Thrift Share Monday - May 24

What a whirl wind thrifting weekend. It included yard sales, garage sales, a Waldorf school rummage sale, a huge neighborhood sale in Petaluma and two hours at an estate sale in Santa Rosa. Here are some of my finds.

 

Art Deco style scale which amazingly weighs up to 24 lbs. $3.00. She's going in the kitchen.

 

My favorite rummage sales are at Waldorf Schools. They are usually filled to the brim with amazing children's books, felted items (also picked up a felted purse), yarn, knitting needles, mushrooms, fabulous clothing and lots of wooden and natural toys. This one had at least 3 wooden dollhouses.  I picked up a Wool Barrett .50 cents, mushroom .10 cents and Swedish horse $1.00.

 

In preparation for our next party I picked up this very modern style Romanian punch bowl that included a glass ladle. I found this at the Sebastopol Flea Market. It was a strange stall at the side that basically had 25 packed boxes strewn across an area. You had to dig to find items as most things were wrapped in newspaper. People were diving in in a haphazard fashion. I'm most surprised that this wasn't broken in all the chaos. I bought quite a few things for one price but I imagine that this may have cost me around $5.

These all came from the neighborhood sale in Petaluma. The seller had so many beautiful vintage children's books. I was the first to look through them too which was a bonus.

 

This also came from the crazy mess at the Flea Market. I think it is a grater but I'm going to use it as a spoon rest. .50 cents.

It was a very busy weekend and now I have four days to turn around all my purchased inventory before it starts again. Three days of thrifting and four days of listing work.

I also wanted to mention the winner for the Hanes Hope t-shirt Giveaway.

Here are your random numbers: 18

Timestamp: 2010-05-24 13:10:38 UTC

Congratulations Uta from Carpe Diem Acreage . I'll email you for your details. Thanks everyone for entering and don't forget to check out Hanes Pink Collection.

Did you thrift this weekend? If you posted about it, please add your link below. Also don't forget to check out the party at Southern Hospitality where you can also add your link.

Comments

[Van]

You found a lot of beautiful things! I didn't have the same luck with prices on my thrift adventure but came home with fun finds. I love the owl grater- that's so unique!

[Laura]

I love your finds - especially the children's books! What treasure!

I would never find any Waldorf school items in my area, but I do love looking through a Waldorf catalog and ordering when I can afford it.

[The Yard Sale Girl]

Lol. I got an owl like this this weekend too :-) It's slightly different, I think it is supposed to hang on the wall....but it looks almost exactly like this :-)

[sraikh]

Ohh I love the punch bowl. I am looking for a glass ladle.. Good finds.

[Stella]

Wow! Too many sales going on. I'm really diggin the classic weighing scale! Does that still functions well? Great stuff!

[Leslee]

I can't believe I missed a Waldorf rummage sale! Love, love, love the punch bowl.

[Kim McLaughlin]

Great party! Thanks for inviting me to join. You found some great stuff girl!
xoxo,
Kim

[Jane]

LOVE the punch bowl!!

xoxo
Janie

[Angela]

I have been reading your blog (love it!)for several months and have finally started a blog so now I can participate in Thrift Share Monday too!

[Tracy (The Wardrobe Wanderer)]

Ahhhh, I love the owl grater!! So cute :)

[Diane]

Great finds! I think one of the toughest aspects of being thrifty and reselling can be actually *parting* with our fortunate finds. Sometimes I just can't quite let go!

[Selena Cate]

This happened to me just this very week. I keep coming across a book that sells for $30 and yet every time I have it in my hands I want to read it and keep it. I also found this fabulous infrared heating pad. I so wanted to keep it but some of the new ones sell for $220. At this time I just cant talk myself into keeping something so valuable. But the kiln is another thing. I still havent made myself sell it. I may keep it. I adore it. Think I can hide it from Dave?
xoxo
Selena

[erin]

Selena,
How is it that I've missed this wonderful site?
I am following and linking.
Thanks for the lovely comment.
Erin

[erin]

Sorry, my info didn't come up. It's Erin from Yard Sale Snoop in Toronto.

[Rachel Wolf]

Selena,
The owl grater is for ginger. You might just want to keep it. A ginger grater is in weekly use around here. (Peel the ginger with a spoon then grate on owl belly.)

We live in a Waldorf-small town (maybe the only one in the country), so every garage sale is a Waldorf gold-mine. I've picked up $1 Waldorf dolls, dollmaking supplies, wooden toys, and my latest score was Orchard game ($4). Happy thrifting!
~Rachel

[Grace]

Wow, that glass punch bowl is AMAZING. I don't know when I'd ever use a punch bowl, but there's no way I could have left that in the box.

[Heidi]

love the scale and owl best.. amazing whats out there I LOVE it!