Funky Cozy

[Sprocket]

     Great haul today!  I just returned from the Goodwill with a brand spanking new Abercrombie & Fitch cardigan and 3 brand spanking new button up shirts...an OP, a Hurley & a Gap.  All for 15 bones.

-Sprock

[superiorgirl]

Good job!! I came out empty handed. Any time I do that I feel like I've been cheated.      You, on the other hand, made a great haul! Way to go!!!

[Good Buddy]

We too just came back from thrifting.
We got 3 t-shirts and cookie got a couple shirts for her work. (She's a court reporter and has to look professional like and all that.)
We also go a Star Trek VHS in widescreen, First Contact.

[alexandra]

Good day here too!  $6.53 (including 9% sales tax) bought me two button down oxfords -- a pink striped and a blue striped, both Polo.  For The Big Guy: one Brook's Brothers polo (red) and an Abercrombie rugby shirt.  To hold Christmas tchotckies: two Atlas Ball jars.

Gotta start thinking about making Christmas presents, and those jars are great to hold soaps, candles, cookies, etc.  They were .49 cents each.

Thriftily,
Alexandra
www.livingwithoutmoney.blogspot.com

[Thrift Shop Romantic]

Seems like it was a great thrifting day all around! Way to go, folks.

(Yup, Alexandra, good to think ahead like that with the jars... I have a few thrifted Christmas presents I've been putting together myself over the last few months... makes it so SO much easier when it gets close to holiday panic time!)

[SecondhandSophisticate]

Yowza, Sprock, you really, really cleaned up. Congrats!  It's great to be a well-dressed, "natty" man o' the world for mere pennies on the dollar. (Like your pic, too)

Good Buddy/Cookie, Congrats on the tees and the work clothes and the Star Trek movie. Bounty abounds!

Alexandra,  love those classy button-downs and such a deal, too!

Thrifting:  Abundance for all!

Ciao, my friends,
SeSo

[Big Daddy Audio]

You guys all did great!  Yesterday was my day - here's what I got (roughly $30.00):

2 new (tags and stuff still on them) zippered binders by Case
7 Archie Double digests (Pals-n-Gals and Betty & Veronica)
James Bond - Tomorrow Never Dies - VHS
3 original (TSR Games) hardcover Advanced Dungeons & Dragons reference books (Monster Manual, Dungeon Masters Guide, Players Handbook)
Hard Cover (ex-libris) copy of Ellen Tebbits by Beverly Cleary with the Louis Darling cover and illustrations

An odd lot, but all stuff that I collect or will re-sell.  The D&D stuff is going to be eBay'd, unless anyone here is looking for it.  I use the zippered binders to hold .pdf operators manuals for the audio gear I buy (I can sometimes download and print owners manuals from manufacturers sites, etc.).

That is all. 

[thriftymama]

i wish i had more time for thrift clothes shopping. 

[Thrift Shop Romantic]

Ah, I think fondly  of my old Archie digests. As a kid they were a sure sign of going on vacation-- I would get the latest Archie digest right before leaving for Florida.

Good times!

BDA, hope the reselling will go well. It's a nice bunch of collectible thngs there.

[Other People s Junk]

The past couple of days has been good for thrifting, I guess!  Great finds, everyone! 

On Tuesday I found an old original (1977) Star Wars puzzle, 99 cents.  Also a book (3-in-1 old mysteries), but I was most excited about the puzzle.  Now to put it together to see if it's all there! 

[Thrift Shop Romantic]

Oh, that IS a good find! I hope all the pieces are there-- that would be amazing!

[Sprocket]

Thanks for all the great comments.  The 'finds' yesterday make up for a few weeks of seeing nothing worthwhile at the thrift shops! 

-Sprock

[Cookie]

I remember reading those Archie digests, too.  I would get a copy at the Greyhound bus station when I was going to visit my dad for the summer, a two and a half hour trip from San Francisco to Modesto.  We were also allowed one treat from the bus station vending machines.  Without fail, before the bus even pulled out of the station I would have already scarfed down my treat and read the whole digest.   I usually spent the rest of the trip studying the artwork like the tic-tac-toe grid in Archie's hair and wishing my name was Veronica.

My favorite find from yesterday is a white dog food T-shirt with red ringers that says Meaty Bone.

[Big Daddy Audio]

Archie comic books were part of our vacation, too.  But we weren't buying digests, we were buying the regular size books - Pep, Everything's Archie, Archie, Laugh, etc.  I especially like the Christmas ones - I have a complete collection of the Holiday Fun Digests and have been sending them to my nieces and nephews for the past three years - I hope they save them.  I also have quite a few regular size Christmas comic books - Archie's Christmas Stocking, Archie's Christmas Love-In - stuff like that. 

If anyone comes across any of those, please let me know.  Thanks.

I like the Double Digests with snowy covers (the stories usually follow the same cold-weather escapades with Archie and the Gang - they are great for cooling you down during July, August, and September in Phoenix.

That is all.

[Thrift Shop Romantic]

I'll keep an eye out. I might actually HAVE some somewhere in my attic. I don't recall if I kept any when I cleaned out my dad's place or not.