The Christmas room is here!

[valleythriftshopper]

Last weekend the food bank thrift was closed for "renovations".  When I went in on Tuesday I was so excited to see that the Christmas room was up, although it is not actually a room this year but a corner of the store. 

They also put out a big selection of Halloween stuff.  I think some store must have donated a bunch of stuff because they have all kinds of brand new Halloween costumes. 

So far just a few things but I did pick up this old fall garland today for 25 cents.  My daughter has a late Oct. b-day so I can use this as a decoration.  I have to open it carefully to preserve the nice old package.





For Christmas I found this 60's/70's Alpine village.  There are some bottle brush tree and figures that are not part of the original set too and they even threw in a new set of battery operated lights- $2.00 for all. 

[Good Buddy]

That stuff is super cool.
I think we might visit some thrifts tomorrow.

Cheers

[DisplacedDiva]

Not exactly Christmas, but the GW in Olympia had some great fall decor and I got a load of cute Halloween stuff.  Now I just need a bit more fall garland and a wreath and I am in business!

I got the best Halloween candy bowl!!  $3 and it is heavy stoneware with a creepy hand in the middle of it.  Really cute.  I got $.29 Jack O Lanterns of all different colors and hung them in my tree in the front yard.  I will take a pic of how I dressed up my bistro set out front for around $5.  I want to try and run by Value Village today since my kids have football in town today...let's hope I get there!!

[valleythriftshopper]

Those decorations and the bowl sound cool, great price on the jack-o-lanterns.

The food bank thrift by me got a big donations of brand new packaged Halloween costumes and they are only charging a buck a piece for them (love that store!).  I am trying to convince my daughter to wear the Galaxy Girl (think Jetsons) costume they had there but she seems uninterested. 

I wish I could find some vintage Halloween decorations.  They are super scarce around here.  No wonder they sell for big bucks online. 

[Frchgrl]

I'm jealous !

[valleythriftshopper]

The manager at the one decent Salvation Army in this area wanted to do a Christmas room as she has done in the past but the new "Captain" for this region said he didn't want the stores doing that.  Weird since they are a religious organization.  I think they are missing out on a good retail opportunity.  The food bank thrift is selling lots of Christmas stuff.