Well, I would’ve been happy to give it to you, but you sound like you want it a little too much. What would you have used it for again? [sup]“The girl just ain’t right!”[/sup]
I was curious about how much they were going for on Ebay, so I looked it up. The Same Chair is going for $280! And mine was in better condition!
[sup]Think it might still be there?[/sup]
I got both of hte formal dresses I’ve ever worn at thrift stores. One was a beautiful black velvet sheath with gold accents, tags still on, for $6. The other was a blue princess type dress in satin with about 5 layers of (some meshy material) under the skirt, and that one was $10. Thrift stores are great. 
I’m trying to find a pasta machine for my daughter to use for polymer clay. They are going on Ebay for $25, which seems a little high for art supplies…
if anyone finds one, or has one, cheaper, I’ll be happy to take it off your hands!
After searching for a month to find some kind of cabinet thingy to put in the entryway and finding that the only things in my price range looked crappy (although I found just the perfect thing at a furniture store for $1,200), I wandered into a consignment store and found a gorgeous old buffet cabinet for $289. I talked them down to $229, and it’s already been worth the money to me in just the satisfaction I get looking at it.
While I was there, I also found two matching end tables with cabinets in them for $30 apiece. It was too good a deal not to take, but I didn’t love them enough to post pictures of them.
I love thrift stores and garage sales and have beern doing most of my shopping this way for decades.
I picked up a set of four depression glass fruit dishes at a garage sale once for $1.00 and an antique dealer I knew looked them up in his book and told me the set was worth $100.00
I own several really nice full length overcoats, all of which were purchased second hand for no more than $10.00
Right now I’m wearing a new sweater from Eddie Bauer except I picked it up at a church sale for .25 so I figure I saved myself at least $40.00.
And then there’s the books. We have mountains of them, most of which were purchased second hand.
My electrician friend went to a garage sale once and picked up a piece of electrical equipment. It was a circuit tester of some kind (I can’t remember what it was called) that would generate a tremendous charge via a hand crank. He paid $10.00 for a $1000.00 piece of equipment. The guy sellling it had no idea what it was.
voguevixen, go back and get the Longaberger basket and sell it on ebay. You’ll get a mint. Or send it to me and I’ll only take a 10% brokering fee!!!
Last year at a garage sale we nabbed a cool leather coat. My husband already had two bomber-style jackets but what the hell, it was $5!! It’s a great jacket.
The iron is awesome. Yay for reusing things. It’s so earth-friendly.
Vectrex! Whoop, whoop!
The short-lived vector based home videogame system (think vintage “Asteroids”) with the “Star Castle”, “Berserk”, and “Asteroids” games. All I have to do is turn it on, plunk in a Duran-Duran CD, and I’m ten years old all over again. Seven dollars.
Autographed Kate Bush “Hounds of Love” Album! 25¢.
the most I paid was $200 for a Lionel train set. Sold it on ebay for $550.00
I hit a garage sale a few weeks ago and cleaned out their children’s book section. For a whopping seventy five cents per book, I got nearly the entire set of Disney books that were/looked brand new. I gave them to a friend as an early baby shower gift ( along with about fifteen other garage sale - but-new books) total worth of the gift, probably $100. Total money put out: possibly $10.
thrift stores RULE!
to much thrift store stuff to list…
I love thrift stores, flea markets, etc. The feeling of being able to indulge without spending lots of money…
Most recent cool find…A 50 cent kids record from the '50s, in which various barnyard animal bleats, moos, barks, etc are edited together, so it sounds like the animals are “singing” kids songs.
I enjoy finding neat stuff like that.
