Thrift Store Treasures

Treasures this way

Whether you’re a seasoned thrift store veteran or a newbie, it’s always a thrill to walk into one of your local thrift shops on a lazy afternoon and discover treasures within.

For deep within the shelves or hiding on one of the many racks of clothes hide potentially amazing finds just waiting to be discovered.

Looking for a pair of jeans?  Look no further than the denim section of your local Goodwill or Salvation Army.  If you’ve got the time and even a tiny bit of patience, chances are you’ll find at least five pairs in your size just waiting to adorn your body.  According to “The Thrifty Chicks,” jeans shopping is one of the more sublime adventures in thrift store land.

Looking for a photograph frame?  Well I guess you could go to a retail store and shell out at least $10 or more for a simple wooden frame, or you could head over to  your local thrift shop or even visit a rummage sale or garage sale and possibly even bring home an instant ancestor or two.  Some of those secondhand frames are better made and have much more attention to detail than the mass-produced ones you will find in a mass merchandiser.

What if you’re needing some new cookware?  You could go to Williams-Sonoma and go into hock for a fine piece of crockery or you may want to venture into Goodwill, like I did, and find a perfectly good pan for your next meal preparation.  Now those clever Thrifty Chicks do mention something I had not also considered,

it made me realize that it’s former owner loved this dish and used it to create wonderful edibles for the people that mattered to her or him. It made me feel like this dish had an inherited knowledge of how to care for the items placed in it once it goes into the oven

How cool is that?  They call this haunted cookware.   I think that’s a fabulous term and really stirs the imagination (even as one stirs a pot of soup!) about the previous owner and the love they imbued into their dishes they served their families.

Now if you’re not the type to venture into a thrift store, there’s even a lady who’ll do that for you.  Just click on Esty.com’s Recessionista Vintage and you can shop to your heart’s content for cool retro clothes without ever having to step into a secondhand shop.

See, the more mass-produced items become, I think more folks are realizing the benefit in turning to the old, the familiar, and the reliable to outfit their homes, bodies, and lives.  It’s truly the ultimate in green, too, to buy second hand, and with a little imagination, thrift store treasures can be unearthed to bring joy and contentment to our lives once again.

Let’s think about what Napoleon Bonaparte once said about treasures:

“Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.”

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