#thrifted treasure

[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!!!

[hellenhighwater]

May I inquire as to where you found those dishes? They're lovely!

Everything I posted is either secondhand or something I made myself, so I can't be of much use. The plates are Sakura Galaxy pattern, if that helps you find them, and they also did white and green as well as the blue that I have. They're no longer made but I think maybe Target carried them once?

[lynxindisguise]

I think anyone in a creative field (or just in general?) should give themselves a little gift every time they get rejected ✨

[amandaherzman]

the blue poppy (and it's cousins)

had a little photoshoot for this month's herbologist reward. I adored how these came out -  if you’d like these postcard prints and the written folklore of this plant sent your way, please consider supporting my patreon!

[peekychu]

EPIC NEWS!!! After going to like 5 thrift stores with no luck, I accidentally found a vintage toy store and brought home Baby Moondancer with all her lil accessories 🥺

[madhattersez]

Hell yeah! Had an awesome find at a thrift shop today - A 1929 Southwestern Bell Telephone technical manual and installation guide for phones of the era.

Maybe you're asking why I think this is awesome? Haha. That makes sense - Well, first of all, I -live- vintage stuff. Antiques, old books, weird ephemera of the past. This definitely fits in with all of that, and has a gorgeous, punched leather cover with the gold stamping. Such a slick piece of history.

Second, I'm an old computer nerd cat. Back in the early '90s, I was a phone phreak - a phone hacker back before mobile phones and even alphanumeric pagers were a thing. It was in these days that "Ma Bell" (Southwestern Bell) was a big Queen on the scene, in her prime.

What were common phreaker practices back in the day? Well, it was all about exploration and curiosity. We would wardial (using our home landline connections and modems to dial a huge list of numbers in a row to try and find systems on the other end rather than regular phones - I'd leave it on all day and come back with a shorter list of various systems to dial in and play around on), we would build blue (and other color) boxes from RadioShack parts to use payphones to make free calls and do all sorts of rad tricks, we would prank folks that deserved it or use said tricks to disrupt schools and business, we would navigate voicemail systems and change automatic messages, and we would generate credit card numbers (which was incredibly easy back in the day) to make free calls to our first girlfriends in Canada. Well, that last one was mostly a me thing, haha.

Basically, payphones and early phone systems were a wonderful, incredible playground for me and I have SO many fond memories of these times. To have a book like this in my hands feels like I just looked inside the Ark of the Covenant and instead of melting my face off, it just glowed real bright and whistled a 2600hz tone sweetly into my ears.

This has so many cool photos like the ones above, and lots of radical technical diagrams, too.

As a bonus, there are hand-typed notes from a division head telephone engineer that wrote about systems they were building in Galveston, TX in the '60s:

Anyways, this is such a cool relic and I'll probably not be able to bring myself to sell it.

Did you know I wrote a verse about being a phreaker for a song with Nerdcore legend YTCracker wayyyyyy back in 2010? Well, now you do. You can hear that here (I'm the second dude, of course):

[treefish]

another spooky thrift find 🦉

[belle--ofthebrawl]

No, I don't have the Ghost Candles. But I do have a Catholic Twink and his scary dog privileges and honestly, I like it a lot better.

[thriftrescue]

The fact Mr Arrow's toy comes with his "faulty" life line and all that DOESN"T STRIKE anyone as MORBID? at thrift? his defining moment was... his CAUSE OF DEATH?

[manysketchbook]

Ogilvy Springer Spaniel | Douglas Cuddle Toys, 2018, Discontinued

Thrifted this a few months ago because she looks exactly like my childhood dog, a liver and white English Springer Spaniel. I love the details of the fur, it is similar to the way Springer Spaniels are groomed. Even has a docked tail!

This was really dirty when I got it. I had to wash the whole thing and use stain remover. Cleaned up nicely though, and the long fur brushed out without issue.

[shiftythrifting]

Even for goodwill this is pretty... half assed

[mascaraandmojitos]

Source: http://thecatladyii.tumblr.com

[spineless-lobster]

I got treasure island from the thrift store and it came with a little note!

To Gary. Xmas 1962. Love aunty Ann and uncle Mike xxxx

[theresawritesstuff]

From The Dressmaking Book by Adele P Margolis, 1967

[aviatrix-ash]

Discovered an estate sale of a fellow 🏳️‍🌈 mechanic/machinest who had quite the assortment of vintage gay magazines in their workshop. I think I would have loved to hang out with this individual who seemed like they were skilled in every trade from Hvac & welding, to tv satellite & sheet metal. A lesbian couple ended up getting all but 1 of the magazines (ha of course I got it) while I was distracted by this person's god tier workshop. Ended up getting machining & welding toys, and this ww2 era lookin drawer of various rivets. + a Cherry rivet puller & the rivets to go with it, which I'm super excited about cause used these are like 500 bucks & the rivets too are normally expensive compared to the standard solid shank types like in the drawers

Said mag under the cut, it's a little 🔥😆.

Anyone want to find out if the number still works? 😆

[miaeons]

not us thriftin an "ok lighting (c) dragon lamp"