Trying my best to be ashamed of snaring Amazon’s $80 Granite Ware 8 Piece Enamelware Water bath canning Pot with Canning kit and Rack–new in original wrapping–for $7.00 at \Manhattan thrift store, but struggling to succeed,
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Try harder? 
Now THAT requires a Snoopy Dance!
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The kind of day I dream about. great high when you snag something great for a pinch of shhhalt.
I drink wine out of very small glasses, to try and limit my intake. I had a little set of 3 glasses made in France in the 1970s that I had bought in a thrift shop. But they weren’t very sturdy and I was too lazy to wash them by hand and eventually, 2 of the set broke in the dishwasher. So I was on the lookout to buy some small nice wine glasses. Found a lovely set of Royal Doulton crystal glasses in a little shop which sells arts, crafts and some secondhand stuff.
A set of 6 for £25 in a nice satin-lined sturdy box. The glasses feel nice and heavy and seem around a 50 ml-75 ml capacity. Not cheap but I’m happy with that price for the quality.
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Score!
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Yesterday at the Goodwill outlet, I grabbed a muffintop pan. The tops of muffins are my favorite part, and I always wondered if muffintop pans really turned out muffins that were all top, but I didn’t want to spend real money to find out. I think this pan set me back a buck or buck-and-a-half, so I’ll be testing it soon.
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I found this dress at Goodwill. It has been a while since I found anything that Sunshine might like. Any who, I purchased it and brought home for her to try on. It fit perfectly and she loved it, moreover it is a Michael Kors dress – which she really likes! I don’t know who Michael Kors is, but it made her very happy – all for $12.
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I’m in the process of sanding down the pebble-like surface on one that my daughter was given by a friend (it’s a standard current model; it seems they’re all pebbly instead of smooth - maybe cheaper to cast?).
Once I get it to the same kind of surface of my old Griswolds, it’ll season up to hockey puck performance.
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I don’t know much about the casting process, but I would imagine that the coarser the casting medium (sand?), the easier it is to manipulate, but the more pebbly the finish.
Score! Very springlike!
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Michael Kors is s famous fashion designer and his dresses are usually in the hundreds of dollars. If you bought Sunshine a Michael Kors dress for $12 I would say you got a good bargain!
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Hundreds?? WOW, no wonder Sunshine was so happy with this purchase.
And it fits her perfectly!!
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Might’ve been around $165 originally.
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Picked up one of these for $5.50 because it went to 1/2 price.
For reasons unknown to me they have seem to bring a pretty penny used. I’m going to keep this one.
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I have this one. It’s a wedding gift that wasn’t appreciated for years.
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Ashamed of thrifting…no way. Started thrifting at the local Goodwill collection center…unsorted, by the pound, in high school. School had a dress code and clothes got pricey, and punk was rising. So instead of asking for funds from parents (a time when most teens had a PT job), the last two years $5 bucks could buy clothes for the year, along with hand me downs or old clothes parents didn’t fit.
Out of fashion clothes became cool and guys would buy old, shitty $2 suits, weird colors, wrinkled from the pile…and white shoes were semi common for men. Technically it met the dress code. A few years later they banned UN ironed clothes, Mohawks and dyed hair.
As far as cookware, rarely see anything worth it in the Bay Area. A lot of that goes to places like Oakland Museum famous annual white elephant sale…or give it to a friend. I’ve never seen a cast iron pan around here or anything nice…and now I’m trying to reduce, after clearing deceased relatives possessions, and finding out about Swedish Death Cleaning, don’t leave your mess for others. But I did get my mothers orange Descoware Dutch oven.
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OMCA was really great for really quality thrift scores.
University Ave in Bezerkeley was one of my weekly visits. Buffalo Exchange was great until they became unafforadable. Across the street was the military surplus store with great deals on clothing. I think I lived in the navy issue jeans all through high school.
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Thrift store shopping seems to be something embraced enthusiastically by Gen Z. My teenage son buys clothes from thrift stores and gets a buzz from finding cool one-off items. I was slightly bemused to find out he also buys his friends birthday presents from thrift stores - but apparently this is a thing that is appreciated as it is eco-friendly and thoughtful?!?!
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One Millenial cousin loves thrifting to buy clothes and toys for her little girls. It’s adorable to see her kids dolled up in little 1980s outfits. It’s fun for the mom.
I sent her daughters my own 1970s Fisher Price toys, and they love them.
My Millenial cousin and her sisters, and their elder Gen X mom, are all into collecting vintage Corning Ware (ovenproof casserole dishes)
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