Hi, guys! I flew home Saturday after spending a week in north Alabama visiting Mom, family, and friends. It was a great trip - good food, good shopping, lots of fun.
As promised, here are a few photos of some of the treasures we uncovered during our numerous romps through area thrift shops. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to bring any of these bargains home on the plane.
As promised, here are a few photos of some of the treasures we uncovered during our numerous romps through area thrift shops. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to bring any of these bargains home on the plane.
$5 Chairs - what a bargain!
While it's a table and not a dresser, you get where I'm going.
Don't automatically pay retail when something grabs your fancy.
Shop your local junk shops, thrift stores, and flea markets.
Here's a similar distressed piece recently featured at Rose & Grey:
Mom and I found the vintage, solid wood dresser pictured below in a church's thrift shop. It was marked $75 but all of the furniture was 50% off that day! Most thrift stores have sale items almost every day of the week.
While I'm a regular shopper at Goodwill and the Salvation Army Thrift Store, you just can't beat the prices at church and non-profit organization thrift shops. They seem to be a little more motivated to move merchandise - maybe because their space is usually smaller.
The chair shown on the right was priced at $6.
On the left, a similar chair is being used as a bedside table.
How cool is this 1980's fancy phone?!
I don't know exactly what this antique
cabinet is for but I like it!
Who wouldn't want to take this vintage stroller home:
Take a look at the next three pictures of a 'faux distressed'
cabinet I found at T.J. Maxx. As you can see, it's priced
at $399 - ridiculous.
cabinet I found at T.J. Maxx. As you can see, it's priced
at $399 - ridiculous.
Now look at this flea market find which was priced at $30:
Don't automatically pay retail when something grabs your fancy.
Shop your local junk shops, thrift stores, and flea markets.
Here's a similar distressed piece recently featured at Rose & Grey:
Mom and I found the vintage, solid wood dresser pictured below in a church's thrift shop. It was marked $75 but all of the furniture was 50% off that day! Most thrift stores have sale items almost every day of the week.
Last week I posted a few pictures of French Provincial
dressers that had been redone. Priced at $37.50,
this one would be ideal for a re-do project.
These darling little chairs were $5 each
at a local church's thrift shop.
Here's what a clever decorator did
with similar little chairs:
Take a Saturday and treat yourself to a tour of the thrift stores in your area. You'll be amazed at the bargains you'll find.
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