Thrift Store Hauls: Crafter's Edition

No luck at the thrift stores or TM this week but I scored at Ms. i bought two new Halloween 12x12 pads, one with a Js 60% off coupon and the other was already marked down to 8.99! They had just arrived the day before.

I don't know how I almost forgot.  I went to an estate sale yesterday and the person was a crafter, paper crafts, wood, yarn, ceramic.  It was being run by a company for the family.  Prices were okay to way too high.  I bought a scrapping tote.  It's the kind that looks like a purse that stands on a table and has pockets and lots of places to put pens and scissors and stuff.  It was very clean and only $3.  I also got a hard cover paper crafts book for my oldest child for $1.  

There were paper punches new in packages for $3 each.  Some nice rubber stamps at $5.  They were new but I wouldn't pay more than $3 each for them, they weren't that special.  I would have liked to have been there at the end of the day to see what kind of deals they were making.  It was a cash only, one day sale.

This is what I am talking about when I complain that prices are too high. Unless these were pretty high end stamps, I think 5 bucks is too much to pay at the thrift store or an estate sale. I went to a garage sale this weekend and a lady had old stamps for 3-5 dollars each wood block. I told her (gently) that the reason they had not sold was they were priced too high. She said she was selling them for her sister and asked what I thought they were worth. I said .50 to a dollar each is what I would pay, or put a big bag of them out for 5 bucks. She said at that prices she'd rather donate them. Ummmmm ok.

Yes, the Ebay Garage sale mentality. That's what I call it. So many people have gotten into their thoughts that pricing for garage sales should be the same as Ebay. The new garage sale culture. Not tearing it down. Just the evolution of selling. Even if you read garage sale articles they tell you to look at what things are going for at ebay and price accordingly. I even have one thrift store the manager stands there with her phone and prices things for what they are going for on Ebay.

I made it to the thrift store (creative reuse store)! It was more of mixed media type of store and it was on the small side. It also had smells of all kinds of laquers and paints. I got a bit of a headache towards the end of my shopping.

It was kind of fun rummaging through the wood stamps and recognizing the year they were popular or when I had first seen them. I bought navy 8.5x11 cardstock, 5 for $1.00. A Reminisce stamp for 0.75, Studio G Stamp for 0.25, 2 sets of Thickers for $1.00 each, 3 tiny heart stamps 3 for 0.25, small wood sentiment stamp for 0.25, a Versamark watermark pad for 0.75, and an Autumn Leaves stamp set with 30 images for $1.00! It's called stamped and coded by Katie Pertiet. Each stamp has a word and a "bar code" around the word. I don't love the look, but it's easy enough to cut around the bar code for the words.

I didn't pay attention to the watermark pad. I've never used one! I figured it was black ink.

At Goodwill yesterday, I found a Basic Grey "Wassail" collection pack and a Scenic Route "Roxbury" collection pack. Both were priced unusually high for GW in my opinion, but it's not like these are readily available, so I bought them anyway.

I did some thrifting yesterday and picked up an 8x8 burlap d ring album...its way cute. no current plans for it, but it's on stand by I also found a few stamps from stampin up that I picked up. I also found some sterilite drawers that I am not sure I need but I could not leave them behind

I went to an auction last night and bought 2 new boxes of heavy duty, top loading page protectors. At $2 a box they were too good a deal to pass up. I know we'll need them for a project at some point.