Monday, March 4, 2013

thrifting around

we're not hipsters. really. we're not nearly cool enough plus ben won't grow a beard even though i beg him too.
we are however a newly married couple where only one of us are bringing home the bacon (and by bacon i mean wine).
we are also old-fashioned in this weird way where  we both happen to live with our parents before getting married. so none of that two households becoming one problems.
plus i arrived here with two suitcases.

these above mentioned factors are the main reason behind our newly developed crush on thrift stores, in a non-hipster way.

a magical place where one doesn't ask "honey, can we afford that" but "honey, do you think we can paint/scrub/fix/re-use that".

other than these great treasures we found below we also found this warm fuzzy feeling of being:

-not broke
-green (because it's like recycling)
-charitable (UGM is our favorite)

tips on how to be awesome at thrifting:

-don't expect to find everything you need in one stop.
-be patient and invest time in sorting through stuff.
-have a rough idea on what you really need eg. pizza cutter, coasters, more tacky mugs.
-bring your imagination for assistance on how a bit of paint could make something unique
(heck, why not bring pintrest along while you're making an outing of it)
-go early on the weekend
-set out a budget, you'd be surprised just how fast a few 99c items can rack up.
-never buy these items new again:  clothes hangers, flower vases, photo frames, utensils, mugs.
-enjoy 

just a sample of our finds so far...

we have this thing for tacky mugs.

most of these frames were less than 99c. i filled most with my around-the-world postcard collection.

i'm an incurable non-matcher. nothing must match ever.


love this bag. 2 usd.

possibly one of my favorite items so far. a wooden shark. also a weapon. this chair we bought from a moving sale.


this shirt.

this jacket.



this 99c jar, because we grow moss now.

2 comments:

  1. I was just in a thrift store today. I love thrift stores (in a totally hipster way), but I don't do well with them because I don't have a good eye for this stuff. I end up choosing things that look like the leftovers from a crappy garage sale. Then I just have to deal with more ugly things in my house or on my body. Tsk tsk. You appear to be quite good at it, though.

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    1. yeah but you're cool, so you can get away with that. And thanks, I'm really proud of the finds so far, but i wonder if it's i who find the treasure or is it the treasure that finds me.

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