Winter Wonderland

Maybe because the view from my window this morning was this...

I finally get to use my new this :)

Last summer I had to sell my old winter jacket that I had been using the past 3 winters every day, because it looked more like it belonged to a homeless person. I hope this jacket will serve me better the next winters to come :) What was interesting when I was looking for a warm jacket was that this one costs as much as same kind of jackets in Mango, but mine is so much better quality! No feathers trying to see the daylight through the seams. And I can not even remember the brand of mine (and I'm a really brand-aware person). Sometimes branding like Mango's just concentrates in wrong areas. Quality is shit like H&M's, but prices (in Finland at least) are quite high. I don't get it. Or actually I do. That's why I just decided that I could stop wasting my time in the future and skip Mangos on my shopping trips. There's no point supporting companies that produce clothes that go straight to waste after few months. Like Iittala, I'm also against throwawayism :)

Tin boxes, more tin boxes!

Tin boxes are the № 1 thing I keep searching for in the 2nd hand markets and lucky for me I keep finding them every now and then. Here are the boxex I've found since June. Actually it would be really easy to carry them home constantly without requirements, but I'm really picky with them. They must send certain "eye candy -signal" to my brain with some level of retroness and beauty, they must be cheap and last of all, rustfree (or at least have only a little amount of rust and only on the inside). The most expensive of these is the upper left one with the text 'Rettigin sekoitus' (= Rettig's blend) and that was only 4€. I think it originally used to contain tobacco. I really wanted it because it's Finnish and it has a charming carving on the bottom saying 'isiltä Tertulle' (= from daddy to Terttu). And the seller told me that her little sister used to store all kinds of treasures in it when they were children :) Awww. 

My favourite is still the red one that used to contain some kind of Italian cookies, because it's perfect for keeping my spice bags in order! The one below that is from IKEA, but I bought it from someone for 10 cents and there I keep my breakfast oat bran. The big one was 3,5€, but I haven't found use for it yet. Maybe I'll just store some small knickknacks in it. Who cares? It's perfect even without a purpose!!