#thrift surprise

[shiftythrifting]

The straight up jumpscare I got opening my unassuming Goodwill picture frame and finding this hiding behind the cardboard backing.

[rozmorris]

It began with a hat, in praise of charity shops and thrift stores, recycling, random starts for rewarding writing careers, the majesty, allure and tragedy of mountains, books I'm working on, a little horse https://mailchi.mp/6caa636c6926/it-began-with-a-hat-dave-of-legend-allure-tragedy-and-majesty-a-little-horse?

[rockingpow3r]

Dress from thrift store Nerea.room

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[beanbagbuddies4life]

Mary Meyer Coyote & Wolf from 1994

via x + x

[nostalgicfun]

This is probably Too Niche, but to the vivid dreamers out there: do you ever get nostalgic for a place from your dreams that isn't real? I have recurring locations in my dreams that just. don't exist. And I find myself thinking about them or having "memories" about them even though they don't exist and never have. But they're real in my heart even though I'll never go there.

(tell me about these places in the tags, I'm so curious)

[heckyeahponyscans]

Today one of my cats needed to undergo a cardiac checkup, which was going to take a few hours . . . but also the clinic was an hour's drive from my house so it would have been pointless to go home only to turn around and drive right back again. So instead I hit all the local thrift shops (which had the added bonus of letting me pick up items I could sell to offset vet bills, ha ha) while I waited for the clinic to let me know I could pick him up.

So, Goodwill is a widespread thrift store in the US, most of which are set up something like a typical store (except nothing is new in box obviously), with items divvied up by category. The toys are in one area, the blouses are all on the same rack and are sorted by size, etc etc.

However, there are also Goodwill Outlet stores which instead have long blue troughs on wheels, with items thrown in higglety pigglety.

Shoppers scrabble through the items, and periodically the employees shoo them away, remove a whole row of troughs from the floor, and roll out new troughs. The shoppers hover around, and as soon as the employees give the word everyone falls upon the new troughs like a feeding frenzy.

Not only that, but at these Goodwills you pay for goods by the pound. I think the price varies by location; at this one it was $1.26 per pound.

I've been to Goodwill Outlets before but never found many toys (though I did pick up a duvet I've used for over 10 years and I once found a perfect condition Fluppy Dog), but this one? OMG. SO many toys! I found two G1 ponies, a G3 Ponyville playset, a Barbie jeep from the 90s and so much more.

Anyway, if you have a Goodwill Outlet store near you I recommend checking it out, the chaos is pretty fun.

[danneroni]

🚨 TOMORROW 🚨

Hand curated surprise bags from my personal bead collection! 🧵

Catch me at Cal An park in Seattle. Leftovers will be available online 9/18 🌈✨

[sweetiepie08]

So I picked up this copy of The Giver from a Little Free Library box this summer.

I just looked inside today and saw that it was signed by Lois Lowry 30 years ago!!!

Love Little Free Libraries! You never know what treasures you’ll find!!!

[nonbinarydollie]

🩵snowlicious restyle🩵

✨look 4/10✨

i've been wanting to try out these little knot buns for a while and i feel pretty happy with the resultss. can't wait to get better tho

idk why she's so orange in these pics

[colourfula]

Feelin cute and good lately. I hate to sound like a broken record but most of my wardrobe do be thrifted at this point

[sojourner-between-worlds]

So it begins

[shiftythrifting]

Never felt such a need to commit murder untill today

[consumedshadow-mysticmc]

I can’t wait to open this up! I just found it at a salvage store.

[kitsuneroach]

ahh, look, look!! in the 1980 sesame street book “Don’t Forget the Oatmeal!”, miss piggy is pictured on one of the magazines!! i love these kind of references so so much.

[heckyeahponyscans]

Last weekend's thrifting finds!

Peach Blossom has a stain on her other side but how could I leave her <3

[safety-pin-punk]

do you know of any good responses for when cishets call people gay as an insult? also love your blog and it’s helped me a lot!

I'm glad my blog has helped!!!

Not gonna lie here, I've actually never been called gay as an insult. I've been mistaken for being gay pretty often though. (We love wearing mens clothes and short hair in this house though lol)

But the best response I've ever had to any insult is simply 'yeah, so?' or 'Okay, and?'. It kinda takes the the insult down a notch by acting like you are not affected by it

Though of course anyone who has experienced this specific problem is welcome to share your thoughts in the notes!!!!!