I love it, just as I have loved every one of this author's "junk" books! I don't necessarily decorate with this stuff, but I enjoy seeing it and reading about it. As with the others, the book is crammed with pictures of old and semi-old household things. Some of it is what I can remember my mom and grandmother having in their kitchens. Some of it is stuff I'd never seen before, but there's very little of that. I think I've just about seen it all in my lifetime.Carter uses her collectibles in unusual ways at times. She also leaves them in pretty much the same condition in which she finds them. This would drive a lot of people crazy, maybe even me. But wow, the nostalgia is heart warming. I go over her junk books often, I have all of them, and I get the same feeling of nostalgia every time. It's always fun to slide back in time and picture the old homes with these sometimes odd looking, and sometimes very familiar items. If you get an occasional hankering for thrift shop shopping,and your heart gets mushy at the sight of old fashioned household accoutrements, I think you'd probably love Mary Randolph Carter's books, too. She's got a book about any kind of downhome junk you can imagine.