Thriftshare Monday....

ONE last call:

before I get to Thriftshare

My winners of the giveaway

have yet to send me their info.

SuzieQ and Lisanne.

contact me by e-mail on my profile page

Thanks!

I want to get your goodies out so you can start

enjoying them!

Last 3 weeks

the amount of yardsales and estate sales has been

quite overwhelming.

Now that the weather is pretty much a steady warmth,

I guess everyone is inspired to clean out!

I have to admit I haven't been in my usual try and go to every sale mood.

After the great finds I had last week
and while trying to control my own hoard...

I decided that if I go to a sale and I am pretty happy with what I bought,

then that is where I'll stop for the weekend.

Luckily, at the first sale I went in on Saturday

I found some fun things...

Most of the rest I drove by just looked boring..

This estate sale was packed.
 There were so many people it felt like

they thought stuff was being given away!
I have learned to look where no one else is looking when it feels like that...

Then  I found these...

A closet in the kitchen full of old cookbooks, bingo cards, magazines and misc. books.

This Vintage Jello book is awesome.

I already have a couple of Jello books and some of the recipes are Heee-larious!
Stuff with vegetables in it and even fish!
Uckkkk...

I need to feature some of the recipes later...

They gave me this one for free!

No argument there...

In the same closet I picked up this enormous volume

of

Cars and Trucks and things that GO!

by Richard Scarry

for my little guy.

 $14.99 book in perfect condition for

$2

The illustrations are so much fun.

I remember pouring over and inspecting the details in these types

of illustrated books when I was a kid.

I think it helped me learn a lot of my self taught drawing skills...

Adorable bunnies all packed into the wagon

and

neat imagining the Sody-Pop truck...

Then I rummaged through a bunch of boxes under a table of DVD's

full of Christmas ornaments.

Lots of lame stuff and then in the bottom I found these

sweet wooden ornaments.

3 tiny angels on their shooting stars...

.75 cents for all three

Teeny Santa whose tree and present were still in perfect shape.

 I seem notice the bottle brushes are usually crushed or things are missing..

He was so cute I couldn't resist

.25 cents.

I'll let Liam have these for his own tree

I walked out to the garage and looked around for a bit.

Then peeping out from a box covered in old dusty vinyl and yuck-o various bits of debris...

I saw these...

Jackpot!

Vintage dime-store Christmas stockings.

They usually came with candy and novelty items in them.

I found 2 last year at a show and paid more than what I paid for this whole lot

$2!

Probably 100 in the box.

I had to refrain

from buying all of them

I know I couldn't use them all

and I'm not ready to sell yet.

I just grabbed a big handful...

at least 25-30

and they are the really large ones.

I can't wait to use them for gifts this year

and some projects I have dreamed up....

I was pretty content and decided to stop at this for the day

I only spent $5!

It was a good thrift day if you ask me!

What did you find this weekend?

I can't wait to see all the goodies at

Apron Thrift Girl

Head over and wish her a Happy 5 year Blogoversary

for the site!

Happy Monday!