Happiness

So, I wasn't planning on putting any words with the picture challenge, but I had to tell you about this.

HAPPINESS IS A HOPE CHEST...

to me anyways.

Yesterday I went with my Mom and Grandma to a local thrift store. I had only found an apron, until we went into the furniture room.

Then my Mom found it.

My hope chest.

 

It's an old Army footlocker....

made in 1940...

with a Yale sticker(maybe the soldier who owned it went to Yale after the war on one of those special soldier scholarships!)...

and a busted latch(my Dad's working on it. If you notice in the first picture, it's not on there.)...

and both leather handles in pretty good condition.

And the best part?

I got it for $9.95.

Happiness.