Thursday's Thrifty Finds

Is is just me, or are the picking slim at your thrifts?  I went to two stores yesterday and spent $3.00 and then to another one today where I spent $7.00.  I am happy to not spend much $$$, but the stuff, the junk, we'll..it's just not there.  I think it will be a huge yard sale season.  Times are hard and people need extra money.  I think there will be a ton of yard sales and then they will send the leftovers to the thrifts.  Which is fine, I love a good yard sale even more than the thrift!  In fact, there is an Estate Sale this weekend!  I knew the lady that the house belonged to and I know the lady having the sale for her family.  She was an Administrator at school and died last year - she was only in her 60's.  Her only daughter had died a few years earlier, so there was no immediate family.  Her best friend was the Counselor at school, so she is handling the Estate.  Gee, now that I have said all that, I feel sort of bad about saying, "There's an Estate sale this weekend!'  Estate sales are sad in their own right.  But, to just junkers, they are fun too.  I appreciate the things that people acquired through their lives and I like to think that take them home and care for them.  So, I feel like they have gone to a new home and that is what the people would want in the first place.

So, on to the Thrift Finds of the Week.

A nice tall Matte White Hylan Pottery Vase.  I haven't found a nice piece of white pottery in a long time.  Thrift score!

A mystery item.  "What is that?" everyone asked at the thrift.  I haven't a clue what it is, but is is cool and I love it!  It is big and I think it has possibilities written all over it.  What shall I do with it? 

A sweet vintage Easter basket (my latest obsession), a spun cotton egg (my first!) and a flocked bunny.  I tell this same story every Easter, but here is goes again. When we cleaned out The Breadman's Mom's house, I found a yellow flocked bunny in this drawer and a pink one in that drawer and a blue on over there and a white one here and a brown one over there and so on and so on.  I ended up finding about twenty of them scattered around the house.  She had a ton of everything, so it wasn't that much of a surprise to find mass quantities of bunnies.  But, since I thought they were cute, I decided that would be the one quirky collection of hers that I would keep.  I put them all in a box near (not with or next to, but NEAR) the boxes of "Salvation Army" donations and well, you can guess what happened.  All those bunnies were gone.  So, now whenever I see one, I have to buy it.  Maybe when I am old and senile I will "think" they came from her house. 

 

A small cute picnic basket tin.

 

An old plastic bunny toy for 25¢.  Cute, huh?

A wee birthday figurine for my vintage Birthday collection. She's 5!

(Shown in front of a massive amount of Buttermints purchased at Walgreen's for 92¢)

The neat old Backgammon pieces came from a thrift and the cards are from Etsy.  I never heard of BEANO, but I had to get some for The Bean.

And lastly and more importantly, creepily, a mounted head.  Okaaaaaaaaaaaay.  It is sort of cute.  I mean, how wrong can you go with pink rick rack and pink and white gingham.  (Apparently, a little wrong.) It will go on Etsy and who knows, someone might buy it!

Speaking of people buying things - last Saturday I bought a book at the Super Cheap Thrift called "Hugh Hutchins of Old England".  It was a family history, printed in typewritten pages.  Big and thick.  I don't usually sell books. but this one looked like maybe a Genealogy person might need it.  I put it on Amazon and they suggested a price of $49.99.  What the heck, why not.  So, I listed it and surprise, surprise, it sold yesterday.  I paid 25¢ for it!  Woohoo!  Of course, Amazon took a nice chunk of it, (about $9.00), but still - not a bad profit.  Wish I could do that with all the junk good stuff I drag home!