thriftymama's thrifty finds

[thriftymama]

Ok, I saw some other people posting all their goodies under one thread, which I think is a great idea. I'm probably not as "hardcore" thrifty as most of you guys, but I try my best! One thing I love is to take pictures to share my finds. So I guess this is my starting point. Enjoy!

A blue teapot to add to my collection, $3 at a garage sale:


Some vintage View Masters, with slide sets ranging from 1958-1978, $1.00 at a garage sale:


Shirt Tales, found in a Free Box!:


A cute ceramic panda bear, 50 cents at a flea market:


And a jar of marbles, $1.00 at a garage sale. I added them to a previously thrifted bowl, and made a really cool centerpiece:

[valleythriftshopper]

I love all your finds especially those marbles!  They look great with that gorgeous quilt you have! 

Great Shirt Tales find too.  I always pick up 70's/80's cartoon character stuff if I see it cheap (free is the best).  I recently got Strawberry Shortcake & Care Bear talking telephones from the early 80's at the Sal Army.  My best find was the vintage tickled pink Rainbow Brite Doll I found a few years back.

[Firekinghunt]

Love the finds! I have been doing better at garage sales then my local thrifts. I am a child of the 80s so I do love some good Strawberry Shortcake and Care Bears!

[thriftymama]

Today I bought this vase at Goodwill for $3.99. I thought it was priced too high, which is why I didn't buy it the first time I saw it. But I kept thinking about it, and it was still there today, so I grabbed it anyway. I mean, how often do you come across a pink dancing hippo vase? It was too cute. Anyone ever see anything like it?

[Big Daddy Audio]

Brilliant Coup on the ViewMasters.  Looks like you got some choice reels there as well.

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[aGentlerTime]

Your finds are great. I most love the blue teapot.  I have a few pieces in that blue and LUV them. 

Your pink hippo vase is a find. I have never ever seen anything like it.

Enjoy!

[valleythriftshopper]

That vase is cute, I saw a hippo cookie jar the other day at the SA it had a sweater with an H on it.  I wasn't sure if it stood for hippo or if it was supposed to be Henrietta Hippo.  I didn't see it in my cookie jar book, it was gone the next day anyway.  It wasn't marked but many cookie jars aren't which is a little frustrating for ID.  

I see hippo stuff fairly regularly, not all cute like the vase, but I guess you could build quite a hippo collection over time.  Here's a couple that has a huge hippo collection- I do like their cookie jars!

http://collectibles.about.com/od/collectorprofiles/ig/Sheila-Voeller/SVhipporoom.htm

[thriftymama]

wow, what a collection! i wonder if they have my vase...

[thriftymama]

Star Trek: The Next Generation kites! Found at Goodwill, one for $.99 and one for $1.99. All I can say is, YESSSSSSSS!!!!!

[valleythriftshopper]

Will you be flying these kites or are they going into a collection?

[thriftymama]

well, i don't think they're really worth much, so they will be worth more to me to take them out back and have fun with them! i think this weekend i will show my daughter how to fly a kite! not to mention, make the neighbors totally jealous when they see my sweet Picard kite! 

[Good Buddy]

Long live Locutus!

[thriftymama]

Found this at a Unique Thrift Store in the Chicago area for 79 cents.
Not sure what I'll do with it, but it sure is pretty.

[valleythriftshopper]

That is pretty, I love cobalt glass.  It looks great in a window where the light can shine through.  I have some old pointil glass that was my great aunt & uncles, but I have no where to put it (afraid the cat will knock them over in a window- even the high one!)

Speaking of pretty glass, I found this vintage glass bead necklace at the Sal Army yesterday for 3 bucks.  I haven't seen a nice glass bead necklace for a long time.  Maybe I know why now that the manager told me that there are a group of people that scavenge the store several times a day.  One woman Barbara who is actually a nice lady, is a big jewelry buyer, the manager said she didn't come in yesterday.  I wonder if there is actually decent jewelry on a regular basis & I just miss it?

[Krisathome]

thriftymama, that necklace is gorgeous!!  I have a "thing" for vintage jewelry.  Especially blues and greens. Have you worn it yet?