April Thrift Store Haul

      I don't know about you, but thrift shops are one of the most wonderful places in the world to me. My family lives off of one income, since my sister and I are homeschooled, my mother stays home to teach us. Besides that we also have two/three side jobs, delivering the gazette, cleaning a local church, and my mom makes and sells soap on the side. So naturally, we can't always go to the top stores to stay in style, instead, thrift shops have been a basic staple in our shopping. That's where I tend to get most of my clothing and jewelry. My favorite thrift store is in Pennsylvania called Community Aid. Rows and rows of clothing- and cheap! My family usually goes on Wednesdays because all clothing items are 50% off except for one color tag. It's a fabulous deal!

     If you came into my room, you would obviously be able to tell that my room is collected, not decorated. Not that my room looks bad, but because you couldn't find some of my items in a typical store. I can point out so many things in my room that was a sweet deal from a thrift shop.

     Most people wouldn't say that we're spoiled, but I find it that we are. We get great stuff for cheaper prices, but when we go to a top store we find that $30 is just ridiculous for any shirt. And it's funny that $8 is cheap for a shirt at a top store, but expensive at a thrift store!

 

First we went to Marvin Chapel and I found this adorable seahorse pin, it was $2 which was a bummer...(bad price if you ask me) but I love nautical jewelry (or just everything nautical really) so I couldn't pass it up. I need to figure out a way how to turn this adorable pin into a necklace!

 

Then I spotted this adorable envelope necklace! I've seen ones like these on etsy and it was only $1, just another thing I couldn't pass up. It originally had a red string as the chain, but I had a gold chain at home that I wasn't using, so I put it on this!

Did I mention that it's a locket? I wanted a locket for Christmas to put a picture of my dog, Mandie and I in. We searched lots of places but couldn't find the right locket. So I figured, why not this one?

The next stop was "The little house" we don't really know what it's called! I've been trying to collect Disney classics, and the one I hadn't been able to get my hands on yet was 'The Little Mermaid' I was excited to find it there! And only 50cents. And the book is from the Arthur Trilogy, ever since I started watching Merlin from BBC I wanted to find Arthur books, only 25cents! Good start!

THIS WAS JUST ADORABLE!

They. are. salt. and. pepper. shakers.

Just. Adorable.

And only $1! I looked it up on Amazon and it was $10 on there.

I believe this is what you call a "steal"!

 

&

$3 each!

And they are adorable. They would have been around $20 each!

So excited to use them (and they're lavender scented!)

Last stop- the church. I finally found a pillow pet! And it's a Zebra! Gahhh!

Only $1.50!

This was an interesting find.

The product is called Sweet Rock and there was at least a dozen choices of  their Incense Burners for a dollar each (except for the huge ones, which were as big as a large restaurant plate, which was $2) I'm really excited to use it!

The purple packet on the left is Cedar incense powder and the yellow packet on the left is Egyptian Musk incense powder which is probably my favorite(It smells so good!)

I finally found their website for when I run out of powder:

http://sweetrockincense.com/catalog/sweetrock-powdered-incense-p-95.html

And they have so many choices for only $4 a packet.

Though I would search on ebay first.

I think Poison and Wild Flower incense powder would be interesting to try.

 

The woman that checked out my items must have been selling a lot of the Sweet Rock products lately, and gave the whole thing away for $1.50

That's $1 for the burner and 25cents each packet of powder!

(Also a steal!)

 

A total of just over $13 for 11 items! I LOVE thrift shops.

 

-The girl wearing that yellow sundress