do if not more, and I love it. So there’s that. 😉
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If it ain’t broke, why fix it? 😉
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Let alone ‘why ditch it’? I am rather proud of my “living history” piece … 😉
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I have a couch and love seat circa 1970 something we inherited from my mother-in-law. They go well in the living room with a dresser a 19th century oak dresser and a few other eclectic pieces. Love ’em. 😉
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Thar you go! 🙂 Perfection! 🙂
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One of a kind, a very special one.
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Dear Neel,
You made me blush. Thank you.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Oh yes, it’s top right now! It’s the one with the cute grin a floppy hat
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Dear Amir,
I’ve been accused of having a rubber face. 😉
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Good one! It doesn’t happen to me often, as I don’t get out much, but when it does it feels bittersweet.
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Dear Zael,
Bittersweet is a good word. A get a heavy surge of nostalgia and flash backs. 😉 Thank you.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Most welcome 🙂
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