The following photos are of a LIME GREEN (yes, my all time favorite color since the 8th grade) jacket - $1.00 (1/2 off all clothing at a thrift store) , Persol sunglasses - 25 CENTS! , and a vintage jewelry box $2.00 (more photos and my plans in the next post).
Yes, I have more lime green in my closet than one person needs. But, I love this jacket.
The sunglasses have a story. I was checking out at the thrift store with the LIME GREEN jacket. There was a ginormous basket at the check-out filled to the brim with sunglasses. The sign read 25 cents. I peered inside with my right eye. Yes, that's correct. I skimmed the basket contents with my right eye. I reached in and grabbed this pair. I had my own sunglasses perched on my head. Mine are huge and kind of blingy, but I was in the mood for something different. I put on the basket sunglasses and asked the gal at the cash register if they looked alright. She was sweet and said they looked great. I bought them because they felt great on my face. I had NO CLUE what brand they were. They were in the bag and I thought I should check thru the basket to see if I liked anything else. I looked at EVERY pair in there and thought they were all junk. Later that evening, I was at home and pulling out my new treasures. I put on the glasses and saw the "Made In Italy" marking and the Persol name. No clue what Persol was, I decided to look it up. YES, that pair is going for $171.00 and that's with a 36% discount!
The moral of the story is to go with your first instinct and sometimes you only need to use one eye!
Goodie, Goodie for you as to the designer sun glasses and the lamps, Pacific, whatever.
ReplyDeleteRecently at a yard sale where they had many items they bought from Lowe's (like Home Depot, if you don't have Lowe's). They were discontinued items or ones they only had a few of. They sell the piles to people who work there who are having a benefit for another emloyee.
So far in the five years we have lived here we have attended two of these sales.
Point is, I really scored big on two sets of lampshades. One was Waverly Toile fabric that exactly matches fabric I bought at a going-out-of-business sale at a fabric store, and want to have a wing chair re-done in it. The price for such lampshades would be $50 each and I got them for $2 for the set.
Same sale, all-silk shades, $2 ech. Of course they are new in the wrap.
Jo in southern Virginia