Saturday, December 18, 2010

December 17th

Another unbelievably mild day here today...we've had such a lovely fall!

spent about $8.50 (tax not included on items in 1st picture)

no sales at all today, so we went to Loveland Goodwill and the McKee Thrift Store. Both Micah and Savannah were with us, so a good time was pretty much guaranteed in any case! There were also plenty of holiday shoppers combing the thrifts for a good deal...we found a few, and hope they did too.

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  • 2 cords with plugs for rope lights (or modification)--1
  • handbag frame--1
  • big wooden/clay beads--1/all
  • softcover, book about the Blue Mountains in Australia--33 cents
  • softcover, book about the history of Estes Park and Grand Lake--33 cents
  • cut glass candleholder--50 cents
  • softcover, small British kid's book--33 cents



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and we found this beautiful Shetland wool sweater (made in Hong Kong) in near-new condition for an unbelievable $4.54 (incl tax and Sr discount) at Goodwill. Definitely the buy of the day, (like the Tibetan one I found last week), incredibly nice, warm sweaters for such reasonable prices!!


Friday, December 10, 2010

December 6th

a beautiful, mild sunny day!

spent $29.15 + tax

no garage sales today, so we went to 3 thrift stores in Longmont instead



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  • handmade sweater from Nepal--9.95
  • pkg of paint crayons--1
  • pair of black nylon ski pants (which I am wearing in the photo)--9.95


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"Whats It??" of the day, maybe the year...

  • Joe found and bought this little contraption--8.25

did some research when he got home and it is a cleaner (possibly ultrasonic?) used by watchmakers to clean watch parts. This one is possibly a model from 1947 (research continues) and it seems to work, at least as far as Joe can tell...