Thrift stores

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i like rescuing forlorn neglected objects also, such as a nice happy yellow meowing backscratcher complete with red-painted nails on its hands.

Haven't found much to buy lately. The last thing was a spring dress, white with green flowers, but it didn't end up looking very good on me (I don't bother trying on $5 dresses before I buy). Before that it was a pair of Windsor Smith pixie boots from a pre-loved designer wear place.

My dad likes doing that. He found this barrel shaped wine cabinet, fixed it up, gave it a nice paint and polish and it's now a centrepiece in his loungeroom.

Ooh, big Value Village sale tomorrow. (And Monday.)

Got quite a few tops for the sale.......

I've bought about 95% of my clothes from Value Village. My furniture are all found items from the street.

Well, you might say the same thing about me about the clothes, not the furniture, though.

I also 'liked' the Value Village facebook page; best thing I have done.

I have panic-attacks in normal stores sometimes, I can actually enjoy myself in thrift stores

I have realized that these types of stores is where I should do my clothes shopping........ much cheaper.

Anybody concur with me here?

I used to go to the Thrift Shop for the Blind in a nearby city whenever I had a chance. I got some really cool shirts there. Well, they were cool in the 60s and early 70s, anyway.

Years ago, a friend of mine who was in the process of becoming a professional musician and just starting his twenty or so years of touring was wearing a shirt that had to have come from the 1920s or 1930s. I had never seen that style of shirt except in really old movies. I asked him where he got it and he said that it was from a thrift shop near where he lived.

If you live in the United States, you may have seen a show called Storage Wars. It is about people who go to storage auctions where storage lockers for which the fees have not been paid and are well past due are auctioned off to the highest bidder. The bidder then goes through the locker estimating what he/she can sell the contents for to see if they will make much of a profit. Those valuations can be quite ridiculous.

There is a new one out called Storage Wars: New York (or something like that). In one of the first couple of shows, two guys bought a locker and was going through it. They found a cheap table that was seriously in need of repair and refinishing it. The first guy looked at it and said that it was worth $100. When the second suggested giving it a coat of paint, the first guy upped his appraisal to $500. The way that table looked, anyone who would pay $100 for it, painted or not, would have to be seriously stupid.

By the way, I've also bought some fairly decent cookware at thrift shops.

Yeah, thrift stores, are to me, an extension of the saying "One person's trash = another man's clothing collection."

So I went out this weekend to a few Value Villages; but sometimes you find some, sometimes not. The latter happened to me Saturday. Eh well.....

And now.....
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