Skip to main content

Lots of Stuff

I have been looking around for a couple of months to find some smallish, sturdy boxes to thrift for a project, with no luck until I found this lot of vintage cigar boxes. One is made of wood; the rest are cardboard. I'll be detoxing the cgar smell out of them for a few weeks before I get into that project. Run a search for vintage cigar boxes and you'll see how these can run anywhere from $10.00 to $50.00 or more for really rare boxes; I paid $12.91 for all five.

This is my nicest thrift haul to date for 2024: a home supply lot with all brand-new items. The cookie press alone is worth $14.99, which is what I paid for the entire lot. I thought the dash cam was a car mount for one, but it's actually a neat little cam and the mount.

This flood light also came with the lot; my guy grabbed it and put it out in the garage as its a type that he uses all the time outside. It retails for $14.99 new.

After looking up the prices for everything else I discovered I'd have to pay a total of $227.90 to buy all of this new. Savings: $212.91.

Labels:

Comments

Maria Zannini said…
I've always had a fondness for cigar boxes. I'm not sure why. I guess it's the nostalgia and the beautiful art that many of them had.
February 19, 2024 at 1:02 PM
Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

T-minus Day

This was our little Thanksgiving dinner last year, when it was just the three of us. Time keeps whittling down my favorite holiday; this year it will be just me and my guy, and we likely won't even have a turkey.* That will be a first in 35 years. I feel about Thanksgiving the way other people do about Christmas, and while it's a lot of work it's my favorite holiday. Of all the Thanksgivings I've had in the past sixty years, only three were truly terrible: one when I was a kid that I don't talk about (#1 most miserable); the time I roasted two turkeys together and hosted fifteen people whom I cooked for and served with zero help (the largest and #2 most miserable); and the one I spent in basic training (the #3 most miserable.) I have no pictures of any of those, thank heavens. In addition to doing all the cooking I'm the one who takes all the pictures, washes all the dishes and puts away all the leftovers. I suppose no one else cares because to them it...
5 comments
Read more

Fell Off the Wagon

I did cut up that plastic dollar tote to make into something stronger, but got caught up with work and set it aside. Then last night some hand-dyed silk and pretty threads called my name, and, well . . . Felt SO good to do some handwork, except my neck began hurting about an hour into it. I tried changing the way I sit and work, but it's pretty obvious that the doc is right.
7 comments
Read more

Old Loves & Such

My guy kindly bought me my favorite Chinese take out the other night, and my fortune cookie offered up an interesting story starter: This sounds sweet, right? Only the first thing I thought of was an old love coming back from the dead . . . . must be October. In other lovely news, my favorite hand-dyed thread artist, Lorraine from Colour Complements , is moving her business from Etsy to her own web site. Many of my favorite sellers on Etsy are leaving due to the whole "free shipping" coercion debacle, which has also soured me on the site. To show support I did a little shopping at Lorraine's web site and got in these: I love her threads and trims; you simply can't buy anything like them anywhere. Her work makes my specialty thread box look like a treasure chest: At night I'm spending just as hour working on quilting the scrap project runner, and I'm making slow progress: I'll keep quilting the runner while I try to decide on a design for t...
2 comments
Read more