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| catscharm74 |
Posted - Jun 19 2009 : 12:08:17 PM
I go "junking", the more crappy, peeled, beat up, worn out something is, the more excited I get??? I found a wicker laundry basket at Goodwill for $2 and I just about did a cartwheel in the aisle. It has a few broken bits but I love it!!! The lady at the desk gave me .25 off because it was broken, which made me do a back flip and happy dance. I think that is why I hate to shop in a normal store unless it is the deep discount shelf where the scoundrels have been banished too. They are my favorite finds!!! 
Scott laughs at me and told me for our 5th anniversary this year, he is taking me to the dump and letting sift through the donate piles. I just about hugged his neck off!!! 
Heather
Yee-Haw, I am a cowgirl!!!
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| catscharm74 |
Posted - Jun 20 2009 : 06:08:13 AM
Funny story....I lived next door to a very old Victorian house and my roommate and I were both junkaholics...we knew the lady had passed away and that her family was coming to clean out the house. I imagined all the goodies in that house...they were stripping the house out- furniture, dishes, even the flooring and baseboards, etc...but they were not putting anything on the curb. Until one day, I came home from work and saw a small junk pile starting. I just about crawled out of my skin in excitement. The roommate and I decided to walk to dog later at night and check it out. The pile was perched near the road but not where a lot of people drove by. We actually took a tote bag with us!! It was very dark in that this area and we QUIETLY started picking through, MOUTHING the shrieks of joy as we found more and more..well..crap junk...ha...we were just about done and I was putting the pile back in a neat pile, as to not leave a mess, and something spooked the dog, who wrapped his leash around me legs and took off. I fell into a bed of flowers, legs straight up and my roommate running screaming down the street with the dog..yep...leaving me....I sat there for a minute thinking we had just woken up the neighborhood but nothing....I was able to haul home an old wooden stool, just missing a spindle and a bowl that looked scorched inside (I let it soak with a dryer sheet in hot water and it cleaned out beautiful). Roomie got a bunch of nice pieces of wood and some other things. The next day, we went back to rescue the flooring. We are talking 7-9 ft thick boards. Why they threw that out we will never know but we did meet the people and they told us come get what we wanted anytime. They did the house over too modern for my tastes.
Heather
Yee-Haw, I am a cowgirl!!!
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| paradiseplantation |
Posted - Jun 20 2009 : 05:53:41 AM
Heather -- you might not ever want to go shopping with me. My DH has a stroke everytime I go junkin. He makes me wait until he sees if he has enough glue, nails, screws and other items to repair my 'GREAT' deals!!!!!
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| dutchy |
Posted - Jun 19 2009 : 11:24:51 PM
LOL. I love to go junking too and always am on the lookout for freebies YAY!! My dear neighbor is in the process of cleaning out her attic and garage, yummo, lol . If she spots something that she thinks I might like she always tells me and I can go pick it up...for free, YAY! I have quite a few things she has given me. I DO like to shop in stores too, but only the cheap ones :)
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| catscharm74 |
Posted - Jun 19 2009 : 5:34:11 PM
I have to keep my sense of humor...have you met my family??? : O
Heather
Yee-Haw, I am a cowgirl!!!
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| Contrary Wife |
Posted - Jun 19 2009 : 5:22:39 PM
Good grief Heather your posts just crack me up.
Teresa Sue
Farmgirl Sister #316
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| catscharm74 |
Posted - Jun 19 2009 : 5:15:28 PM
Only when I get junky items do I suddenly become Elasta Girl!!! : ) I should get a super hero outfit with a "J" on it and I change into when I find a bargain... : )
Heather
Yee-Haw, I am a cowgirl!!!
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| junkjunkie |
Posted - Jun 19 2009 : 5:13:08 PM
Cartwheels and back flips...you must be very agile! Lol! ;) Junky things and free things on the curb are one of the joys of life!
"To have life in focus, we must have death in our field of vision." Benedictine monk John Main |
| catscharm74 |
Posted - Jun 19 2009 : 4:35:18 PM
I think that is why I am not a shopper. I like things to have a past..ooh, how sorrid... Alee...remember the milk crates and milk bottles you sold? I often wonder about the cows and the yummy warm milk that was put in those bottles and the gentle hands of that farmer. With the wicker basket, I have pictures of some woman in an apron, lovingly hanging her laundry in the sun. Seriously, I am the hardest person to shop for because I hate store bought, mass produced items. It is VERY rare I find something. I think my last home purchase was a HUGE picture frame on discount for $15 at a Big Lots kinda store...it holds a 24 x 36 picture and I am blowing up my favorite black and white picture of Scott and Charlie on the beach for Scott's B-day.
Heather
Yee-Haw, I am a cowgirl!!!
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| CherryMeDarlin |
Posted - Jun 19 2009 : 3:47:21 PM
Heather, I am the daughter of a certified dump "shopper"! My mama would get home from the dump with more than she left with and spend an hour on the phone calling up her friends to tell them that they'd never believe what she'd just found! She called me today from the thrift store, all excited because she found an inch-worm riding toy, popular in the early '70's. I used to have one! She bought it for $5 for the grandbabies!
~~Cherry~~
http://cherrymedarlin.blogspot.com
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| Alee |
Posted - Jun 19 2009 : 2:58:22 PM
Good for you, Heather! I love those things too!
Alee
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| catscharm74 |
Posted - Jun 19 2009 : 1:37:41 PM
I have been anti-materialism since I was kiddo growing up in family that emphasized the importance of things or status and the name brand on your jeans. I find my best stuff in the junk piles and usually people ask me where I found it and how cool it is!! I like to think I am saving a little bit of good ole' Mother Earth sister that way too!! : )
Heather
Yee-Haw, I am a cowgirl!!!
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| Bear5 |
Posted - Jun 19 2009 : 1:20:20 PM
Heather, you've probably realized the materialism in things. I sure have. I still like nice stuff, but, like you, I see "nice" in baskets like you purchased. Nice post.
Marly
"It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth- and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up- that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had." Elisabeth Kurler-Ross |
