Welcome to a catch-up version of Savvy Student Shopper’s thrifty finds! This covers most of the stuff I’ve found in April and May. I’ve been going to yard sales and the flea market, but I’ve had very, very little luck. Maybe people haven’t done their Spring cleaning yet?

Value Village is my hot spot, probably because I go every day! Now that I am officially finished school for the summer, I promise I’ll post more thrifty finds posts like I used to! I just hope I find some luck this summer because I will be leaving my favorite Value Village and returning back home on Friday. It’s bittersweet.

If you have any questions about what I bought or any questions in general, leave a comment or shoot me an email! As always, you are encouraged to share your thrifty finds!

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Welcome to yet another thrifty finds post! I find myself going thrifting more than I actually post or buy anything, but that’s alright. I thrift because it’s enjoyable for me. I usually go alone, so it’s my “me time” and I usually don’t buy something every time.

I picked up that cute dress (new with tags) for just $3 at a local thrift shop. It was marked $10 (prices nowadays at thrift stores/people reselling are driving me up a wall) but luckily another lady saw my disappointment and asked the owner for a lower price. See, it doesn’t hurt to ask for a discount! Well, sometimes it does. Most of the time people are nasty to me. I lucked out this time and I’m happy to add another one of these kind of dresses to my wardrobe!

This picture was from my trips to the Goodwill. From left to right, the Pyrex Opal fridgie was $2, but unfortunately it doesn’t have a lid. You know it’s a “true” Opal and not just missing all its color because true Opals do not have words or numbers on the bottom like every other piece. In the middle, we have a Pizzelle maker! I don’t normally buy small appliances, they are actually one of my biggest pet peeves (who has room for 20 kitchen appliances?!?!) but my mom has been wanting a Pizzelle maker so bad. She was going to buy one new, but they are like $30 and up! I found this one for $6 at Goodwill so I got it for her. She makes Pizzelles all the time now. When buying electronics at the thrifts, always plug them in first to make sure they work. On the right, is a Swiss Chalet chop plate. It’s a collectible print, though not Pyrex, but I will be trading with a fellow collector because it’s not something I collect.

At Value Village, I pretty much ran to this green bowl from the front of the store. Isn’t that color just fantastic?! It’s a Pyrex 024 bowl in bright/kelly green. It’s awesome and only set me back $2.50, totally worth it. It’s in great condition as well. I also picked up that white Fire King swirl bowl for $1.50 to sell, but for right now it’s being used to hold napkins and salt/pepper on our kitchen table.

The Fisher Price Happy Apple was also found at Value Village for $2. It’s from 1972 and pretty collectible. It makes the cutest sounds when you roll it around. I might sell it, but right now it’s smiling away on my window sill. I bought it because it reminded me of my blog mascot. 🙂

Okay, this picture should not be in the thrifty finds post, because it wasn’t a thrifty find. I splurged. Michael and I went to the antique shop and I found 3 pieces that were high on my wishlist and not awful prices (cheaper than Ebay/Etsy + shipping, but no where near thrifty of course). I left the one piece there and bought a pink 403 Pyrex bowl and a Friendship 503 refrigerator dish. Pink and Friendship are my two favorite patterns and I want to own every piece made in those two patterns. Since they are very difficult to thrift and I have been having decent thrifting luck on other pieces, I bought these two at an antique store price. Aren’t they gorgeous though? Sometimes you have to splurge. The 503 is sooo minty.

I’m off to go to Value Village again – it’s 25% off day 🙂

And now it’s your turn! Any questions, comments, or thrifting shares?! Talk to me 🙂

Welcome to another thrifty finds post! I know you have all been waiting for it 🙂 I just had to find some free time to sit down and write. I might have to start making videoes 😉 It may be faster than taking pictures and typing. I was planning on posting this post last week but then I got busy with our vacation and then I decided to hold off in case I find anything in Florida. Unfortunately, we did not have Pyrex luck in Florida. Nerdboy and I headed out one day to 2 antique malls and a thrift store. We also visited a huge flea market/swap meet, but most of the items were new/resell items. The first antique mall was so, so expensive. I have no idea where the get their prices from and if they ever sell anything. The second antique mall was a bit more reasonable. One stand even had a whole shelf of Pyrex! The prices were reasonable for an antique mall in my opinion ($12 for bowls, $9 for divided dishes, but $5 for a lid -ouch!). The seller really didn’t have anything I couldn’t live without, so I left empty handed. We drove all over trying to find a Goodwill, but it was not at the address listed online! The flea market was neat, but like I said, most of the stuff was resell items, like sun glasses, purses, As Seen on TV, and produce. There was one aisle of “old junk” but the prices were either too high (one lady wanted $8 for a Pyrex lid – seriously, old lady.. at a flea market?!?!) or just not something I am interested in collecting.

You guys know I typically buy any Pyrex that’s cheap… which is why I’m probably close to 100 pieces in just a year (Shh… Remember, it’s a collection, not a hoard.) BUT I am saving my money for certain pieces: PINKS, Turquoise, Friendship, and Promotionals. This means, I will continue to snag cheap Pyrex, but I will “splurge” at these antique malls when I see these select pieces, as long as the prices aren’t outrageous (the antique mall in Western MD wanted $99 for 3 pink bowls. I couldn’t do it!). I have a very hard time coming across Pinks, Turquoise, Friendship, and Promotionals which is why they go for a lot of money I guess. I head back to school next week which means I can return to my Value Village for my weekly thrifing and I am so excited!

So onto the thrifted goods!

About 2 weekends ago, my sister and I headed out to the local flea market. I was hoping I wouldn’t find anything because this time of year is not flea market season, and I didn’t want to feel obligated to go every weekend in this cold weather. But, I did have luck so I’ll have to continue going to the flea market every now and then during this winter.

For being so deserted this time of year, there was actually quite a bit of Pyrex at the flea market! I only bought half the Pyrex that I saw. First, I came across another Spring Blossoms 401 – yes, that’s my third one. This size bowl is just perfect though; I can’t get enough of them. And for $0.50 – you cannot say no! I now have one bowl in my complete set (pictured above), 1 as a spare cereal bowl in the cabinet, and the new one will go with my double 403 from Christmas (half way done set #2!).

I also found another snowflake dish! I already have a charcoal snowflake open baker, but now it has a friend! I got the turquoise snowflake divided dish for just $1.50! They are great for winter time!

And lastly, at the same table, I snagged a Royal Divided Dish with Gold Medallion Lid for $1.50! The blue bottom is beautiful and bright. Both divided dishes are in excellent shape! I normally won’t buy divided dishes, but these are a little bit harder to find than other patterns and they were so cheap! I love sellers like that 🙂

I’ll be heading back to the flea market this weekend, weather permitting, hopefully I find some goodies!

Now it’s your turn… share with me your comments, thrifty finds, or anything!

Hi guys! These past two weeks have been crazy. I’ve written so many pages of end-of-the-semester papers. If you notice any grammar/spelling mistakes in this post (or any others) then just skip over them. I’ll be refreshed after the new year. My last exam is on 12/18, so after that I’ll be getting ready for the holidays!

I love, love, love how popular my thrifty finds post are! I have readers commenting and emailing every single week about them. You all are great and I love that you share my love of thrifting (at least someone around here does!). I love going thrifiting. I try to go at least every week! I’ve cut back on the flea markets because it has gotten too cold and weekends have gotten too busy for me to make time. I’ve been hitting the thrift stores as much as possible to make up for the slow flea market season. I don’t want you think that I find something every single time I go thrifting and get your hopes up. I only find stuff worth buying about 1/2 the time. If I bought something every single trip… I’d be considered a hoarder, right?

Pictured above you’ll see a beautiful turquoise Pyrex cake pan (#221) from Value Village. It’s in awesome condition! After discount (I almost always go on 25% off day) I paid about $2.74 – a stellar price for turquoise! The other two bowls are dip bowls from the Pyrex Speckle Lines Chip/Dip Set. They are pretty hard to find, especially two at once, so I scooped them up. I don’t particularly like this pattern, so one I am trading with a fellow collector, and one is up for sale.

Nerdboy and I ran out to do some errands last weekend and stopped at the Salvation Army (and Panera. As usual). Thank goodness we stopped! I hit the jackpot (in Pyrex speaking)! It was one of those “OMG” moments while at the store. Surely I’m not the only one? I found THREE Refrigerator dishes WITH LIDS! And the best part they were amazingly priced AND 50% off that day. The littles were $0.49 each and the bigger one was $0.99. I almost died. And the even better part, they completed my Butterprint fridgie set. Halleluiah! I’ve been waiting for months. Final cost for this amazing set was only $3! Plus, I have an extra little one (501) that I got from a trade in October. I also found the (ugly, sorry) Early American casserole (#043) for $1. At that price, I had to bring it home. Everything was in beautiful shape. When checking out, I saw the cashier was wrapping up my glassware in the Saturday paper and saw the coupons lying there! He let me take them home too 🙂

 

My family knows I collect Pyrex, obviously. I mean, how could they not when it’s spread all over the house!? 😉 Sorry mom, I’ll move out one day! My dad’s friend found this bowl for me since he knows I collect Pyrex. It’s an Early American Cinderella Bowl (#441), but it doesn’t go to the normal bowl set, it goes to a promotional chip/dip set. It’s harder to find than the white one in that size.

The following week, Nerdboy and I went back to Value Village. I found another cake pan! And do you see the color? PINK -YAY! I paid $3.33 (or something like that) for the Pink Pyrex Cake Pan (#221). I found it in the bin that she had just rolled out from the back room – that’s good advice for you newbies, always check the bins! I also found a Pyrex Woodland small mixing bowl (#401). You know I collect all extra 401s for soup/salad/cereal bowls. They are probably my favorite size item. It’s in bad shape (dishwashed) but I couldn’t leave it for $1.21, especially when I’m trying to collect a spare of every pattern.

I’ll end this post by showing off some of my new sets! Above is my completed Butterprint Refrigerator Dish Set.

And here are my two new cake pans! I need the Lime one now 🙂

And my beloved stack of spare #401s. They make me smile so much! Granted, they are not the prettiest Pyrex colors, but I still have many, many years to collect them all (hint.hint PINK.. Turquiose.. come out of hiding!).

I hope you all enjoyed this long post! Please, please, please share your comments, questions, thrifts, etc! I love talking about thrifting and good deals. Happy hunting!