Post #797933 by danlovestikis on Wed, Oct 9, 2019 8:10 PM

Thank you Sandbartender. It's a bit inaccurate. We did spend around $300,000 since 1997. To do that we drove the same cars from that year and took most vacations at tiki events. The 8,000 items counted everything including simple shell necklaces. That's how many price tags I used. However some things just went right out the door from our rooms without being tagged. This is the life of a working couple with no children.

Thank you to Ray Wyland for sending PUNCH to us.

Here's a shorter link that takes you to the same place as above.

Link is here: https://punchdrink.com/articles/secret-lives-tiki-cocktail-bar-fanatics

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So I photographed the photographer as he took his photos in our home. Again the flash shows all the spots on the wall where I filled nail holes. They don't show otherwise. One day we will have the inside of our home painted but I'm in no hurry since I need to work on the Wish List.

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Now these are photographs of the photos and text of the article. To see some of the photos you have to click on underlined words and it wasn't then easy to get back to the text. So here it is exaggerations and all. Of course I'm NOT 68!

We have a few things left in the garage to sell but after selling 90% of the collection we are now happy with our tiki decorated home and no massive collection. You can visit many of our items at Max's South Sea Hideaway in Grand Rapids, MI. We shipped entire rooms to him. It took us a month. We hope to visit there one day to see all our tiki babies on display.

Meanwhile I will be back to work on the Wish List. This is the month I would be working on the next crawl mug but I have retired after 10 years so I can catch up. Thank you all for the visit and all the support these past years. It's been a blast and it's no where near over. Cheers, Wendy