Cheers

Wait…you collect wine corks too?

Shelley

In the US, the origin of the phrase “Put a cork in it” means to stop complaining, but, in our house, aka, Mr.’s Man Cave, we’ve taken it to another level.

We say, “If the cork fits in it, display it.”

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Enjoy the mini-tour of where we display our wine corks.  By the way, if you ask, Mr. he’d tell you, “There’s no room for complaining in his bar either!”

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Oh, and the barrel you see was used to make wine at our local favorite winery.

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They auctioned it off years ago, and I won. The profits went to the local animal shelter.  Imagine Mr.’s face when I told him what I bought.  He was speechless at first, but then he made it into a table with wheels for us to use in the Man Cave.

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PS – Do you collect silly recyclable things like beer caps and wine corks?  Let’s shout out 3 cheers for Mr. and his creativity with the corks and caps.  What’s your favorite bar joke?  

 

 

 

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30 thoughts on “Wait…you collect wine corks too?”

  1. I don’t have any good bar jokes. I forget each joke as soon as I hear it. I used to work with a bartender, though (I was a waitress when my kids were little) who could tell joke after joke after joke. He had a perfect joke memory. I always envied that!

    I do wonder about the handcuffs hanging on the wall of your man cave! 😉

    1. LOL – I’m the same way, I can’t tell a joke and I envy those who can. It’s a gift. The handcuffs were toys that our kids played with when they were young. Yeah…they even had small guns to play guns and robbers with! Terrible parents of young girls, eh? Mr. hung them there for conversational purposes – thanks for taking his bait ;-)!

    1. Thanks! I’ve heard the cork floors are nice.
      Hmm…maybe we could pull off a combination one with our supply of treasured collections – a cork and cap kind of look?

    1. Thank you, John. With wheels, we probably could do either. It weighs a lot! PS – you can’t steal it for your patio…! 😉

  5. We used to have huge Holiday parties at the house and I saved way too many of the wine corks. I use them in a decorative way around candles in hurricane lamps, but most are in the basement in bags, waiting for the muse of inspiration to hit me. Or to be thrown out. Equal chance of either happening.

    1. LOL – they’re precious aren’t they, so many possibilities, including holding space in bags. I’ve got a few of those too. Throwing them out…I haven’t gone that far yet, but like you there’s that chance of it happening. I’m wondering now, since I was thinking of your gardening adventure, if they’d work for in the bottom of pots to keep air in the bottom like rocks do? Hmm…see, options are endless or bottomless?!

  6. Sorry to say I don’t collect fun stuff like that. No room.
    However I am impressed by the Creative Cork Collection Creations. Great pics!

    1. Thank you. You know what, don’t tell, but I secretly look forward to the statement, “no room” due to downsizing, not by being overcome with collections! 🙂

  8. I love your collection and the different ways you display the corks. Love the wine barrel table! When we lived in the U.S. we kept all of our corks for a while and then took them to Whole Foods for recycling. One time we had so many corks that the store clerk thought we were the people from the cork recycling collection company! Ha ha ha.
    Now we keep just the special ones. We write the date and occasion on them. The rest of the corks (and yes there are a lot) make great kindling for our fireplace in the winter.

    1. Thank you! Oh, interesting about Whole Foods recycling them. That’s funny about the clerk. We don’t have one of those stores by us. I’ve sold them at thrift sales before, they are hot items. I would hope you have lots of corks living so close to wine production!!
      Maybe I’ll have to consider using extras for kindling too! Thanks for sharing!

  9. I’m not a big wine drinker and when I do they usually come with a twist top (Fuzzy Navel wine coolers). Love the wall color in the man cave and the decorations are great. Nice C, Shelley. You’ve got the hang of it!

    1. LOL – no cork issues for you then. My youngest picked out the wall color – she’s got a gift for making sure colors go well together. Thank you for the compliment(s)! 🙂

  11. That’s a cool man-cave barrel table. At first I thought you had filled the barrel with wine corks, but upon further inspection… perhaps a goal for the future? 😉

  12. I don’t have any interesting collections – this is a very cool man cave and you share it – even better. I am sure Mr. was delighted to find you won the barrel/keg and he has put it to good use.

    1. LOL – caps and corks…interesting ;-)! You made my day! Yes, Mr. was delighted after he figured out what to do with it. He has made that room a fun room, that’s for sure.

      1. I cleared a ton of stuff from my basement a few years ago. One thing I saved from traveling in Germany was all the cardboard coasters (with names of beer on them) that servers put under your glass to catch the drips (from a frosty mug, or spills). Had I known about you and Mr.’s room, the coasters would have been a fun addition – I pitched them, still in the rubber bands I had carried them home in. They are the second image in this post: https://lindaschaubblog.net/2017/09/19/tuesday-musings-29/://lindaschaubblog.net/2017/09/19/tuesday-musings-29/

        1. No worries, Linda, we have plenty of trinkets that we’ve made homes for! Thank you for sharing the link to the treasures you kept and then discarded. Do you miss anything (besides the coasters) that you discarded?

          1. No, I really don’t Shelley, but I still have many things downstairs, segregated into different Rubbermaid totes. A lot of them are hobbies from over the years and my intent was to use them when I retire. Lots of books, drawing supplies from an art class I took decades ago (the pastels have probably melted, the charcoals turned to powder and the pages of the sketchbook yellow and curling. I could spend another month down there … when we spoke about getting a treadmill, I took a good, long look down there and was left saying to myself “well, when you are retired, you can go out and walk any time of the day, not just relagated to the morning.”

          2. There’s something about revisiting old projects that is exhausting and doesn’t seem worth the time to invest in recovering them. I have that same kind of thing to work on this weekend. You’re right, you can walk whenever you want when you’re retired. 🙂

  13. That’s a very cool table for the man cave. I don’t collect things but do admire interesting collections by others. The wine corks qualify!

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