It’s a good week…
May 10th, 2010…when I can hit three different Goodwill stores in my regular errands & travels. The past four days have been good to me: a pile of books for Hazel; an overstock plate from Target with the “ABs” on it (she picked that one out herself – “ABs!! ABs!!”); toy enamel kitchenware for her that I’d wonder the dating of if it didn’t have Ikea stickers on the bottoms; a Pyrex bowl; a carafe that I’ve already got two of (eek); a little tin bucket for her kitchen utensils (I picked up tiny bamboo forks, spoons, knives, and a mixing spoon in Chinatown in TO for a quarter each); a small piece of fabric; a cheery metal tray and two Fire King mugs.
Parkersburg.
Morgantown.
Clarksburg.
How is it that I can make 17 fruitless thrifting trips in a row and then when it rains, it pours? Is this still spring cleaning? I’m getting really excited about Hazel’s play kitchen plans – I need to start getting to the ReStore a few times a week to look for furniture to hack. The more I think it about it, that seems much more fun than building from scratch.
May 10th, 2010 at 10:54 pm
Wow, great finds! My grandma had those mugs and that Pyrex bowl too. Brings me back to childhood.
May 11th, 2010 at 6:36 pm
What’s the ReStore?
May 11th, 2010 at 7:09 pm
http://www.habitat.org/env/restores.aspx
It’s on greenbag road, just past the dirt mall, at the end of that little string of places on the left.