Wordless Wednesday - Thrift Shop Find

A is for Apples ... à la Mode

Just a lovely little thrift shop find. Left it there after taking this picture, went back the next week and brought it home; it was waiting for me ... :)

Still in the Thrift Shops with Rosie

Still playing the game of searching for copies of this book at thrift shops ... ;) For the history of this perverse little amusement of mine, click here.

Life Isn't Always Just a Bowl of Cherries

Never take the "bowl of cherries" moments for granted; relish them. There are still pits in those cherries, after all. A phone call, a momentary blip .... As another loved one phrased it, "the sunshine (can) be snatched away from you" in an instant.

But for today?  Life is, indeed, a bowl of beautiful cherries ... :)

Wordless Wednesday - More Amusement at the Thrift Shop

Long-time followers know I always smirk when I see copies of this book languishing on thrift store shelves.  (Here's a previous post about it.)  So many bought the book, so many have discarded it ....

Go check 'em out on AnnArbor.com:
Yesterday: Moroccan Bread Salad
Today: Vegetable-Stuffed Baked Yellow Squash

In the Thrift Shops with Rosie

Remember when all the lemmings who follow Oprah's every move bought the cookbook that her personal chef, Rosie Daley, had written: In the Kitchen with Rosie???

Well, 'twould seem that no one wants the book any more. No matter which thrift shop I go into -- PTO Thrift Shop, Ann Arbor Thrift Shop, Value World, St. Vincent de Paul Store, The Re-Use Center -- I inevitably find a copy. The sampling offered below represents just the past few weeks' worth of trolling:








No profound observations to offer here -- it's just become a game for me to find a copy of the book at each secondhand store, so I thought I'd share my warped sense of amusement ... ;)

Super Bowl

I haven't done The Thrift Shop Tour for awhile, as I've been just a tad busy lately with long hours at work. But last weekend Tom and I went to one of our favorite stores -- Value World -- and I found something absolutely priceless: a generous serving bowl.

Now, this is not just any ol' bowl -- this was originally from Williams-Sonoma. Yes, indeedy, I found a bowl that would normally have cost about $100 just sitting on a shelf at the resale shop.

It admittedly has a very fine 2-3" crack along one side; both Tom and Jeremy pointed it out to me as though it were a fatal flaw ... men! They see damage, I see fabulous deal. Because you'll never guess what I paid for this bowl --

$20?

Nope.

$10?

Nope. Lower.

$8.50?

Uh uh. Lower.

$5???

Keep going.

I give up -- you couldn't possibly have gotten it for so little!

$2.87. That's right -- less than $3 for a huge, beautiful serving bowl! Just look how perfect it was when I made pasta a few nights later:

God, I love thrift shops!!!

Fabulous Finds!

I absolutely adore thrift shops, rummage sales and such! Cute, quirky, kitschy things at fabulous prices??? Oh, I am so there!!!

And it seems I'm not the only one, since there's an entire Nifty Thrifty Tuesdays group going on that I've only just found out about! I could enthuse about all the clothes -- virtually my entire wardrobe (I can dress myself from head-to-toe for less than $15 every day) -- I've bought for anywhere from 50-cents to $4. I could rave about books I've bought for a mere pittance. But, being that my little pink blog is devoted to food, it seems only logical to show off a few of the dishes I've acquired in my frugal travels.

Here are a couple of adorable espresso cups I found recently, while shopping with Jeremy. Jeremy, I have to say, is an exceptional shopper ... frankly, he enjoys it too much. So any 18-to-maybe-21 year old women in Ann Arbor who are looking for a handsome young man with a good eye, dedication to helping you spend your money on clothes or shoes or almost any other item that it's possible to shop for, and sufficient integrity to call you when he says he will ... my son is the man of your dreams!

I don't need these -- I drink half a pot of coffee every morning in a gigantic crossword puzzle-themed mug that Jeremy gave me a couple of years ago; these little cups hold a tiny fraction of what I normally ingest. But they are too cute ... and, coffee addict that I am, they are perfectly themed. So I have no room for them in my cupboard and no use for them ... did that matter??? Of course not! They cost me 80-cents each, I think. Jeremy said, "Get them." So I did.

These next two items are really very cool, and I've used them for drinking coffee (when the gigantic mug needs to be washed), for sipping tea, and for serving ice cream. They're more useful, since they're a standard size. They are a sturdy ceramic in lovely shades of periwinkle and light blue; and, as you can see, they feature the critical aspects of any beverage or food -- "flavour" and "aroma."



Most of my plates and many of my other cups are from sales and thrift shops, too ... what can I say? I can't turn down a good deal on something that might prove useful -- after all, I regularly take pictures of my food for this blog. If only I could write off my thrift store finds as "work related!"