Thrifty Friday
August 4, 2006
We found out yesterday that the woman who outbidded us on the house, won it. No one outbidded her.
stomp. stomp. stomp.
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Hey, Beki flashed her living room too! Anyone else want to flash us? It is neat to see inside of normal people's houses and not just the pretty little corners either, but the whole room. I think it tells you a lot about the person. I'll be looking. Living rooms this coming week, dining rooms the following week? What do ya think?
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On to this week's thrifty finds:
I like the blue rim and I really like the little sugar dish all .25!
Fabric. Look at the itty bitty polkadots on the far left.
Odd shaped dishes with groovy designs .49
How fun are these blocks? They have the pictures on one side and then the Asian word on the other… Japanese? Chinese? Korean? I know not. Anyone? I would like to know. $2.00
And my favorite is this awesome set of English flashcards. I really like flashcards and these just please me so much.
They're yellowed with age, all 1000 of them (for .99). The sample sentences for some of them are really funny. As we were flipping through them, I realized there are a lot of words I've never even heard off. Perhaps I could post one of them a day, or week, here. Let's expand our vocabularies shall we? I thought these would be neat in some kind of wooden box or rectangular dish on a coffee table (because I have one of those again!). Good conversation piece. I'll have to wait until Keely doesn't want to pull them out, bend them, and throw them behind bookcases though. stinker.
Good cheap thrifting. I love it. Have a great weekend all.
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23 Comments Leave a Comment
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beki | August 4, 2006 at 9:30 am
I’ll flash my dining room next week. Seeing rooms through pictures look so different than real life, don’t you think? I like using pictures to get a different perspective.
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autum | August 4, 2006 at 9:33 am
Oh I’m so jealous!! Absolutely green with envy. I bought that cream and sugar set on ebay a couple of weeks ago and paid lots more than .25
I actually got it for a pretty good price but when you include shipping…. oh, I don’t want to talk about it anymore.
You got some great stuff.
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cathy | August 4, 2006 at 9:39 am
Great thrifting! I love seeing other people’s living quarters but I am not flashing mine… I would have to put the perpetual stack of laundry away first and I’m too tired. Also most of my bedroom furniture is still in there because I haven’t finished the floors yet. Maybe one day I will get organized and participate
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Kristy | August 4, 2006 at 10:13 am
1.Just think you could have kept out-bidding each for ages and still not won.
2.Sounds like a great idea I love being nosey!
3.Great thrifty finds and stop bragging about the coffee table!I want one!!!
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madmommy | August 4, 2006 at 10:20 am
Definitely Japanese, the type of writing called hiragana I think (I only know this because I had a Japanese pen pal all through high school). Love your finds! Nothing like that to be found here in Kansas, guess people here never buy the good stuff to begin with. sigh.
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capello | August 4, 2006 at 10:33 am
I don’t think you could handle *true* pictures of my home. Just don’t ask to see Aaron’s cave….
And, geesh, Angela… I’m really envious of your thirft findes (read: hate you right now).
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laeroport | August 4, 2006 at 11:01 am
I have to clean my living room (i.e. remove all toys) for a baby shower tomorrow, so I’ll be happy to show a photo on Monday.
My grandma had those blue/green leaf dishes – I hated them as a child but love them now. I wish I had some and they all hadn’t gone to auction when they died. Drat!
And yes, please, give us a flash card a week!
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Ali | August 4, 2006 at 11:18 am
I’m going to photograph my living room right now, but can’t guarantee I’ll flash it. I could do with some advice though, so maybe…
And your blocks are Japanese – hiragana. Eg. the one with the picture of an orange – the symbol in the circle says mi and the two under it are ka and n – orange is mikan in Japanese.
And that’s about as flash as my Japanese gets. I do know the names of many fruits and veg thanks to shopping in markets!
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Laurie | August 4, 2006 at 11:29 am
You’re right that showing the whole room shows a lot about a person. It shows that I’m a slob!!!
I have flash cards on my blog today, too!
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estea | August 4, 2006 at 1:32 pm
good grief! i bow to your utter thrift world dominance. honey, you SCORED.
the house thing sucks rocks, so i’m glad you got some good little things to make yourself feel better.
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babybug | August 4, 2006 at 1:46 pm
yup, japanese. really cute! and, i love that sugar bowl and tea cup set with the blue rim. twenty-five cents!? i want to go thrifting with you!
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molly | August 4, 2006 at 2:57 pm
wow, its all fantastic! I just bought a bowl and some salt and pepper shakers with a very similar color scheme and feel as your first picture of dishes.
And those word cards?! I love those, too. Fantastic and fun. But really, its all great. Don’t you just love thrifting??!!
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lera | August 4, 2006 at 3:11 pm
you always have great thrift finds … and cheap, too! love all the dishes.
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Alicia A. | August 4, 2006 at 5:58 pm
As always, good stuff!
We bow to you, our thrifting queen.
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sally | August 4, 2006 at 6:54 pm
Great thrift finds. Love the Japanese blocks…so cute!
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monica | August 5, 2006 at 2:54 pm
thrifting out there is soooo good! Here it’s totally expensive in comparison. Really, WallMart is cheaper than our ‘charity shop’. Charity my bottom.
Anyway, I love all your finds. Sorry about the house. Bummer.
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mijk | August 6, 2006 at 2:27 pm
Livingroom and diningroom apart? HA, I live in Holland. \Wre’ve got 1,023 people on a square mile. I don’t have a diningroom nor a kitchen it’s all in my livingroom.. But I probably flash them tomorow..
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tanja | August 6, 2006 at 7:05 pm
Yes lets expand our vocabulary. I would love to see some of those flash cards close up since I have never seen any before. I guess it is not really used in Denmark. Well not when I went to school anyway…
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brit | August 7, 2006 at 1:44 am
um. where are these awesome thrift stores you keep hitting.. not fair
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momo | August 7, 2006 at 7:04 am
I like the pitcher especially.
And wooden educational toy is Japanese and I was thinking of getting one for our son!! Decided to get him a toy piano instead though.
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Carmen | August 7, 2006 at 9:01 pm
Yes! It’s Japanese and it’s hiragana. The little words next to the images are the name of those objects, of course. Love all your findings!
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Jodi | August 7, 2006 at 10:15 pm
I love the blue and green dishes! They’re very unusual.
I’m a little scared to flash a whole room, but the dining room sounds like a fairly non-embarrassing place to start.
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amy h | August 9, 2006 at 12:53 am
I just saw a whole set of those blue and green dishes while antiquing this weekend. I *almost* bought them. $75 for a giant set of them. I’m still kind of regretting not buying them, but I don’t *need* them. So cute.
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