October 2021 – The Thrifty Sisters

My niece came to visit for her Fall Break this week…and she made me watch the movie “Confessions of a Shopaholic” (thus the title for this week’s post). I’m not sure I’m going to be able to recover from this addiction anytime soon. But admittedly there are some real pain points, not the least of which being storage space for treasures. I’m thankful that I still have a good amount of storage space to go, but I also realize that it is the downside of frequent thrifting that results in carloads full of treasures.

Space–or the lack thereof–is a perfect place to start this week’s blog post. I was up in Indianapolis again this weekend and on the way to breakfast with my mom we came across a sign that said “Vintage Sale” – when we came back from breakfast my mom suggested that we stop in to see what was there…and low and behold there was a Redmon basket sitting right up front. Turns out, the woman holding the sale was trying to clear out a garage, that had gotten filled up when she emptied out her storage shed to make a she shed. The shed, and then the garage, had been crammed full of items from a vintage store that she and her daughter had. Anyway, back to the sale: In addition to the basket I also found a few flower prints and a teacup…and I got to tour the she shed. It was hands-down the coolest shed I’d ever seen, and I have a pinterest board full of them!

That afternoon, I spent a little time at two of the goodwill outlets. It wasn’t as epic of a haul as last weekend, but I did manage to find a few fun things in the mix…including a few puzzles that were brand new or in bags, a lovely fur stole with the owners initials sewn into the lining (miraculously found inside a hand-embroidered pillow case just before a rotation), three Fiestaware bowls (buried under a pile of discarded clothing) and some dollhouse furniture in not-too-terrible shape.