Call me Ishmael. You know when you are out thrifting whether it is at an estate sale, a thrift store, flea market or garage sale and you have the deep hope that you are going to find the sale of all sales? You know the kind I mean. The kind you read about in magazines like FleaMarket Style (where they never print the prices...I always suspect they pay a lot more than I would ever pay.) You know the kind where someone is cleaning out their attic and just wants to get rid of stuff. Well, we hit one during the city wide garage sales.
After trolling through countless sales with baby clothes, afghans and a thousand candlesticks and bad eighties decor, we drove by this driveway that had one table and lines of boxes up and down the cement. It didn't look promising, but my daughter-in-law said we should stop. At first we saw a few things and then my daughter-in-law started digging through the boxes and oh my...things got real fun.
The homeowner didn't have very many prices on things and when I inquired about a lamp, he said the words every hardcore thrifter longs to hear. "Just make a pile and we will work something out. I made a pile and he charged me a whopping $5. That's right. Five whole dollars for this pile of fun.
As per my last post, my son took the pictures...a little more artistically than I would have.
I would have paid $10 for the lamp. My husband isn't too sure about it, but my daughter-in-law and Thrift Chick both said, "I can see you spraying that some fun color....they got that right.
These are Pyrex tear drop measuring batter bowls. I usually don't buy clear pyrex. However, my daughter-in-law unearthed them in a box and we both thought they would be quite useful. Turns out they are also quite vintage and single pieces of them go for $15-$20 on Ebay. I saw a few full sets for the $40-$50 range. I just like how much use I am going to get out of them.
The enamel pot was filthy. It is amazing what a magic eraser can do. I have a growing collection of enamelware. However, I have never paid more than $1 to $2 per item. I actually saw some enamelware at some other sales for $15 fa piece. Some day I will do a post about how I started getting enamelware when I didn't actually like it!
Okay the Pyrex gravy boat and saucer is not all that vintage because it has microwave instructions on the bottom. I just liked the look of it. I actually collect the red translucent vintage cookie cutters and put them on my white Christmas tree (see it
here) My mom used cookie cutters like these so I threw them in my pile. I am sure I will find a use for them. The flocked vintage Santa was a piece I threw in at the last minute. I couldn't think of how I would use him, but he reminded me of my grandmother's decorations. Thrift Chick said "He's cool in a real creepy sort of way."
There was also this vintage small casserole dish in the browns and harvest gold of eras gone by. I forgot to have my son take a picture of it, but you can kind of spy it in the top picture.
If you divide up the $5 total by pieces, each item cost me less than $1. Now that is a "Great White Sale" for ya!
Patty
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