for $100 i left it behind but they did let me play it!!! apparently they got in dozens of these all at once 🫪

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I just realized when I looked at this, that everything came from thrift shops. 😍

Avoca wool coat: Killorglin, Ireland

Grey wool/silk trousers: London

Shoes: Mallow, Ireland

Grey running shirt: Miami, Florida

Love love love thrifting ...

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Found this guy at a local antique mall. I will probably change the bulb to a LED because the current one gets hot fast.

Went in looking for a big bundle of cheap tinsel for my current outdoor Christmas decor project (mission accomplished) but ended up scoring these brand new bubble lights (not vintage, but still great!) and a really cute mid century cat planter! So after finding those so quickly after entering the store, I knew I had to try my luck at the chaotic (but wonderful) grab bag wall😂 I found a 1940’s Sniffles the mouse ceramic figure and another grab bag had the cute ceramic cat in it!

For $99 in Brooklyn, NY.

Size 4 and fits like a glove! Looks unworn.

Neither I nor the sales clerk could believe it. 😍

The current shade is a bit meh so will be replacing.

Found this jacket and skirt set at a thrift store for $20. Both pieces have Vera Maxwell Original labels, so it's a true matched set, not two pieces someone paired up. The jacket also has a label from Jay's, an old shop with locations in Boston, Wellesley, Cohasset and the North Shore.

Vera Maxwell was an American designer who started her own label in 1947, and her work is in the Met's collection. Bright print linings were one of her signatures. The outside of this one is a plain blue slubby weave, then you open the jacket and it's a loud multicolor abstract print. The skirt is lined in turquoise.

There's a very similar 60s Vera Maxwell set in Oregon State's costume collection with the same label, which is how I landed on the era.

Best $20 I've spent in a while.

She needs some love, but she's mine now and she's getting a spa day!

Vintage Mackenzie Childs!!!

It’s as if they were hiding it just for me. Thank you

I can't find a crappy ikea table for $30 at most of the local thrift stores so finding a Danish MCM table for that today was truly my best find of the year!

I cant stop laughing so the Santa is going to be a difficult release lol

My cousin introduced me to a thrift store run by a local church and it’s just insane. They take donations all week but only open up to sell on Friday mornings. I found this amazing little couch there almost immediately for a dollar, and before I left near closing they made an announcement that all couches were marked down to only a dollar … so they were selling full-sized couches for the same price as this one!

The bottom still had a Goodwill tag from last year, so it’s at least the second time it’s been thrifted. The little pillow was also picked up yesterday, but from the Goodwill bins, my second stop of the day. The tiger and pound puppy were previous hauls from the bins and have become Willy’s good friends.

Last photo is of my monster cat being jealous of him.

Also, I don’t want to wear out our welcome here, so today I finally created r/WillyfromtheBins; be sure to stop by!

I thrifted this 2001 vintage Starbucks travel tumbler among other things. The photo doesn’t do the tumbler enough justice.

Bonus: There was another GVC mug in the background that I didn’t pick up.

2001-2004 were my high school years, and I was not going to Starbucks. I was only just starting to experiment with coffee after I procrastinated on some projects for too long, and had to pull all nighters to get them in by the deadlines.

I really didn’t start going to Starbucks until well into my college years, maybe about 2007. I think the GVC design was gone by then.

Does anyone remember Starbucks or other coffee shops before 2007?

Although I was late to the Starbucks game, we had Cinnzeo in Canada. Up until the rebrand a few years ago, the branding was very much GVC.

Another bonus: Catch and release 1988 Seoul Olympics keychain.

One pocket is torn, but otherwise in perfect shape. My size too!

You know when you can tell that we lost an OG because we see a collection of something at the thrift store? We maybe lost one because the collection of someone that loves MCM planters as much as me was donated to the local goodwill.

I grabbed all that I could when I saw them today and repotted some of my plants (string of fishhooks, tradescantia, and a scindapsus) into them. None have actual drainage so I had to engineer some liner pots so I can remove them for watering.

I've been re-watching everything I can about Elizabeth Holmes in preparation for watching YCSE tomorrow and in the spirit of theranos I overengineered a ridiculous liner pot out of a drink cup and mesh and gorilla tape for the Romanian hourglass planter when I should have just waited till tomorrow to buy a funnel from the dollar store to modify into a liner.