After Joyce over at the Just Joycee blog recently mentioned on her blog about going by her local thrift store, I decided I was going to go and check my own store out. It had been years since I'd been there, but I was hoping that it would be a better experience than recently when another blogger inspired me to go and visit my local library for the first time in years.You see, I have a book addiction. It's bad. It's not any one book, but cookbooks - I have hundreds of them - novels and gardening and household and travel and inspirational and career, and legal, and self-help, and do it yourself, and Bible study, and Christian living and, well, you name it, I have thousands of 'em, yes thousands.
But it doesn't stop there. I have a Kindle,
a low tech device made for reading ebooks that you can stick in your purse and literally carry hundreds of book right with you. Love it!And... I've been a long time member of Audible for years on top of that, so I can upload audio books to one of several mp3 players I also own and listen to books when I'm working out in the yard, or walking on the treadmill - which I manage to do occasionally, but not nearly enough these days.
Yep. I am in serious need of a 12-step program.
Anyway, I was out on errands near the library, and was so excited about what I might find after not having been there in so long. I got out of the car all full of anticipation and giddiness and walked to the curb, only to see a big sign posted out front "CLOSED FOR RENOVATIONS." Well, I laughed out loud so loud that I startled someone who was coming out of the police department next door! The first time in, I don't know... maybe 8-10 years, I decide to go to the library, and it just so happened to be closed that particular week. Go figure, huh? That was a couple months ago, and I haven't managed to make my way back there again...
So, anyway... one afternoon when The Hubs and I went out for lunch we stopped by our local America's Thrift Store. Mostly I wanted to look for any odds and end dish treasures that I could use for the blog. I was so thrilled to find these!
Aren't they the cutest? I thought that they were perfect for summertime and yes, you've already seen them make an appearance a time or three! There wasn't a speck of dust on them, and no chips or damage, so I'm sure they were newly acquired and I must've gone at just the right time, because the day that I went they were 70% off of the marked price! They also had a set of pastel dinnerware that I thought would be great plates for summer photos, but I decided to wait them out for another mark down day, and the next time I went, they were gone.It came with 3 soup bowls - so I guess the watermelon bowl was missing. Each had a different motif on the inside - blueberries {above} and corn ...
and another with tomatoes.
Then there are 4 different salad plates. I just fell in love with these!
And 4 dinner plates with a red and white checkerboard pattern border.
Oh, the cups! I almost forgot the cups!
Aren't they just so southern and just pinch your cheeks cutie pie sweet??!!
Now they aren't fancy dishes - just good old Home Trends in a pattern called Farm Fresh - but out of curiosity, I checked online at Replacements, Ltd., and the dinner plates sell there for $13.99, while the salad plates and the cereal/soup bowls go for $9.99. I got them for ... tadaaaa..... only $3 - for the whole set!
Is that just not mad??! At $3.00 for the set, I think I found a great thrifty deal! Isn't that exciting!! Yippee!
