Day #16
Coke
Have a Coke & a smile.
Coca-Cola has always been a favorite of mine. I have chosen Diet Coke as my cola of choice since I started drinking soda. I collect Coke memorabilia, can't even remember when I started collecting, I think maybe 4th grade? I'm not sure, but a long time ago and I have quite the collection, I have just continued to collect items along the way. I have decorated many rooms with my Coke collection. It started with just a few items around my bedroom, then when I got my own home... first it was in Cedar Rapids where we decorated a dining room (not a formal dining room, of course). Boy, was that fun to just decorate a whole room with my Coke stuff! Then when we were in Grand Jct, Colorado I decorated my kitchen, it was also in my kitchen in our rental home in Denver. When we bought a house in Denver we moved all the Coke stuff up to the spare bedroom. Here in West Des Moines it remained in the spare bedroom until just a couple of weeks ago.... now it is all in boxes! Yes, it's all in boxes, the "Coke" bedroom will become the "girls" room. My Coke collection will have to remain packed up until we can refinish the basement and then I can redecorate the basement with Coke! Coke Lore: Most people can agree on what Santa Clause looks like--- jolly, with a red suit and a white beard. But he did not always look that way, and Coca-Cola advertising actually helped shape this modern day image of Santa.