Hello everyone and welcome to our website. We're so glad you stopped by. I'm Cookie, and this website is owned and operated by me and Michael, my hubby. He is the administrator and webmaster for this site. Needless to say, we love to thrift!!!
I'll be moderating all of the forums. If you have any problems or questions, just shoot me an e-mail and I'll be there to help as soon as I can. I'm also working on our monthly online magazine that will make its debut in June, so if you have any thrift-shopping-related writing you'd like to submit, please feel free to drop me a line at
editor@thethriftshopper.com.
I just wanted to take this opportunity to introduce myself and tell you a few things about me, and hopefully you'll do the same so we can all get to know each other. So my request is this: Please tell me five interesting or random things about you, but please keep it clean, folks. Don't be shy! I'll go first.
1. I LOVE bellydancing. It's a lot of fun, and I love the music and the costumes. I've been doing it as a workout lately, too. I'm going to try hula next.
2. My new passion is cake decorating. I've taken a couple of classes and I love to make practice cakes. Hubby can't eat all of the cakes I make, so our neighbor and the local fire department end up with a lot of cake.
3. I haven't decoupaged in a while, but that's another one of my hobbies. I still love it, but each project is really time consuming.
4. My other hobby is sewing, which I haven't done much of lately. I did embroider hubby a handkerchief with his favorite fishing lures on it for our anniversary. I'm on my last lure, so hopefully it will be done soon!
5. Hubby and I bought surfboards as a wedding present to ourselves a few years back. So far I've managed to sit on the board in the water. From there, I try to look cool like I'm waiting for a wave or something. That's about all I can do so far. Hubby is way more advanced. He's been surfing since he was 17. He's going to have a heart attack unless I catch a wave soon.
Now it's your turn, fellow thrifters! I know you all like to thrift, but tell me more! Have you ever had a near-death experience or an inmate for a pen pal? Will you only eat toast if it's been burned? Go ahead and tell me any little thing. I look forward to reading all about you!!
