There are some things in life that will never happen.
- I will never willingly dye my hair blonde.
- I’m never going to make homemade macaroni and cheese to taste just like my grandmother’s recipe.
- I will never catch the winning touchdown in a Super Bowl game.
And:
- I will never pay $945.00 for an antique toy fire truck.
No, really. I can’t make these things up.
In case you can’t read that, let me help you out: Smith Miller Fire Truck 1950′s $945.00.
No. Really.
Not happening. Nuh-uh. Never.
FireDad and I found that particular fire truck during one of our geocaching-walk-date-things that we do because we’re dorky. It was in the window of a local antique shop, of which we have many. We stood there for awhile, blinking at the red truck in the window. We decided that even if we ever won the lottery that we don’t play, playing nearly a grand for a toy that would likely break if our kids touched it seemed somewhat silly.
I did some research, of course. Smith-Miller closed in the 1950′s and reopened decades later when a man who used to buy the trucks as a child bought the company. If you search eBay and other similar sites, you can find the truck pictured above ranging for as low as $150 for a well-loved truck all the way up to over $1000 for those in mint condition. The official website hasn’t been updated since 2009, and they don’t seem to have any trucks currently in stock. That’s a shame. I’d pay a normal amount for a truck made in the USA from a company that seems to be well-loved.
All the same, I won’t be paying $945 for the antique version.Yowza.
As I mentioned, I grabbed BigBrother a Toy Story reader as part of his end of school gift. The morning that I purchased it, I stopped in the office and was talking to a co-worker about Toy Story. She’s a mom to three boys so we spend a lot of time discussing Buzz, Woody and their buddies. She told me that she bought a Toy Story 3 coloring book and that thankfully she looked at it before she gave it to the boys.