Thrifting Finds

Hey girls! Hope you all had great weekends! DH and I got some home improvements checked off our list and it just feels *so* good. :)

I thought I’d show you some of my finds from the past few days.
Our local Volunteers of America has a 50% sale (on everything) the last Wednesday of the month. Lindsay and I make it a point to go – it’s marked on our calendars!

I found mostly household items that I’d been looking for:

- two mini glass bowls
- four more white salad plates (still need white dinner plates)
- a white bowl that matches the ones I bought last weekend (I love it when God lets cool things like that happen!) {forgot to add it in the pic}
- spatula b/c I needed a firmer one
- salad dressing shaker for all my vinaigrettes that I’ve been making
- canister for my poison Splenda (I promise I will give it up someday. I really want to but when you haven’t had real sugar for 5 weeks and 2 days you need a little something to hold you over!)

Plus I found this cute little white shelf to go on my desk to hold a few of my crafting supplies and a wire basket for my kitchen:

I also found a small silver cup to hold our pens by the phone:

However, I totally had a hold-the-phone moment when I walked into the furniture section and spied this desk:

Hellloooooo pretty girl! :) It was originally $59.95, then half off – so $29.98!!!!! It is solid wood and I am in looooooove. It looks totally Pottery Barn to me! I know that I will have this desk for years to come - it’s not an antique by any means, but the lines are classic enough that it will be in style for a long time. I try to find pieces of furniture like this for my house; I’m definitely not a mod girl by any stretch of the imagination.

The knobs are a little…eclectic…but that’s no problem for me to pick up a few new ones!

Here it is with the top down:

I am so glad I decided to buy it!

I also had to stop at a church rummage sale on Saturday for their $1 bag sale. My cost was ONE DOLLAR for every item you see left in this post!

- white salad plate similar to the ones found at VOA
- sugar holder to add to the “white” collection
- 3 black frames
- One Year Devotions for Moms book (this was an extra 25 cents outside)
- cute mini vintage Christmas ornaments (awesome for filler)

If you’ve clicked over from Finding Fabulous, the rest of my items aren’t house finds. :)

One of my favorite parts of these rummage sales are the great (and sometimes designer) clothes you can find – at basically less than a DIME apiece! You can’t beat that!

- cream Isaac Mizrahi cardigan (love!)
- green J. Crew lounge pants (you can never have too many of these!)
- Banana Republic black pants
- wool cardigan from The Limited
- lace shirt from Arden B.
- an incredibly soft Schnauzer shirt (clearly NOT designer) that I just had to pick up as a new bedtime tee. Imagine my husband’s delight when he found out he’d be seeing a lot of this in his future. :)

Yup, I am a satisfied thrifting customer!

Visit these blogs this week to see what others find on their yard-sale adventures:

Today’s Thrifty Treasures @ Southern Hospitality
Thrifty Thursday @ Tales of Bloggeritaville
Frugalicious Friday @ Finding Fabulous

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{About Work Your Wallet Wednesday: I’m postponing the party until June. I’m hoping maybe more of you will be yard-saling them and will be willing to post pics. Thank you SO much to all of you who have participated thus far – I for one enjoyed seeing what you all found! :) }