Don't Underestimate Giggle Value

I shop at thrift stores a lot.  Really, a lot.  Clothes, books, decor items, cookware, raw materials for my shop; most of the goods I buy come from second hand shops.  This is partly because I am cheap and refuse to pay full price for new when perfectly serviceable things are available used.  Mostly, however, I shop at thrift stores because they can offer some hidden gems found nowhere else. 

Sometimes these gems are beautiful and unique vintage clothing, or really high quality kitchenware for a bargain, and sometimes the value of a find is simply that it made me laugh when I saw it:

                        

             

The best part is knowing that somebody somewhere once bought these new, on purpose.  I love trying to imagine who it was and what their house must have looked like :)