Last week Mark helped his friend Grant lug an almost-new mattress to a local Salvation Army store. It was actually one I hadn’t been to, but as soon as Mark returned and I heard the words “Pyrex” and “books” I was chomping to go.
A couple days later I nonchalantly gathered a bag of old goods* on the premise I was just going to “drop some stuff off.” Ha. Mark saw through that one pretty fast. He knows that trolling around second-hand shops is one of my favourite things to do. And it was worth the trip.
I picked up a medium-size red Pyrex mixing bowl for 99 cents. I love those things, although the ice blue is my favourite colour. (check out a set pictured here.)
I also found a really cute children’s swim towel/poncho-with-hood-thing. It’s a green terry-cloth dinosaur, brand new with tags! But my favourite purchase was something I spotted at the very last minute. It was behind the counter and I asked to see it. And within seconds it was mine.
Here it is:
I LOVE toys from this era. And unless I’m on eBay I don’t see them very often. What is it about these things that I love so much? I can’t even pin it down. This beauty is actually made of wood, and it works too! (more info about it is here.)
I motioned to the lady behind the counter that I wanted to buy it.
“It’s $5.99, you know that, right?” She sounded slightly shocked I would pay so much for an old toy.
“Yes, I know,” I answered. “That’s just fine.”
* among the things I gave away were tops that I wore in my early university days. The kind that goes way down and snaps under the cr0tch. LOL – anyone remember those? There’s many a dizzy drunken ‘eve I spent in a nightclub toilet stall, trying to get those little buggers snapped up.
