SPOILER ALERT! This post discusses the places the Canadian Pickers visit and the people they meet on the first episode of Season 4.
I just watched what may be the best-ever episode of the television show Canadian Pickers. The show always resonates with me because it's filmed in Canada and I'm a Canadian and because I have travelled to many of the places that hosts Scott Cozens and Sheldon Smithens visit. However, there was something about this show that made me really, really, really, want to go picking, shopping, thrifting or whatever you call it right NOW...
I love how the show started out in a barber shop in Toronto that celebrates the Toronto Maple Leafs Hockey team in full color, even though hockey is not my favorite sport.
I also enjoyed the
second visit in Toronto to the kind of antique store that I would like to shop
in, one that's filled to the rafters with stuff including odds and ends and
interesting bits and pieces. Both Scott and Sheldon met the challenge of
finding a great item for resale purposes at a cost of $50. I am not sure I could have met the challenge but it would have been fun to try.
Next the show took us
to visit a couple who built a home of logs. The couple also constructed
the garage to look like an old-time service station. How cool is that? I'm not
so interested in the stuff that the Canadian Pickers picked here but the
location was pretty interesting and I think it would make a good set up for an eBay seller,
but I digress…
Next we visited the
home of a 16-year-old who both collects for himself and operates a business buying
and selling antiques. We enter a suburban home not unlike the one that I live
in, and there are no collectible items in sight. It turns out that the young
man keeps all of his antiques in his bedroom. If you ever get the chance to see
this episode, prepare to be amazed. I think it is really great what this young
man has learned and accomplished so far about antiques and about negotiating. In
the show footage, he appeared to have no trouble matching wits with the
Canadian Pickers.
It was a fabulous
episode of an always interesting show. If you haven't tuned into the
Canadian Pickers, which I believe is known as the Cash Cowboys in some markets,
what are you waiting for? At each pick you will meet some interesting people,
learn a great story and uncover some history.
I know from
experience that it is not as easy to gather a bunch of great places to “pick”
as this show made it look. On a recent vacation, when we had a few hours to
shop, we struggled to find some good stops because we had not done any advance
planning. We did not come home empty-handed, but we weren't as successful as we could have been.
We did find some collectible Alexander Keith's products as well as some beautiful handmade baby quilts, which are nothing like what you usually see the
Canadian Pickers picking but nevertheless are still quite interesting
and will make a beautiful addition to a baby's nursery either as a crip or lap quilt or as
a wall hanging. As an added bonus, these purchases will pay for the gas for our Nova Scotia vacation.
How about you? Do
you watch any of the shows about antiques, collectibles, auctions, collecting,
picking or even just vintage-style? Which ones would you recommend?
EDITED 2019 to note that the Canadian Pickers program finished and the Facebook page wound down around 2014.
EDITED 2019 to note that the Canadian Pickers program finished and the Facebook page wound down around 2014.
Brenda
Treasures By Brenda
You never know what
treasures
I might have in
store for you!
