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pnickols
True Blue Farmgirl
808 Posts
Patricia
Parma
Ohio
808 Posts |
 Posted - Dec 20 2011 : 04:03:55 AM
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| went to the goodwill, found a 1972 Betty Crocker cookbook for $2 plus a pretty light green sweater with a beaded neckline I can wear to work. I do love thrifting |
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laurentany
True Blue Farmgirl
3259 Posts
Laurie
Patchogue
NY
USA
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Posted - Dec 20 2011 : 04:29:11 AM
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Me too!
I have found so many wonderful things over the years. One of my favorite small thrifts at a church just "closed" for winter break. They re-open in mid February and of course I cant wait. I recently got my son a pair of Bauer Ice Skates for $5, and have picked up countless sweaters for myself for just 50cents and $1. Its amazing- and it makes you realize that you never want to go into the store and pay $30 for a sweater again!
I also just got 2 very old Ball canning jars- one of which is the aqua blue color...both for only $2!
Oh how I love a good bargain.
~Laurie
"Little Hen House on the Island"
Farmgirl Sister#1403
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.. |
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FieldsofThyme
Farmgirl Guide & Schoolmarm / Chapter Leader
4928 Posts
USA
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graciegreeneyes
True Blue Farmgirl
3107 Posts
Amy Grace
Rosalia
WA
USA
3107 Posts |
Posted - Dec 20 2011 : 06:13:29 AM
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I love thrifting - last year I got caught short on Christmas - went to our itty-bitty small town thrift store and found the perfect gift for three different people. And I totally agree Laurie - why ever pay $30 plus when you find perfectly good stuff for so little?
Farmgirl #224
"use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without"
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ceejay48
Farmgirl Legend/Schoolmarm/Sharpshooter
13635 Posts
CeeJay (CJ)
Dolores
Colorado
USA
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windswept
Farmgirl in Training
19 Posts
dawn
youngsville
new york
USA
19 Posts |
Posted - Dec 20 2011 : 6:10:27 PM
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I love thrift stores!! I recently got a LLBean jacket...with the orginal tags never worn, minus the hood....for $6.00! Called LLBean with the model number to get a hood replacement. the operator said the jacket sells for $145.00
liven the life I love! |
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FarmDream
True Blue Farmgirl
1085 Posts
Julie
TX
USA
1085 Posts |
Posted - Dec 20 2011 : 6:44:01 PM
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Ooo..good deal on that jacket Dawn. I love thrifting, or junking. I've found some amazing things. I have a $150 dress never worn for $7. Why anyone would have paid 150 in the first place is beyond me. I bought my breadmaker at Goodwill also for $10. Target sends their unsold shoes there, too. I love consignment shops also. I think I could spend all day looking in those places.
~FarmDream is Farmgirl Sister #3069
Live Today, Cherish Yesterday, Dream Tomorrow
http://naturaljulie.etsy.com
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Ursula Norsedottir
Farmgirl in Training
37 Posts
Amanda
Nebraska
37 Posts |
Posted - Dec 20 2011 : 7:09:33 PM
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I spent $20 at a little thrift place down the road, and I got 4 pieces of clothes for the kids, brand new high end salt and pepper grinder, a lovely goat statue, a hand-made real leather cowgirls outfit, and an antique meat grinder in perfect shape with 4 different dies. Why shop new??
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katmom
True Blue Farmgirl
17161 Posts
Grace
WACAL Gal
WashCalif.
USA
17161 Posts |
Posted - Dec 20 2011 : 9:31:46 PM
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Ditto, I luv the Quest of thrifting... you just never know what you are going to find.
I recently got a Pendleton Woolen Mills catalogue, it had some incredable wool pillows but at $60 I thought, NOT! Needless to say I just found a blue/green plaid 100%wool Pendleton shirt...for $5.95... guess who is going to cut it up and make a deco pillow out of it!?!.... I also found a suede skirt, $4.95 which I plan to cut up and make into a leather deco pillow, but first I'll 'stamp' some motifs on it with fabric ink. If it doesn't turn out, no big deal, I'll just reverse it and deco it with faux tourquise & silver embellishments.
AmyGrace... I love your Thrift store in Rosiallia.... it's been over a year since I have been down there....
Might be a good Spring trip, plus then I can catch up w/Michelle & the new baby.
>^..^<
Happiness is being a katmom.
"Is it time for my Dirt Manicure yet!"
www.katmom4.blogspot.com & http://www.graciesvictorianrose.blogspot.com
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pnickols
True Blue Farmgirl
808 Posts
Patricia
Parma
Ohio
808 Posts |
Posted - Dec 21 2011 : 04:36:50 AM
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| so glad I share the thrifting disease with so many of you! I so agree that I would never pay outrageous prices for clothes, I walk around the store, see what I like than go look for like stuff at my thrift store. my two girls asked to go look for t-shirts at the salvation army store ! go girls ! |
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graciegreeneyes
True Blue Farmgirl
3107 Posts
Amy Grace
Rosalia
WA
USA
3107 Posts |
Posted - Dec 21 2011 : 06:45:14 AM
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I come by my thrifting honestly - my mom is the queen of finding the perfect gift at the thrift store. I try to do as much of my gift shopping there as possible but I don't quite have her mojo I guess.
Farmgirl #224
"use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without"
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Sue Feely
True Blue Farmgirl
1044 Posts
Sue
Buffalo
New York
USA
1044 Posts |
Posted - Dec 21 2011 : 07:10:36 AM
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| Thrifting is my favorite; also for my husband! Almost always we can find a bargin at the thrift, things change from day to day so you have to keep going back! |
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ceejay48
Farmgirl Legend/Schoolmarm/Sharpshooter
13635 Posts
CeeJay (CJ)
Dolores
Colorado
USA
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windswept
Farmgirl in Training
19 Posts
dawn
youngsville
new york
USA
19 Posts |
Posted - Dec 21 2011 : 6:26:03 PM
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I wish we had a salvage yard around where we live. However never rule out just putting the word out..you never know what people have. Last My husband built a greenhouse for almost nothing!! A couple of neighbors do construction...one had extra #2 stone, another had a glass door and one had wire for shelves. A local camp was rebuilding the cabins....all the windows that we could want. The only thing we actually did buy was the clear roofing!! We had lettuce,radishes and onions in march...amazing for this area!!
liven the life I love! |
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annielaurel
True Blue Farmgirl
912 Posts
nancy
fernandina beach
florida
USA
912 Posts |
Posted - Dec 22 2011 : 04:54:50 AM
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Oh I wish we had a salvage yard where we live. My DH and I would love that place. We are regulars at our thrift shops here in our town. We find so many good things. What amuses me is finding things I have seen in the retails stores that I wanted a while back at a high price now selling for a really cheap price. The other day I saw one of the original Beany Babies, a series one, for sale for $1.99. I remember women standing in line for hours for those little babies.LOL
Nancy
Farmgirl Sister #2301
Laughing is good exercise. It is like jogging on the inside. |
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ceejay48
Farmgirl Legend/Schoolmarm/Sharpshooter
13635 Posts
CeeJay (CJ)
Dolores
Colorado
USA
13635 Posts |
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Kim L.
True Blue Farmgirl
162 Posts
Kimberly
Knoxville
TN
USA
162 Posts |
Posted - Dec 22 2011 : 3:26:23 PM
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I love thrifting and finding great bargains. My 14 year old daughter just recently stared joining me and LOVES it:) Can't wait to go again after the New Year and see what we can find!
~Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.~
Mother Teresa
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pnickols
True Blue Farmgirl
808 Posts
Patricia
Parma
Ohio
808 Posts |
Posted - Dec 22 2011 : 5:16:59 PM
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heritagehunter
True Blue Farmgirl
207 Posts
Julie
La Salle
Co
USA
207 Posts |
Posted - Dec 22 2011 : 8:14:59 PM
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| A new thirft shop is opening up next to where I work on the 2nd. I see in the window that they have a stand to display a quilt. I want it!! |
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darlenelovesart
True Blue Farmgirl
7613 Posts
darlene
Loleta
California
USA
7613 Posts |
Posted - Dec 22 2011 : 10:17:02 PM
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I love thrifting also, My grandmother took me to thrift stores when I was young, ah what good memories. I have gotten some nice gifts that way too.
It is just fun to see what you might find.
"When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life or in the life of another" Helen Keller |
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pnickols
True Blue Farmgirl
808 Posts
Patricia
Parma
Ohio
808 Posts |
Posted - Dec 23 2011 : 04:18:45 AM
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| Julie I want a quilt rack sooo bad ! I have several quilts my mother made and would love to display them on a stand. hope you get yours |
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nabrown42
True Blue Farmgirl
409 Posts
Nancy
Caneyville
KY
USA
409 Posts |
Posted - Dec 23 2011 : 08:40:22 AM
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Last week the little mission resale shop in our town announced it was closing. Hubby and I went down and I bought a brand new 100% leather purse from Italy for $4, he got a double insulated flannel jacket for $2 and I bought a 100% wool coat to tear apart for rug hooking material. I paid $1 for it! It's a lovely heather gray. Fortunately, one of the women who had been volunteering at the mission store bought the building and will run the shop for herself, not the church. It will reopen in January and she promised the same low prices. That's good because this is a very poor town and many of the people need all the help they can get. I had to laugh at myself, I saw a lovely basket that I wanted to buy until hubby pointed out that it was one that I had donated to the shop last month. No wonder I liked it. LOL.
"I've wept in the night for the shortness of sight that to someone's needs I've been blind; but I've yet to feel a twinge of regret for being a little too kind." |
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amarquardt
True Blue Farmgirl
61 Posts
Amy
Lindenhurst
Illinois
USA
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katmom
True Blue Farmgirl
17161 Posts
Grace
WACAL Gal
WashCalif.
USA
17161 Posts |
Posted - Dec 23 2011 : 8:59:58 PM
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Amy, what a great idea....
I just posted a few Thrift finds on both of my blogs tonight.....
What fun it is,,,, to go on a Quest for that one thing, what ever it may be.... and then not only find it but find it at a fantastic price!
Merry Christmas..
>^..^<
Happiness is being a katmom.
"Is it time for my Dirt Manicure yet!"
www.katmom4.blogspot.com & http://www.graciesvictorianrose.blogspot.com
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heritagehunter
True Blue Farmgirl
207 Posts
Julie
La Salle
Co
USA
207 Posts |
Posted - Dec 24 2011 : 03:53:43 AM
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Patricia, that's why I want that quilt rack, to display a quilt that my great-grandmother made.
I see they have put out silverware now. I see myself making more spoon bracelets in the future. |
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pnickols
True Blue Farmgirl
808 Posts
Patricia
Parma
Ohio
808 Posts |
Posted - Dec 24 2011 : 05:43:11 AM
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| I would love to see the quilt ! I have a red and white log cabin that my mom made for me that would look wonderful displayed I think |
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