Last week, Young House Love issued the thrift shop challenge. We decided to accept that challenge. First, familiarize yourself:
Challenge no. 1 – go to the thrift store with $20 in my pocket.
Challenge no. 2 – spend the $20 and take a photograph of the goods you come home with.
Here are the items we considered:
Sorry for the blurry picture, but I just had to include it. In case you can’t tell, the upholstery has a water wheel and stream scene printed on it. This was a three piece set. It was pretty tempting but we left it for someone else that could give it a good home. So what did we get?
The napkin rings and the Dora thermos (those suckers are expensive and this one was brand new, with tags, for $1.99)! I really did want that marble horse, but I just couldn’t think of a place for it so I left that, too. I actually only spent $5.03 total of my $20.00. I kept saying everything in there was “expensive”, ha ha.
Challenge no. 3 – Find one item referenced in the song and snap a picture of it.
I found the sweetest, cutest velcro shoes I could find.
I didn’t buy those either (but I kind of wanted to).
Thanks Young House Love for issuing the Thrift Store Challenge! It was a lot of fun!
sugarshellandbutterknife 
I actually have that marble horse, well two of them. They are bookends. I ‘borrowed’ them from my parents.
I thought it was a bookend but, sadly, he didn’t have a mate ;-( I would have ‘borrowed’ them, too, ha ha!
Haha, glad I’m not the only one. I feel mega cheap thinking, This is too expensive!, when I’m thrifting but I think it comes down to knowing market value better than the people setting the prices. If I can get something brand new for cheaper, it’s hardly a deal.
When I was in the thrift store, there was another mom in there with a little boy. He wanted this ugly, super dirty soccer ball lamp that was marked at $15! The mom said “no, it’s too expensive” and I laughed and said I was thinking the same thing. We were both trying to convince the little boy that he could get a much nicer, cleaner lamp for a better price somewhere else, ha ha. Poor kid. Double-teamed by two cheap moms 😉
I like the marble horse too, but it’s not worth buying if you don’t have a place for it! Good deal on the Dora thermos though!
I’ve been making a concerted effort not to buy decorative items just because I like them. I don’t want things to become too cluttered and have actually been trying to get rid of things before acquiring more things. Funny thing about the Dora thermos – I bought it because it was such a good price, and we use those things all the time, but my 14 year old daughter LOVED it. Apparently sometime between between age 8 and 8th grade, Dora became popular with girls again. Who knew?