SiouzQ.
11-7-12, 4:47pm
Eee-yikes, even as I posted last week about how I would like to save at least an extra $100 per month, I find myself hitting the thrift stores on my days off while running other errands, because you just never know what treasures you are going to find...at least I have a lot of ground rules I have made up for myself, such as getting rid of an old and functionally useless thing to make room for a new item, is it worth my life energy to drag this item home and let it live in my space, and is it under $5.00? Yes, yes and yes.
Today I scored at Recycle Ann Arbor, which is THE cheapest place to find all sorts of weird stuff. Being that Ann Arbor is a college town rife with rich (?) students depositing all sorts of perfectly good items by the curbside, Recyle Ann Arbor is a place that will pick up said stuff from the curb and let anyone drop off any sort of household goods, construction material, reclaimed lumber, sinks, toilets, doors, cabinet, furniture, dishes, books, toys, games, garden stuff, etc, etc. I had decided that I will purchase nothing new for the house but have been coveting some coffee mugs (one recently broke and the other is cracked and stained). While perusing the funky aisles of this place, I found two coffee mugs in the same colors but with different patterns that go with my existing kitchen stuff for a total of 70 cents. Moving further into the bowels of this warehouse, I found two really cool couch-type pillows that EXACTLY matched my living room decor in color. I didn't really need them, but they were in excellent condition and were only $1 each.. Fluffed them in the hot dryer for awhile and now they are sitting on the futon couch, looking cool! Lastly, I purchased a home made checkerboard game as well; not sure what I am going to do with it but is just really cool in all of its folky glory. All in all, I spent a total of $3.71 and got just the kind of cheap thrill of the hunt I've been looking for without going overboard with it (though there were a couple of cool old board games with wooden pieces at $2.00 each I kind of stashed way back in the game corner just in case I wanted to go back for them...;)
Today I scored at Recycle Ann Arbor, which is THE cheapest place to find all sorts of weird stuff. Being that Ann Arbor is a college town rife with rich (?) students depositing all sorts of perfectly good items by the curbside, Recyle Ann Arbor is a place that will pick up said stuff from the curb and let anyone drop off any sort of household goods, construction material, reclaimed lumber, sinks, toilets, doors, cabinet, furniture, dishes, books, toys, games, garden stuff, etc, etc. I had decided that I will purchase nothing new for the house but have been coveting some coffee mugs (one recently broke and the other is cracked and stained). While perusing the funky aisles of this place, I found two coffee mugs in the same colors but with different patterns that go with my existing kitchen stuff for a total of 70 cents. Moving further into the bowels of this warehouse, I found two really cool couch-type pillows that EXACTLY matched my living room decor in color. I didn't really need them, but they were in excellent condition and were only $1 each.. Fluffed them in the hot dryer for awhile and now they are sitting on the futon couch, looking cool! Lastly, I purchased a home made checkerboard game as well; not sure what I am going to do with it but is just really cool in all of its folky glory. All in all, I spent a total of $3.71 and got just the kind of cheap thrill of the hunt I've been looking for without going overboard with it (though there were a couple of cool old board games with wooden pieces at $2.00 each I kind of stashed way back in the game corner just in case I wanted to go back for them...;)