Magnets

Over the years, I seem to have acquired a small magnet collection. Some of them are souvenirs (I'm big on magnets and keychains), some gifts, and the rest are of course thrifted. I'm here to show you my thrifted ones!

These two come from the Roseville Hospice Thrift Store. I love them both. I was Rosie the Riveter for Halloween a few years ago, and Ed and I went to Yosemite for my birthday last year (they didn't have much in the souvenir department so I only got postcards when we were actually there). Plus how cute are those raccoons?!

These come from ... either a yard sale or a community yard sale at a church. I can't remember which. I do remember that they were in a box FULL of magnets.

The owl comes from a community church yard sale. He used to be sitting on a small "branch" made out of what looked like a piece of coral reef, but he fell of the fridge a few too many times and that part broke. The 2 comes from the same box as those three from above. (I just didn't want the owl in a photo all by his lonesome.)

These guys come from the Roseville Hospice Thrift Store. Such cute little veggies! I had to have them.

 

 

Happy Thrifting!

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Living Room Essentials

Since we just cleaned, I figured it'd be a good time to share with you our living room furniture. (Normally the coffee table is FULL of nonsense.)


First, the recliner.
While I've been told by many people how hideous this thing is, I personally love it. I found it at Salvation Army in Wilkes-Barre, PA during my senior year of college, and it was exactly what I was looking to add to my apartment bedroom. This chair has followed me since to my studio apartment, and now this one.

The couch.
We got this a few weeks after moving into our place here. We visited the Salt Mine Thrift Shop, since they have a lot of furniture and are close by. The guy working there knew we were filling up our new place, so he gave it to us for $50. It's in great shape, so that was a steal. They knew we only had a car, so they offered to deliver it (they were already making a furniture delivery that day) and help carry it into the apartment for another $10. Can't get any better than that!

The coffee table.
This also comes from the Salt Mine Thrift Shop. (It really is a great place to get furniture!)

(The rug is from Ollie's.)

Happy Thrifting!

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Free Stuff

Our 4th address was our final stop on Saturday (the 5th ended up being an auction preview). The information I got online had said all our stops of the day were open 9-5, however when we showed up at this house, the sign outside said 9-3... it was about 3:15. The garage door was still open, and there were people milling about, so we decided to check it out anyway. We got to the garage, and a man told us they were about to close up, but if we saw anything in the garage we wanted, we could just take it for free. We had less than a minute to scan through what was displayed, and as we were told to leave we each grabbed something.

1. Ed's - The Sound of Music.
2. Ed's - Dr. Dolittle Soundtrack.
3. Mine - an old Polaroid. I have a small collection of old cameras - usually they aren't cheap, which is why the collection is small. I was excited to nab this one for free. (Soon enough they'll be on display, however they're all back in Pennsylvania. I was worried about them getting broken so I never packed them.)



Free stuff? A great end to the day.

Happy Thrifting!

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$2 Box

On our way to our 4th and 5th destinations on Saturday, Ed spotted a church community yard sale in a field off the highway. We made a detour and headed straight for it (obviously). As we walked closer to the crowd of people and junk, a volunteer told us that we could fill a box, any size box, for $5. Needless to say, we grabbed the biggest/sturdiest box we could find and got to pickin'. (And boy, was it hot out.)

As you can see, it was the end of the sale, and everything was strewn about. We were literally looking through piles of stuff. Lots of things were broken - it was basically all the leftovers from the day.

So what's in the box?

A thousand piece puzzle, a pack of 10 animal puzzles, two books (Bad Idea and The Templar Salvation), a wooden bowl, two plates, John Denver's Greatest Hits, three rectangle photo frames, and one oval photo frame.

And when we got in line to pay, they only charged us $2. Score!

Happy Thrifting!

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Schiff's Estate Sale Building

Address number 3 on our Saturday list didn't take us to a house. We were pleasantly surprised to arrive at Schiff's Estate Sale Building. As I took a few photos outside, a woman came up to me asking what I was taking photos for - turned out she was the owner! She explained that they hold estate sales for houses in gated communities/apartments/places that are more difficult to get into. Everything from the house that is getting sold gets brought to this store, so that people looking to buy aren't all over the family's neighborhood.

 The other half of the store is antiques. A great combo.

There's also garden/patio area with lots of outdoor antiques and plenty of succulents. I loved the way some of them were planted in old sinks and wheelbarrows.

We'll definitely be coming back here in the future.
If you'd like more information, visit their website!

Happy Thrifting!

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Estate Sale One 5/4/13

Usually, if we don't have any morning/afternoon weekend plans, I check out estatesales.net to see if there will be any estate sales near us. If there are any in our town/the neighboring town/the Sacramento area, I'll go ahead and plug the addresses into Google. We won't go all the way to Sacramento unless there are at least 3 to check out there - otherwise we'll just stick to our town. In any case, I find out a good plan (put them into the correct order so we aren't backtracking), jot them down on a post-it, and we're set!

This Saturday, we had 5 on our list. The first one had already started Thursday, so there really wasn't much left other than large furniture. We ended up finding a few things at the second one:

 

1. My purchase - a clog. It was hanging up on the wall by a nail sticking out of the heel, which is exactly what I plan on doing with it.

2. Ed's purchase - this neat painting with an intricate frame.

3. Ed's purchase - a framed copy of the Declaration of Independence. Classy.

I will continue with the rest of our weekend finds in another post (or posts).

Happy Thrifting!

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Clocks

I'm still on the hunt for a nice big clock for our place. I'm not sure exactly what I want, but I'll know when I see it (and it's the right price). Here are a few of the smaller clocks we have around.

1. This cute little wind-up alarm clock comes from a community yard sale at a church in Nazareth, PA. The seller claimed it was from Germany, but that could have been just to convince me to buy it (I wanted it anyway).
2. Ed got me this owl clock a couple years ago. I had originally reblogged a photo of it on Tumblr, so he secretly looked for it and gave it to me as a gift. He bought it second-hand from a lady online.
3. We got this clock from Roseville Hospice Thrift Store. It was half off everything that day, so it was one of the many things we ended up getting.

Happy Thrifting!

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