What did you find thrifting this weekend? There was a pretty darn good estate sale in Pittsfield. I went up at the end and nabbed a ridiculous bunch of stuff at half-price… really, better even, money-wise… because I always just fill big boxes full of dinky strange old mostly useless things… so the dealers always just give my piles a glance and then give me one (almost always super low) price… because they know they also have to clean out the house after, and they know the stuff I buy would likely just go to the dumpster. They all know me, by now. I save them the trouble. Like, who in the world but me would get all grabby about 39 vintage spatulas that were Fuller Brush customer thank-you giveaways. Clear plastic spat’s still separated from blue plastic ula’s, in their separate original boxes… just sitting there, patiently waiting for me to arrive and to save them from a cruel end.
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Let the spatulas be prizes for a 50s recipe roundup….recipes from ladies’ groups — church, junior league, those spiral-bound books of such joys as
Tomato Soup Chocolate Cake (Campbells, natch!)
Jello aspic jiggle wonders (get your five fruits and veggies retro-style)
King Ranch Casserole (Texas specialty)
I second that idea!
Of course I have to admit that I own every vintage Jell-O mold known to man.
Worse yet, my grandfather who raised me was the local Methodist preacher, so I have a deep background in all of the Church Potluck Supper dish-de-lites. Well, really, there are a few I love and have refined, and most I just have to cringe at. We collect vintage cookbooks, too, and as long as the entries can be based on likeness to a cookbook picture I have a fighting chance! If you ever actually try to cook your way through any of the old BHG cookbooks you know it won’t be on culinary marvel, LOL! I skipped the chapter on varity meats…
Dave
I wish I had photos but I haven’t picked them up yet – 4 barkcloth 50′s pinch pleat drapes with gold fibers, pink flowers, on a grey background. Will match my pink and gold Formica table and new torquoise walls perfectly!
I’m green with envy!
you have no idea how psyched i am to pick them up.
love the lamps, punkrock and lin….and the shoes, and the furniture, and the dining set….keep posting, i love looking at everyone’s weekend finds!
thanks! they are so much more than i had hoped to find… i’m dangerously close to going back and cleaning out half of that store.
What a lot of fun to see everybody’s finds! I *love* those nightstands. Had my eye out for one but it wasn’t the weekend for them here. Maybe next time.
Thanks Gina, I got the whole bedroom set for 150..I’ve been stalking CL for months in order to score a complete set. Keep searching you never know what you might find…good luck!
Oh Gina…those shoes are TO DIE FOR!
I love all the finds…the Florida Alligator would perfectly in my house ; ) the lams, the chair, the glassware..all such pretty things!
I am in LOVE with that Bulova clock.
That is all.
ditto
I love that dinette. I’m still looking for one for my 1968 split level. Yeah for thrifting!!
Woah, Amber — that second light fixture in particular is FABULOUS! Where did you get it?
I love the atomic light (am looking for one, myself). and love the bulova alarm clock.
I picked up two awesome lamps and a few other odds and ends this weekend at an antique store in Northern Georgia on my mini-vacation.
I have the same Bulova radio. Mine is pink, but not in as great of shape.
Punk Rock Martha wins! Great lamps!!
I have the exact same Bulova turquoise clock that sits in my aquamarine kitchen. Mine is also In mint condition and works beautifully – only gets AM radio, but crystal clear AM it is! I absolutely love it and I thought I was the luckiest girl in the world when I scored it on Ebay.
That clock radio is a real treasure!
This weekend’s thrift score was a vintage Pyrex casserole dish, a few pieces of Canoe Muffin, and………..a vintage xylophone! It sounds great, too.
I started laughing at an estate sale today, very inappropriate I know, but I happened to find one of the spatulas that Pam found last weekend. I caught myself looking for a stash of them and laughed.
LOVE that Hey-Wake tiki hutch!!! I need one of my own!!!
I am thinking those 50 spatulas would make a great bottom layer fanned out around a wreath. Kitchen inspired, and you being the expert on fabulous vintage wreaths, I think some metal measuring spoons, vintage kitchen gadgets and voila you are golden. If I have planted a seed, I know you will expand the idea and it will be fabulous. Good luck!!