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cheap from places you travel to and often lots to choose from. i even collect pretty postcards from antique stores and thrift stores, bonus points if there’s illegible cursive writing on the back from the 1920s!

@annien

Apr 16, 2024

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@mikzaga

what a weird shared niche interest!!! I love collecting vintage postcards and deciphering them. i once picked one up in an alleyway at 2am in venice, italy that was dated ON MY BIRTHDAY.. glitch in the matrix fr

Apr 16, 2024

@moonchild

annien love this! as a child I used to go to antique shops and spend hours looking through postcards - still got the collection. I found a postcard organiser in Muji, thinking of storing them that way

Apr 16, 2024

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Both modern and vintage. Modern ones are cheap souvenirs to get whenever I travel and are a great way to cover my walls. Vintage ones are fun since they give a little window into ordinary people’s lives in the past (especially if they have writing on them)

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Looking through the postcards at the antique mall

One of my favorite sections of any vintage store is the postcards/photo sections. You can usually find used ones that are full of love, and if you are lucky, draaamaaaaa. Oh, the things people wrote to each other about is so silly sometimes. A real sign of the times. You can be entertained for hours. Sometimes there are multiple written by the same people, so you really get to know the skinny on what their lives were like. You do need to know how to read cursive though, because every single letter is in the most insane handwriting you've ever seen.