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I don’t know who knows, but I LOVE thrift stores. I can spend hours in a good one and not feel like I wasted any time. Theres so much awesomeness I feel like a pirate. Arrr! check out all the treasures, matey. There’s also a lot of junk to laugh at. Like, I understand how you could easily part with some of that junk. What I want to know is what the fuck ever made someone buy some of it?

Anyway, I thought it’d be cool to post photos of some of the neat stuff I find. Yesterday was the first time I went to one in a while. The one I like is America’s Thrift Store, mostly because it’s so huge you HAVE to find something. They build them inside old Wal-Mart buildings. They’re a little more expensive than Goodwill and the like, but still very cheap.

So anyway, yesterday I got a few things, but these were the best:

A little Japanese China teacup. It matches my rainbow coffee cup, also thrifted. The lines are so delicate. I drank coffee from it this morning. I felt like a princess! It was love at first sight. I believe it cost .59

An iron nutcracker. I assume he was a bookend because he’s flat and hollow on the back. This guy is fucking heavy. You could easily kill a man with him. This is my version of buying Christmas decorations early, and also my alternative to buying a gun. This is your first and only warning. This little piece of security cost me $2.49

I also got the Word for Windows Design Companion for version 2 for 1992. Theres a lot of design inspiration in it. Mostly text design. It’s really nice for such an old book. It put me back a whole $1.98

And for anyone else who loves thrifting, a couple of links to thrift-related blogs.

MTSS

Thrift Shop Project

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