OMG – I am called the Queen of thrift stores and garage sales, antique places, flea markets.  I have a pickle relish dish from 1874 bought at a thrift store for 50 cents. , a 1938 platter for 2.00, long silver tray for 3.00, 1920s dishes for 15.00, whole set,  vintage christmas items like santa mugs for 50 cents each.  You never know what you will find in a thrift store. 

Best flea market is in Canton, Texas, firs monday every month.  you will never see it all.  I have been going since 1976.  Round Top, TExas is another one twice yearly but a bit pricey and some of the tents you pay to enter – high dollar stuff, but fun to attend.  all along the side of the road there are tons of tents set up.  Best thrift store is in Bowie, Texas – Hospice Thrift store in a 100 yr old store downtown.  unreal – when I lived there I volunteered there.  It is like a department store – large and has everything.  I loved working there.   I was their research person to find out how much things were worth.  Amazing what people get rid of too. 

I want to go to that longest garage sale in June some day too.  When I lived in Bowie, Texas – three smaller towns had a town garage sale every year – everything was cheap wherever you went.  I was a car load day.  I always look for canning jars to.   I collect depression glass, milk glass, hommer laughlin riveria dinnerware, marcrest oven proof dishes, blue willow, early american prescut by anchor hocking in the 60s, green frankoma, off white pottery,

it is a great stress reliever for me – love it. 

I love EAPC – I have almost all of it and some green and amber pieces too.  4 for the syrup containers is good.  6 is the cheapest I have seen it.  I just love it. 

I just love garage sales! I own very few things that weren't bought second hand! I just bought a solid wooden bench with a lidded storage area under the seat. Its just a little one for a kids room but it looks great in the corner of the living by the woodstove. It holds all the paper and cardboard and some kindling for the stove. It was only $3 !

I wish my hubby would get interested in shopping second hand! He won't go near the place, although he loves that I do. We have completely different interest when shopping, anyway, so its probably just as well.

On Friday I picked up two large aquariums with lids, lights and filters. One is 10 gal and the other is 30 gal. The 30 gal one is 3' long and I traded soap and eggs for them! No cash!!

I am setting up the smaller one in the livingroom. I am not going to use the big one for a fish tank. I have the light over seeds in the window and the tank is going to be a greenhouse on the deck, for now. After spring I may set it up but its too big for the livingroom. If I put in a small pond this year, I can keep it shallow with just a few small fish. I can put them in the big tank for the winter in the basement.

I'm thrilled! I love aquariums and ponds. I had three tanks when I had a pond.

Now I have to find a little table or stand for the smaller one at the second hand store.