I believe the term is “obsessive -compulsive” . 
Shhh. Here comes Aunt Esther!
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If any of you live near Amish, that’s my thrift HQ. Amish WalMart has so much stuff, you could grub around for days. Want canning supplies? Got a new maple interior door for $38. Wood maul 4.5, $18. Gloves, knives, the guy has everything.
So, Amish WalMart burned down last winter. Two weeks later, rebuilt, up and running.
PS: Bring a flashlight.
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Mu’umu’u swap at The Taro Patch House in Hanalei on July 10th. 
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Thanks for posting those inks. Those pictures are lovely. Love all the colors and I’m not really a colorful person.
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Today’s find. What are the odds? Missing the blade attachment, but tape indicates it had been there when put on the floor. Spent half an hour looking high and low for it amongst the shelves with no success.
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Is it possible they remove the blade so an unsophisticated shopper doesn’t find an outlet, plug it in (curious whether it powers up), and snip off a fingertip? Maybe the manager has it in her pocket.
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I asked three different employees including the manager on duty and they looked at me funny and said to look for it on the floor. On eBay the blade sells for $30 
Today (two days since I picked up the bladeless one) I went to a different store half hour away and found a third unit. This one does have the blade. Why people are retiring their Bamix stick blenders around here I cannot explain.
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Glad to hear you found a useful one.
Can I ask where, generally, is “around here”? My daughters thrift a lot and I have them watching for stuff like this but they never report seeing any, around here.
Sometimes I think some of the more in-the-know thrift houses might pluck out gems like you found and sell them in a different channel rather than putting them out on the floor, to make more money for their charity.
I found 3 in the Sacramento area since June 15th. Hard to understand but lucky for my siblings.
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DAYUM - this just screams “Alarash should buy a powerball ticket!”.
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I got this board at a local thrift for $3. It’s 17x14x0.75 inches.
Normally I’m leery of thinner boards like this but it seems it got a lot of use and from the weight and friction feel of it was well oiled, so I figure its potential to warp may have been in the past.
The opposite side (which by appearance was much more in use by the prior owner) has a juice channel in it. Unless I’m carving cooked meat with lots of juice, I won’t use the channeled side - gets in the way of scraping the chopped veggies off into the pan.
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I picked up this potato ricer at Goodwill for $2.50. I didn’t want to buy a new one as I didn’t know if I would like it or not, but this thing is GREAT!! I have a few potato recipes where you have to “mash” the potatoes and this ricer makes quick & easy work of that step. The little grating basket comes out and I can throw the whole thing in the dishwasher for cleaning.
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Great buy. We had the same for over 15 years and surely paid more for it. It saw small use most of the year (maybe 1/5 or 6 weeks) but holiday season it riced 20+ pounds every year with the ladies making lefsa. My son (ricer strongarm extraordinnaire) broke the lever arm at the rivet attachments by pushing too hard/fast, so I’d be happy to find a new one thrifting before November.
If not, it’ll have to be Amazon or Target.
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Sweet deal! Handsome cutter.
SOO what I’m looking for. I’m sick of my ricer.
If we can include classic Amish stores, get thee toWeaver’s Market in Fivepointsville, Pa. They carry literally everything, food, housewares, clothes, horse liniment etc. Quality is high, prices low. Lots of unusual cooking and gardening implements. Sturdy clothes.
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Without this ricer, I am nothing. Makes turning out mashed potatoes an easy decision.
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Never knew what smashed potatoes were until the ricer.
Cashton Amish mall got it all.
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Weirdly, we’ve never used ours for regular mashed potatoes. Only for the occasional recipe calling specifically for ricing (that’s the rare normal usage every 5-6 weeks I mentioned above) and then the heavy use for making holiday breads.
Not sure why we’ve not used it for making mashed. I guess the regular beaters have always been good enough.
But then I shove soooooo much fat into it that mud pies would taste good, too (cream cheese, butter, heavy cream, sour cream… heart attack on a plate!).
