Thrifting Finds #67: Finally!

At long last I have some good news to report.  Or at least I won't do any whining.  How's that?

Can you guess what's coming?  That's right--I actually have some thrift finds to show you this week!  I mean, how long has it been?  A month?  Two?  Too dang long to suit me, anyway.

Plus, Hubs and I went to a new store that we'd never been to before.  Or stores.  Or store.  I'm really not sure which.  Hubs works with a guy who also likes to thrift and he told us about a place down in Silver Spring, or that general area.  We found it, and it's kind of the strangest setup we've seen.

So it's a Value Village.  So far, so good.  But right next door to it, and without any walls or anything separating it, is something called Unique Thrift.

And the two places were mirror images of each other:  each had a housewares section, toys, clothes, etc of its own.  I'm not sure if the checkout aisles were specific to one of the stores or if they were interchangeable.  I might not be making myself clear here (I'm kind of in a rush today), but take my word for it--it was strange.

Not to mention busy.  We went just after noon on Wednesday, and the place was packed.  I shudder to think what it's like on the weekend.

Other than that, we just made our usual rounds.  Here's what I came up with:

1.  Bigass Corningware Roaster!  I thought I had all the Corningware I needed, but I didn't know this existed.  You can't really tell the scale in the picture, but it's enormous.  Seriously, I could roast Honey in this and still have room for potatoes and carrots!

Not that I ever would, of course.  It was kind of a mess when I got it, but it cleaned up nicely.  I'll be using this on Thanksgiving.  Goodwill, $5.00

2.  Old Razor Blades!  Say what?  Yeah, kind of weird, but I've noticed that these injector blades have a huge cult following.  Plus, they often go for crazy money on ebay.  I'm going to try a pack for myself and see what all the fuss is about.  Once I get the razor, of course.  If I like 'em, then I'll keep all three packs.  If not, I'll sell two.  Goodwill, $0.47/ea.

3.  Barbie's MOD'ern Cousin!  At first, I thought this was Barbie, but it's actually her 15-year-old cousin Francie.  I saw her in a plastic bag on the above mentioned Value Village's Wall O' Crap.  I think what I noticed was the brunette hair in the sea of blonde Barbies.  As far as I can tell, she's a 1969 model, which I think makes her vintage.  She seems to be missing a button on her blouse, and one of the buttons on her skirt fell off, but I still have it, so I'll try to attach it.  Value Village, $3.00

4.  The Plate I need!  Yep, finally found one at a price I was willing to pay.  Oh, and just to make it clear, despite the existence of this plate and the two other pieces of Butterfly Gold I bought this year--I do not collect Butterfly Gold.  Period.  That's my story and I'm sticking to it.  Goodwill, $0.48.

And that's it, but this is more than I've had to report in quite some time!  So this week, I'm not ashamed to link up with Sir Thrift A Lot, Thrifter/Maker/Fixer/Farm, We Call It Junkin  and Vintage Bliss Tuesdays

Thrifting Finds #59: Thwarted again!

Greetings, fellow Thrifters!

I hope you had a better week than I did, 'cause mine was kind of pathetic.  Not as bad as a couple of weeks ago, but pretty sad nonetheless.

We had good intentions, but were thwarted.  Turns out this was the Goodwill's weekend for their company picnic.  This happened last year as well.  Now, we were at all three of the closed Goodwills last week.  Did any of them have a sign in the window?  No.  I mean really--is a week's notice too much to ask?  Geez.

So.  I wish I had some chatty news to share, or an amusing story at least but...yeah.  I got nothin'.

Well, okay, here's a little story.  Remember last week when I was looking for some Butterfly Gold plates to replace my Exploding Centura?  First time in months I didn't come across any. Or any Corelle, for that matter (I wasn't locked in to Butterfly Gold.  I'd have taken pretty much anything.)  Well lookie what I found this week:

1.  Spring Blossom Green!  So now I feel a little better that I won't be exploding any more dishes in the microwave.  I fully expected to pay a buck a plate for these, which I was okay with because it would save my better china. Imagine my shock when I saw they were bargain priced--Goodwill, $0.48 each.

And that's it for thrifted finds, I'm afraid.  Hubs and I also stopped at a flea market, but other than a couple more tubes of Avon hand cream, neither one of us found anything.

What I Made Department:

I haven't done this in a while because I haven't made anything interesting lately.  Yesterday, I made a dish from White Trash Cooking:

Nobody's Corn Topper Casserole!  I offer this up not so much as a look at something tasty, but more as a warning.  Don't make this.

The ingredients seemed okay--green beans, onion, ham, cream of celery soup, creamed corn with a little Bisquick added (??)  I put some cheese on top because it seemed to need it.  Hubs, who doesn't like creamed corn said that was all he could taste.  All I could taste was the green beans (canned green beans are as bad as canned peas.)  It was both extremely salty and extremely bland at the same time, oddly enough, and the undiluted soup was a bit cloying. And the ham had a weird, pointy mouthfeel.

It looks kind of good though, doesn't it?  Which only served to increase our disappointment.

I probably shouldn't even bother, considering, but I'm going to go ahead and link up with  Sir Thrift A Lot, Thrifter/Maker/Fixer/Farm, and We Call It Junkin. anyway.