All that shopping and what did I buy? What did I not buy?

I go shopping everyday.

Really.

It is my job.

Here is what I bought this week:

This is a myrtlewood/driftwood coffee table.

It is a great look and I am researching how much to list it for on craigslist.

This is a long – seven foot long wooden bench with hairpin legs and a great architectural look.

I put it on craigslist today.

This is a nice Wally Schwab covered dish.

The inside is like a yummy candy.

I paid $2.99  and this is for me to keep.

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Big photo on a board of a baby.

Creepy.

Reminded me of an old post-mortem photo, even though it wasn’t.

Did not buy.

A filthy shag carpet covered sewing stool.

Ewwwww.

Could not pay me to buy it.

A gold spray painted macaroni box.

Did not buy.

It’s a Jungle in there.

No big surprise that I go to Goodwill a LOT.

My new routine is to go to work – list on ebay and craigslist – do any bookkeeping that needs to get done  – pack ebay and then in the early afternoon I lock up the place and go to Goodwill #1 – then to Salvation Army – Goodwill #2 – back to the office to list what I just bought or whatever may need doing…. pick up the kid after school – back to the office – then late afternoon – back to Goodwill #1 – then home!

Whew.

It IS a jungle in there!

If only I could provide an audio snippet – you would hear the sounds of the wild children scampering through the store – screaming out in childish unrestrained joy at the big playground that is a Goodwill store.     I do not understand why management does not deal with this issue.

Maybe somebody already took care of this one…

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I see lots and lots of things that I have never seen before at Goodwill, and that is part of the fun of it.

This was a very curious chair, indeed.

I did not buy it – it was not in the best of shape – just had a funky shape!

Sharon painted this in 1977.

Musta been the era.

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Somedays when parents are hollering for their children across the big expanse of store and children are riding trikes around the store and blatantly ignoring the loud  requests from their folks and others are blocking the narrow aisles with their wide shopping carts – – – I feel like this:

A Fine Find was the Frigidaire Flair for FREE!

I wanted a Frigidaire Flair stove for the kitchen in my office.  The kitchen is quite small and narrow – I mean the house was built in 1875 – when kitchen size was not a priority. I am guessing that builders did not have the anything as mundane as a kitchen as a major feature in the construction of a home.

Anyway, I digress.  ( I almost always digress. I am a grand digress-tress – I guess…)

This was on Craigslist for $200 and I was the first to call.  Then they sort of flaked out and finally just called me to come and pick it up TODAY – as they were moving out.  “Come and get it off the porch for FREE.”

OKEY DOKEY!

If General Motors still made stoves like this – we would not have to give them a gazillion in tax dollars to bail them out.

I think a pink kitchen suits a mid-century stove.

Look at how little depth this stove take up.

Want a cup ‘o tea in the afternoon?  Just pull out the stove top and it is tea time in no time at all…

After putting a 21 pound turkey in and out of my home oven yesterday – the arm-level oven height of this vintage design just seems like common sense.

Does common sense say to give a big corporation a bail-out when they cannot run their business in a cost effective manner?

Hmmmmmm…..