Another ebay day and shopping foray… Hooray!

Today is Wednesday and I have gone on my thrift store “route” the past two days without any luck.

At my first store this afternoon I found these:

Solid Steel bookend in the shape of arrows.

They were prices separately and I asked the manager if that was not a mistake, as they are a “pair” of bookends.

So I got them for one price.

Turns out these are C. Jere’ vintage bookends and I put them on ebay this afternoon.

We will see which way they go!

Hopefully UP UP UP!

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What is this?

All I know is that it was 99¢.

Did not buy.

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I have never never never seen so many security cameras in one building in my life as in and around the Salvation Army store on my daily route.

They have about 7 on the front of the store…

and about 20 or more on the inside.

Really.

I will count them tomorrow.

It does puzzle me why they need so many cameras.

It also makes me wonder with so many cameras how they can avoid NOT seeing into the dressing rooms which have no ceilings in them.

Ewwwww…

This is a thrift store!

Not a biker bar!

They have a little office with a one-way mirror (really!) and if the door is ajar – you can see those cameras doing their job.

(Hint:  Don’t think you can scratch an itch in private anywhere in this store)

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I drive past this on my daily route:

I am going to have to stop with my good camera one of these days and get a better photo.

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:

** Goodwill COLD Turkey – and I mean COLD! **

Hello, my name is ______, and I have not been to Goodwill for over 4 days.

I am a shopoholic.

At least that is how it FEELS.

I have been sorta ill and then the snow came and then the ice and then the COLD.

So, what to do whey you cannot go shopping?

I shop at home.

I go to a shelf, or closet and find something I no longer need – and sell it on ebay.

Today, it was this fab arts and crafts era design book from 1915.

I so like how they deconstructed bugs to make art.

So then I decided that I had a whole lot of “little” stuff to get rid of and packaged up lots of Wacky Packages from the 70’s and vintage travel stickers – old buttons- and whatevers into cellophane envelopes and ready to sell at the antique mall – where I have a small space.

It is supposed to snow the next couple of days.

School has been closed so far this week – and again tomorrow.

I am a LOUSY driver in the snow.  (Fabulous in the rain!)

And I am lucky that I have someone in town to keep the office open for me.

So tomorrow, I guess I know where I will be shopping once again…

************ Fire and Ice ************

I like living where I do.

It usually rains all winter.

I LIKE the rain.

The temperature in the winter should be 40-50-ish day and night in the winter.

Something has gone terribly wrong today…

This is supposed to be a RAIN chain!  Not an ICE chain…

It is 23 degrees outside and might I say that is it a toasty 67 degrees inside.

The best part is that the heat is free!

Look at this woodstove – it is keeping about 1/2 the house warm with wood from our land.

What is that drum-like contraption on top of the stove, you ask?

Well – it is an amazing thing, indeed.

It has a metal plate on the bottom that, when heated – spins a fan and forces air downwards over the top of the stove and along sides of the stove – and all that nice warm heat – goes down towards the floor and slowly rises and heats up the house.

I have had a ecofan on the stove for years, an when I put my hand in front of it – no discernable airflow could be detected.

I was looking for another type fan and low and behold found this one on ebay.

This drum type fan – kicks butt.  The airflow is dynamic and it has won me over!

The ecofan has been designated to the secondary woodstove in the kitchen.

We really don’t use this stove to cook on(we have a real one) – just for junk mail and supplemental heat in the winter.

Look.

Free Heat!

Ain’t that what it is all about?

* * * * * * * * Oh yeah! I still GOT it! * * * * * *

The little silver unmarked pitcher that I picked up yesterday at Goodwill, is indeed a “Good Thang.”

It is handmade by a firm in Argentina called Airedelsur.

These sell for a couple of hundred dollars.

Nice….

I listed it today on ebay!

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If you paypal – they will come………… Sock Monkeys arriving daily.

I opened the box to this weird fetal sort of image.

I was getting a little nauseous….

Mable said to hurry up and get past the squeamish part, as she wanted to meet her new pal.

Surprise!

TWO new pals!

** SOCK MONKEY MADNESS * * * And then there were THREE * *

I sold something for too much money and it gave me wiggle room financially to give into the addiction that may be called – “Sock Monkey Madness.”

I just got this sweet gal in the mail today.

What a kind face.

She looks like a “Mabel” to me.

Check out her background info:

I went on a weekend sock monkey binge and I will have the consequences of the monkey madness arriving at my office all this week.

I consider my mail carrier an enabler…

Here I am at work. Blogging. Good thing I am the boss!

Good thing I AM the boss!   It is kinda quite today at work – I brought my laptop to do maybe a couple of listings on ebay and got sidetracked by the dust bunnies under the desks.

So I have just finished sweeping and vacuuming and I thought it would be a nice time to work on this thing called – Blog –

My office is in a Victorian house built in about 1875 and this is the view of a tree last fall through the wavy glass.

Nice, eh?

OK!  The phone rang and I have work to do.   Might even earn a little money today… ya just never know…