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oracle-fae · 3 months

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My favorite thrift find to date. Signa Tastesetter canisters and a teapot. They're currently on top of my kitchen cabinets until I decide what I really want to do with them!

#mine #thrift #thrifty #thrift store #thrift store finds #cottagecore

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date-a-jew-suggestions · 1 year

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Just found a charm bracelet at a thrift store that I can tell was owned by the most amazing Jewish woman

Who’s bubbe was wildin in Vegas. I need to know more. I’m obsessed

#jumblr #judaism #thrift store finds #like??? oh my gd

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peepingnee · 1 month

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Found this amazing organ at the thrift store today

Tag yourself...

Personally I'm Orbit to Leslie

#thrift store finds #thrifting #tag yourself #dancing fingers was my second choice

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packratshiloh · 2 years

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I am so excited for this thrift find

#toy collector #shilohscollection #toy community #marionettes #puppets #marionette puppet #nostalgia #toys #90s #00s #thrift #thrift finds #thrift shopping #thrift store finds

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wafflebloggies · 5 months

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Lucanus quisquila (Junk Bug)

I found a good deep box frame, and ended up putting together a bug to go in it. She's made from paper clay around a tinfoil shape, with stocking stretched over to smooth it out, and then just a lot of beads, cardboard, and bits and pieces from my junk drawer.

#my arts #beetles #found materials #junk art #steampunk #a little bit anyway #clockwork beetle #beetle #thrift store finds #mixed media #mixed media art #victoriana #fictional taxidermy

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tenaflyviper · 2 years

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What in the hell did I just find??

#thrift store finds #adventures at the thrift store #Cowsmopolitan #photo safari

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liyazaki · 1 year

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with all due respect, Kappie Originals Ltd.- this didn’t give what you thought it did.

edit: it. is. FINISHED.

#my favorite souvenir from my birthday trip #the duck’s blue bow will be getting a rainbow glowup #along with the stained glass + a pride flag somewhere #ideas welcome (but only gay ones)#i’ve GOT to find that frame that looks like a door #cross stitch #stitching #lgbtq #lgbtq+#thrift store #thrift store finds

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veronicaleafless · 7 months

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~ my best vintage finds for the home ~

#thrift store finds #finding freedom #internet finds #find your look #finds #thrift finds #my finds #etsy finds #cute finds #vintage #cottagecore #green gables fables #cottage moodboard #flowers #100 likes #cottage academia #green witch #garden #dark academia

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alienejj · 25 days

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thrifted bookish finds 26/feb/24

I took these pictures myself. Some of these books are old, some were just poorly handled over the years, and all were thrifted across the second-hand stores of Dublin.

Three books and one postcard that i found inside one of them:

The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry.

A Ghost in the Throat by Doireann ni Ghriofa.

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V. E. Shwab.

Was not ever interested in reading 'The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue' right up until I came across the sexiest copy of a novel I've ever seen. it looks like some Fairy Crate edition or something. Very pretty, and a pretty book always makes it easier to read regardless of the whole 'never judge a book by its cover' thing.

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madhattersez · 1 year

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Hell yeah! Had an awesome find at a thrift shop today - A 1929 Southwestern Bell Telephone technical manual and installation guide for phones of the era.

Maybe you're asking why I think this is awesome? Haha. That makes sense - Well, first of all, I -live- vintage stuff. Antiques, old books, weird ephemera of the past. This definitely fits in with all of that, and has a gorgeous, punched leather cover with the gold stamping. Such a slick piece of history.

Second, I'm an old computer nerd cat. Back in the early '90s, I was a phone phreak - a phone hacker back before mobile phones and even alphanumeric pagers were a thing. It was in these days that "Ma Bell" (Southwestern Bell) was a big Queen on the scene, in her prime.

What were common phreaker practices back in the day? Well, it was all about exploration and curiosity. We would wardial (using our home landline connections and modems to dial a huge list of numbers in a row to try and find systems on the other end rather than regular phones - I'd leave it on all day and come back with a shorter list of various systems to dial in and play around on), we would build blue (and other color) boxes from RadioShack parts to use payphones to make free calls and do all sorts of rad tricks, we would prank folks that deserved it or use said tricks to disrupt schools and business, we would navigate voicemail systems and change automatic messages, and we would generate credit card numbers (which was incredibly easy back in the day) to make free calls to our first girlfriends in Canada. Well, that last one was mostly a me thing, haha.

Basically, payphones and early phone systems were a wonderful, incredible playground for me and I have SO many fond memories of these times. To have a book like this in my hands feels like I just looked inside the Ark of the Covenant and instead of melting my face off, it just glowed real bright and whistled a 2600hz tone sweetly into my ears.

This has so many cool photos like the ones above, and lots of radical technical diagrams, too.

As a bonus, there are hand-typed notes from a division head telephone engineer that wrote about systems they were building in Galveston, TX in the '60s:

Anyways, this is such a cool relic and I'll probably not be able to bring myself to sell it.

Did you know I wrote a verse about being a phreaker for a song with Nerdcore legend YTCracker wayyyyyy back in 2010? Well, now you do. You can hear that here (I'm the second dude, of course):