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Category: New to Me – Thrifting Adventures

  • I got up super early for the second day in a row, why? To thrift of course. Sciarrino and I headed up to Portland to hit up some sales, not something we usually do, in fact I’ve only been garage/estate/church sale shopping up there a few times before. It’s so hard to figure out which ones to hit, where to go to get to the next one, everything seems to be so spread out. But we stuck to one corner of the city this time and had some luck. Also I know I keep going on and on about it,…

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  • My god daughter is one, I friggin can’t believe it. A wooden doll house with all this awesome simple wooden furniture. Total score. It was the sale last weekend that I had to get up crazy early for to get a number, but obviously worth it. It also came with a wooden train. V seemed to like it, it’s huge compared to her. So since I got her a gift I had to do cute wrapping and a card.  Of course I had no blank cards that I liked. So I improvised. This is two envelopes stuck together. It worked…

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  • So I was scanning the classifieds today for sales tomorrow and there were quite a few strange ones: 7-Family Yard Sale Friday & Saturday 9-LateDeals Made ~ lives changed! MOVING SALEQuality merch. No junkor clothes. SELLING THE FARM &IT’S CONTENT’S (I liked that one because you pay by the character, and since the apostrophe is unnecessary they basically paid extra to make a grammatical error – what do you think about that Luke?) And my favorite: Fri 8-5 & Sat 8-?7 never worn weddinggowns, furniture, car,misc antiques &more! Uh… 7? Really?

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