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    Home » Thrifting

    She's Buying Brownies Again!

    Published by Pam Kessler | 585 words. · About 3 minutes to read this article. - 26 Comments

    No, I'm not off my diet. Yet.

    I'm buying the other type of Brownies. The Kodak variety.

    I found this Brownie Hawkeye (manufactured from 1949-1961) at our town's annual yard sale last weekend.

    Vintage Brownie Hawkeye Camera

    I think I've decided that the #1 reason I love old Brownies is their bakelite bodies. There's something very sexy about them.

    Since I haven't done a good "Hey, look what I found" post lately, I thought I'd better get you up to date.

    I about peed my pants when I found this gorgeous apple bowl made by Fire King for $4 at a yard sale.

    Vintage Fire King Apple Mixing Bowl

    How 'bout them apples?

    At the same house, I also bought this McCoy mixing bowl for $4.

    It was a four-buck bowl kind of place.

    Vintage McCoy Mixing Bowl  (fish scale, artichoke or petal, feather pattern)

    I bought these on Saturday and the lady having the sale just about gave me heart palpitations when she said "Oh, if you like bowls you should have been here yesterday. I had a really big green McCoy bowl that I got rid of".

    First of all, "got rid of" and "McCoy" don't belong in the same sentence. Second of all, Holy Schmoly! Why didn't I stop by this house on Friday!!!

    Oh, that's right. I volunteered to work the field day at my son's school. On a Friday. During prime yard sale season. The things we do for our kids 🙂

    I am drawing a total blank on where I bought this first aid kit. Pretty sure it was a yard sale. No idea where. I didn't even take a photo of it and put it on Instagram, which is really weird.

    Johnson & Johnson First Aid Travel Kit

    I'm sure it was a fantastic deal though!

    I found these Burns Manufacturing serrated knives at a yard sale for 25 Cents. For the bunch. Not each. Not that even at 25 cents a piece that would be a bad deal!

    Burns serrated knives and milk glass salt and pepper shakers

    I've seen the handles described on Etsy and Ebay as butterscotch bakelite. Not sure if they're just hyping up the knives by calling them bakelite or not, but they are nice knives either way.

    The sewing machine drawer and milk glass salt and pepper shakers were bought at another sale for $5 for the lot.

    I'm usually weird about actually using my vintage salt and pepper shakers, but these are large enough that I can soak them real good and get all the mouse droppings dirt and grime out of them, so I may just end up using them.

    I bought this fan along with the hammered metal serving tray in the next photo for $1.37.

    Vintage green Coronado fan

    At the time, I only had a $20 on me and a bunch of change in the bottom of my purse. The lady didn't have change for my twenty, so I tried to pay her in small coinage. By the time I had counted out $1.37, mostly in nickles, she just stopped me and sort of shooed me away.

    All that's left for today's game of Show And Tell is the fruit basket which matches the ones I had on my porch last fall.

    Tall fruit basket and stamped metal tray

    A girl can never have enough fruit baskets in her fall decorating arsenal.

    Whew. All done now.

    I feel much better now that I've gotten that all out of my system and you are up to date on my thrifty finds. I hate having things that I've shown on Instagram, but haven't shown on my blog yet. It just feels backwards, you know.

    OK, see you all later. I'm off to find a brownie. Of the chocolate variety this time . . .

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    1. Sir Thrift-A-Lot

      May 31, 2014 at 11:39 pm

      Great deal on the FK bowl, but I am sure you know that. I only have 4 FK bowls. ONly 1 was a thrift find.

      Reply
    2. EM

      June 01, 2014 at 9:41 am

      I found a cool Kodak Brownie film projector yesterday at a church sale. It was marked $3, but I got there right as things were going half-price. Could not pass it up for 1.50!

      Reply
    3. Lara

      June 15, 2014 at 9:41 pm

      Lord, your finds are AMAZING. Of course I LOVE the camera and that yellow bowl gives me heart palpitations. The green one you missed out on CANNOT POSSIBLY be cooler than the one you ended up with so just put that right out of your mind. AND THAT FAN. I am jealous all over.

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