hello hello! i hope you all are enjoying the fun & spirit of the holiday season! i have been a heavy hitter on the thrift store circuit lately. this time of year i scour for holiday baubles & other seasonal delights that appear in their aisles.
so today seemed like a good time to share a thrift store $ menu post. it's getting increasingly harder to find anything worth mentioning under a buck these days....but when i happened on a pile of "expired" clocks in ho-hum cases...i looked @ their dials with the only thought that came to mind = "it's hammer time".
enter in said "hammer" + pair of safety glasses. a few fell blows to their non-descript cases and...for a cost less than that of a big mac value meal...i produced an artful gathering of "faces" you will see {below}. they seemed much happier minus their plastic counterparts.
so...with mention of thrift stores..i must share a story. yesterday found me visiting my sister...picking her brain for area thrift stores that were not neat & organized. i prefer a challenge.
oh did she have one for me. a goodwill dubbed the "wearhouse". where trains of blue bins on wheels sat in chaos with stuffed animals heaped together w/ pots & pans, area rugs and stray shoes. i asked and she delivered! no organization here!
i held my breath and dove in. then. an announcement.
"please step back from row #4. we are pulling it for restocking". with that a fella ran out and pulled the "junk train" away. 10 minutes later it reappeared heaping with, well your guess is as good as mine, let's say stuff.
i looked @ sis and giggled at the line-up of carts forming near it. but no shopping i learned til the buzzer. and let me tell you. the signal of the buzzer made black friday seem like a picnic in the park. i am going to say one word. HOLYCOW! {ok...really two words} i almost feared for my life! i did manage to make one pick of heap. a monopoly game complete with it's old silver game pieces. that hat and scottie were worth risking my arm.
oh. one last thing about the wearhouse. no prices on anything. nope. you pay for it by the pound! now that was a new one even for this veteran thrifter! we left there will a cart half-full of odds n ends and dropped only $3.81. of course a monopoly game, belts, clothespins and few books really doesn't weight that much though. but the experience was worth it all on it's own.
if there is a next time i am going in with a helmet. and maybe armor. then perhaps i can elbow my way thru the junk bins like the rest of those pros! i'll leave the hammer in the car though. hate to be carted off yielding a deadly weapon. though it may help me score some better bounty!
so go forth and junk @ your own risk. it's a jungle out there!
tis the season to be merry. or in this case...SCARY!
