My “Happy” Find

Yesterday I returned to the antique mall where I found and purchased the special tea cup for the tea cup exchange.  After looking at the said cup and saucier over the weekend I decided I wanted to buy a second one for myself.  When I bought the one to send away I brought it home [...]

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Another Tea On Tuesday

Rarely do I find the time to share my thrift store finds anymore, but today my new book stash is perfectly coupled with teatime.  On my last trip to the Salvation Army shop books were on sale.  Never have I been able to resist a book sale so I browsed the shelves until I read [...]

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I Feel Like Making…

something today, but time does not allow for it, so I’m sharing something I recently made.  Last month I hosted a “Because I Have Two” giveaway.  The very humble gift was recipe index book.  I planned an unannounced surprise to accompany the book…unannounced mostly because I had not decided what the “surprise” would be…and a [...]

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Shopping Goodwill

This morning I learned of a new way to shop Goodwill and had to share.  Goodwill now has an online auction site to sell goods that have been donated.  shopgoodwill.com I’ve browsed just the craft section and found lots of interesting buys.  Check it out.  Who knows what you might find.
Until next time…
If you’re offended, [...]

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Simple Solutions

I’m passing along an excerpt from an email I received this morning from Everyday Cheapskate a free newsletter sent out by Debt-Proof Living.  Some of the solutions were new to me, and with budgets being stretched like elastic (hopefully they will bounce back) every penny-saving idea helps.
Homemade Cleaning Solutions Are Cheap and Green
As politically incorrect [...]

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Meeting Mr. Hill

This morning a trip to town to pay my car payment was mandatory.  I would almost have rather taken a beating than leave the house after the past two stormy nights we’ve had.  The weather rocked, and I got almost no sleep.  All our dogs insisted upon sleeping with us, and I woke up exhausted.  [...]

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Rainy Day Thrifting

The weather in south Mississippi is not fit for man nor beast today, but rain, sleet or  snow, fresh eggs must be delivered when promised.  I mustered up my courage and left the house in a downpour.  The weather man has promised no clearer weather for the rest of the day.  If he is right, [...]

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What $1.55 Will Buy

Isn’t this baby quilt sweet?  I was pleased to find it and may not be able to part with it now that it’s mine.  This little treasure is hand embroidered.  It was pretty stained when I got it, but two trips through the washer and lemon juice in the sunshine cleaned it up pretty nicely.  [...]

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“Things go better…”

I’m playing catch-up with blogging these days.  Life has a way of standing in the way of doing the things we want to do if we’re not careful…and it can be chocked so full of the things we want to do we can’t get to all of them.  Thankfully the latter is my excuse for not [...]

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Friday Thrifting

At 2 o’clock this morning a battery in one of our smoke alarms became weak enough to warn us it was time for a change.  It started making an incessant “I’m dying” beep about every 15 seconds until my DH woke up at 4:30.  I didn’t have the heart to wake him up, and because [...]

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