I hit the jackpot at the habitat store!
10 years ago
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Comments (17)Sandy, I hope you are feeling better soon. Then we should meet at the SA. I bet we would have a blast. I could also show you where the Re-Use it Center is. I love it there. I got a couple of really great chairs to use in the garden to decorate up with pots for $5.00 each. I think they are great. That is also where I got the christmas teapot in the teapot totum I posted a while back. I have found some really cool stuff in there. My kids love to go with me and they always find something that they just have to have. My daughter is starting to get things around to get ready to move out and she found a set of 4 Mary Englebreit desert plates with cherries on them for 50 cents each. She has been crazy for cherries and cows forever. Now we are working on building a nice set of dishes to go with them. She loves it because she is like me...prefers that things aren't all matchy matchy. She is a regular junker like her mom!...See Moreour local habitat for humanity restore
Comments (15)Your "Restore" looks huge, ours is not that large and the prices are really high. I find a good deal there every once in a while, because I shop often. Regular old white globes (used) are $5.00, and a the plainest brass chandeliers are $35.00. I know the money goes for a good cause, but my it's high for my GJ projects. I'll keep checking, sometimes they have great stuff in thier trash pile. Frou...See MoreJunk store run with projects
Comments (11)The cups & saucers would make votive or tea light candle totems. Glue the saucer to the bottom of the cup, then glue a inverted bud vase under the saucer. Place them on small low poles along a sidewalk, and light the candles at dusk. TADA! Poor-mans solar lights LOL Others have made them the same way and use them as bird feeders. You just have to make sure to clean them regularly....See MoreJackpot lottery
Comments (13)I bought a few lottery tickets maybe twenty years back for my friends' Dad whenever he'd let me use his wonderful old beat-up Ford PU truck. It was red and had wooden racks and sounded gloriously ancient as it rattled down the road. It had a problem with the linkage hanging up now and again and on the coldest night of the year it hung up when I stopped at an intersection a block from their house. Francine and I bundled up against the wind and trudged back to her house to tell her Dad. Oh, my! He was not happy and I was shakin' in my boots as we followed him back up the hill to the truck. He bellowed, "Git down here, girl and learn sumthin' about a linkage! I 'ain't savin' yo' butts next time!" I crawled under the truck next to him and watched as his scarred black hands handled the flashlight and fiddled with some skinny lengths of connected aluminum rods. "Girl; you see where that piece is knotted up at the link? GRAB those two pieces and yank them out straight again! Lawd; it's cold!" I pulled; nothing happened. "Act like you got some sense, girl! I said, 'PULL' and I don't want to hear nuthin' about you cain't!!!!!" Well, it WAS freezing---this was not a fun adventure, so I yanked the heck out of those rods and they straightened out and innocently looked like they'd always been that way. All he said was, "Girl, don't forget what you just learned and don't y'all come whinin' again if sumthin' breaks!" Francine helped me haul some stuff and then we grabbed some goodies and hot coffee before taking the truck back. The next day I bought him five lottery tickets. He looked like he'd just won when he saw them! I made sure to always get him a few each time I borrowed his truck after that, He passed away suddenly a few years later. A nephew from DC took the truck and had it totally restored. I'm glad it was so loved and was still in the family. I never felt the need to buy a lottery ticket for me. It was much more fun getting them for someone else who truly believed his lucky day was coming!...See More- 10 years ago
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