Thrift Thursday

Last Saturday Maren and I packed up and headed out early to hit the yard sales before it got too darn hot. Our first stop was a church sale I'd seen advertised earlier in the week as starting at 8:00 am. We got there at 8:30 and they were still unloading boxes and furniture off of trucks and nothing was put out on tables--just piles and piles of boxes. Argh! Normally pawing through boxes doesn't bother me but that takes a lot of time and attention, something I don't have when Maren is in tow. I poked through a few boxes but got frustrated and made to leave, but not before Maren latched onto a little hard-shell Hello Kitty rolling suitcase. She dragged that thing the whole time we were there and I knew if I made her put it back she would throw a fit of epic proportions, and I really didn't want to start out my yard sale day on that note. Although I usually have a policy of NO NEGOTIATING WITH TERRORISTS, sometimes it's worth $1 and a little bend in the rules for some peace and quiet!

We only hit a few more sales after that, but I found enough goodies to feel like I'd had a productive day. All of the things pictured came from one sale. It was an older couple and they were selling off some of his mother's Christmas things. Yay for me! There was an old box of Shiny Brites with great graphics but it had a huge tear down the front so I passed it up. I bought the three German pressed paper bowls at the top for 50¢ each (there are two of the flowered design). The stuff at left came from the 25¢ box: an old box of ornament hangers, a sparkly bottlebrush tree, a bag with the three birdies and the plastic Made in Japan reindeer, the Hallmark ornament, and the MIJ Santa on Stork ornament.

Also from the depths of the 50¢ box were this vintage box of candles and crepe paper napkins (unused and in perfect condition, will probably end up on eBay this fall) and the antique flower frog. I've been looking for a flower frog like this forever, since I've seen them used to great effect as photo and card holders. This one is crescent-shaped and it must be made of lead or something because it weighs a ton! My only other buys were a Pyrex pie plate for my pie giveaway prize and a blue glass Ball jar with a zinc lid. The jar is an ugly 1976 repro so it will get tossed but the lid fits perfectly on a good blue lid-less jar that I already had. I didn't buy much but I love everything that I found, so in this case quality definitely won out over quantity!