Thrifting Enthusiast Gifts

5 & 10 Junk

"It looks like our house got sick and threw up the attic."

"It was terrifying experience being faced with that kind of compulsive, insane behaviour...I tell you it's positively the last time I put foot in the sales!"

Cut Price

Second hand furniture.

"This is a clever little shop. It makes you think it would be fun to own a lamp."

A women in a shoeshop.

"I shop, therefore I am."

The dumpster code - find something, leave something.

Queen of Upcycling!

Thrift: have your arms and legs amputated, use a pillow for a bed!

"Sorry sir - the self-propelling pencils have all just walked out..."

'If by 'great', you mean 'terrible', then yes, we have plenty of great beers for under $4.00 a six-pack.'

Thrift: New way to eat eggs (avoid needless transport costs).

'We are entering an era of thrift, so in place of champagne and canapes, there will be a jumble sale.'

When Tia Carmen says... "I got it for a very good price!" it means...she stopped at a garage sale on the way home.

"I just..."

That's supposed to say garage sale!

"Yes, it's nice my husband has hoarded a fortune, but it would be nicer if he would let me spend some of it though..."

"I love these old decorations!"

Goldilocks and the seventeen black shoulder bags

"There's more inside."

'We don't know what it is but it was in the sale so we thought we'd better get one before they sold out.'

Limerick On A Grecian Urn

A young couple selects items from a shop.

'Let's go and make some unfunded spending committments.'

'Tom will coordinate our pre-holiday point-of-purchase displays and Mark will coordinate our post holiday point-of-return displays.'

"If at first you don't succeed, buy, buy again."

Hips may appear larger than they actually are.

"'IF modom decides to change it' - don't you mean WHEN??"

It was a good chance to get together and talk shop.

"I need something that says, 'Let's party,' but in a fiscally responsible manner."

'Do you have this in a smaller size?'

Vintage Dresses: Your Frock Exchange

"Enough with the garage sales, Harold."