I’m quite often asked WHY I’ve chosen such an unusual hobby for a woman. I’m not offended. I mean, I get it. Some girls knit. Some girls garden. Some girls do yoga, zumba, pilates… I choose to dig through old bottle dumps, rummage around antique shops, and swing a metal detector.

Whenever someone asks that inevitable question, I always attribute my treasure-hunting obsession to my teenage years living in New England. But the more I’m asked the question and the more I consider the question, the more I realize that my treasure obsession is older than my teenage years crawling through dumps searching for bottles and pottery. I use the term treasure, but I’m not talking about gold doubloons…

I think that perhaps in some past life, I may have been a pirate.

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