I needed a cheap lamp for a nightstand and found this thing. It’s 30 inches to the top of the finial, definitely not nightstand material. I bought it anyway.
I thought it was really cute until I got it home and looked in its eyes. Now I see it as The Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog. And I love it even more.
@sammydog01 I don’t think you had any choice in the matter. You could also make it a Bunnicula lamp, or just call it a Bunnicula lamp? I don’t remember what Bunnicula looked like.
Do catshirts count? I may or may not have wasted spent some monies on a dozen catshirts (unisex, and were in my size!) that originally came from CatLadyBox. Free cat hair included, of course.
Also from the same trip, about 80 ft of USA made CAT 6 cabling, CMR rated. Under $20 in total, so that was a pretty good haul as some of the other thrift stores here want $6 for used t-shirts. It’s been months since I bothered with a Goodwill.
@sammydog01 They’re a surprise box subscription service for cat lovers. Too hard to justify that since I’m less a cat person and just moreso a catshirts person. Also it’s $36-$40 a month.
(I still haven’t adopted another dog since Bella crossed the rainbow bridge several years ago.)
@Kyeh@mossygreen@sammydog01@unksol
I remember years ago when small single serve boxes of wine were starting to be a thing. They showed up at one of the local grocery stores that didn’t sell wine normally and were even available to buy on a Sunday! I’m convinced I thought they were regular juice boxes! Pretty sure that would have cost them a fortune if they had been busted for it
Not a thrift store, but I picked up an antique Singer sewing machine in a cabinet for free, from someone who’d bought it at a thrift store and changed his mind. I might regret it.
@sammydog01 Well … first I have to figure out a place to put it (it’s still in my car!) And then theoretically I’ll see if it runs/fix it up/use it or sell it. But when this will happen is not entirely clear.
@tinamarie1974 - Thanks! @Kidsandliz, do you still have it? @Star2236 - I’d rather have a sewing machine cabinet than a pull-out bar, myself. I’m kind of sad when I see antique furniture converted into modern stuff, but I guess it’s better than throwing it away.
@sammydog01@tinamarie1974 I’ve seen a cord so it’s electric. It could be decorative, and might end up that way. I have a Singer Featherweight that I actually use already.
@Kyeh I picked up one of these about 20 years ago because I needed a really strong sewing machine to make 18th century replica clothing for my reenacting hobby. Not many machines can sew through even two layers of the thick, dense wool used in soldier’s uniforms. Then I moved, had no room for it, sold it, and have owned tabletop machines from the 80s and 90s ever since. I should have been doing more hand sewing anyway…
@ItalianScallion@Kyeh
our son used a similar one for his renfest and cosplay stuff when he lived at home. It was great for sewing thick canvas/denim and even leather on occasion.
Goodwills around here mostly have crap, but sometimes I’ve found some hard to find books and videos; picked up the one Alton Brown Good Eats cookbook I didn’t have, and another of the released DVDs that had a favorite episode on it. But otherwise? Meh.
@duodec Most of my stuff comes from church thrift stores. I don’t think they’re as good at researching prices and seem to have nice things. Also Goodwill has an online store, they probably put the valuable things up there. I can’t believe how cheap fine china is these days, I guess no one under 50 wants it.
@sammydog01 Thats what we found. China is not in favor for wedding registries any more either.
My wife was the executor for the estate of a dear friend of hers, and that person’s inherited-from-her-Grandmother china (complete 10-place Noritake set in pristine condition) was not wanted by any of her family, had marginal value on Ebay or Etsy, and even the specialists who sell pieces at craft shows and swap meets (to people looking to complete sets, which seems to be the only real demand) offered a pittance because they have lots of stock.
Its sad but most people no longer do fancy dining at home, or expect to bring out the china and silverware for family gatherings.
@duodec@sammydog01 It’s weird, though, because sometimes they have really interesting stuff you’d think they’d pull for the website. Same day I got the Limoncello, I bought a grab bag of knickknacks that included 3 1940 Disney Pinocchio figurines. They’re not particularly valuable, as they’re pretty beaten up, but the bag was $2.99.
@duodec I have a full set of china and silverware but the only porcelain I use is from calamityware. I did the Sunday fancy dinner thing for a while but no one seemed to care. I’ve been debating buying cheap stuff to fancy up my daily meals.
@romellex@sammydog01 We have the plain white Corelle for normal use, but we kept our Christmas Corelle for the season. Almost always just the two of us but it makes the meals feel special.
@duodec@romellex@sammydog01 I have the plain white Corelle too. I love how light it is (I used to have heavy stoneware plates) and how thin so you can stack a lot of it in a small space.
I found a bronze crucifix with a Buddha in the center at a local Goodwill. It is a Japanese artifact from the Kakure Kirishitan movement during the Edo period. I was able to find one other example in a missionary museum in Paris. I don’t think that it is especially valuable but it is very cool. I paid $4 for it.
@mikibell@Star2236@yakkoTDI I keep taking stuff to goodwill and buying stuff at the church store. I think I’m at a net negative amount of stuff but need to pack another carload soon.
@mikibell@sammydog01@yakkoTDI
At least it’s to the church store so you know for sure it goes to a good place. I like shopping and donating to the church store.
@mikibell We do a charity drop off run every couple of months, almost always to Goodwill. We’re going to move when we retire and this is early purging.
Of course I keep buying stuff… but I think we’re still net reducing a bit.
I bought a used plant at a local thrift store. It was $1 and seems to have come with bonus plants? Let’s all take a minute to enjoy it while it’s still green.
The bunny lamp is pretty awesome. Maybe someday I’ll have such luck.
@sammydog01@tohar1 Hi Sammy! I would love to bring you along to this thrift store. It’s a bit higher end, but the Amish frequent it and the prices are low. If you need a bonnet they’ll have one. I’ve seen vegetable plants and a lot of spider plants there. I think a local hobbiest donates the plants.
@pepper114@sammydog01 Aww, too bad the seedlings didn’t make it, but the plant looks great!
I once picked up a give-away amaryllis plant someone left in the curb. The amaryllis didn’t make it but there was a mystery plant in there too; it turned out to be a tiny chokecherry which is still alive.
@pepper114@sammydog01 Yeah, true; I have a couple of snake plants and they probably get watered once every couple of weeks at most.
Another thing that seems to live forever without water is aloe vera.
@Kyeh@sammydog01 I’m getting over a cold, and I still feel a bit fuzzy. For a minute, I thought it was May instead of February. That was the best minute of my day. Also, Happy Valentine’s Day!
@Kyeh@pepper114 Look like it got some dwarf friends. They should be happy together! I hope your pot has drainage, I managed to rot a bunch of these guys by watering like I would any other plant. I took the leaves that fell off and propagated then and now I have too many.
@pepper114 Wow, it’s looking great! @sammydog01 That’s really cute - I never knew the baby would grow that way.
I have some sort of mystery cactus that I dropped and leaf bits broke off, so I stuck them in dirt as an experiment, and they’re doing well. It’s related to Christmas & Easter cacti, I think, but the main plant has never bloomed so I don’t know.
@Kyeh@pepper114@sammydog01 I am not really good with the identification. The cactus or succulent subs on Reddit can be helpful for ID.
@Kyeh As for your one plant that has never bloomed I have found that all mine that bloom usually take at least 2 years before the first time. I did have one that didn’t bloom for almost 7 years. The funny part was that two of the parts that got propagated from it bloomed first. The parent plant didn’t bloom until I gave it to a friend because it got too tall for my condo.
@pepper114@sammydog01 - Yours is cooler, my parent plant doesn’t have those neat zigzag leaves; they’re just straight (edit: not straight, but symmetrically scalloped.) @yakkoTDI - I think I’ve had the parent plant for over 10 years; maybe it’s root bound or something but it’s so stickery I don’t want to handle it. Maybe these offspring will bloom one day!
@Kyeh@pepper114@yakkoTDI I started buying plants a couple of years ago (and when I start something I go overboard, especially if they come in the clearance section). I know very little but one of the plant types I’m having fun with are epiphyllums. They have flat leaves like the zig zag one in the photo but get really weird new growth sometimes, that one has a weird not flat thing in the middle with stickers on it.
So I don’t know but you might look up epiphyllum and see if that’s what you have? Most of them have scalloped edges. They are supposed to have beautiful big flowers but I’m not expecting mine to flower.
@sammydog01 I think you’re right that it’s an epiphyllum, and now you’ve inspired me to take better care of it. I’ve had it in my garage, next to a sliding glass door where it gets lots of sun, but I don’t water it often so it looks kind of sad.
@Kyeh I have some that look like that! They’re jungle cacti, I bet it perks up with regular watering.
@pepper114 I have a bunch of Thanksgiving cactuses from Food Lion. They were a dollar. My Easter clearance ones didn’t flower, I guess I need to look up what to do for next year. I bought so many…. Or I could throw them out.
@pepper114@sammydog01 Or you could offer them for free on Nextdoor or Facebook if you have them - I notice that on Nextdoor free plants go fast.
Now I really want to get mine to bloom!
I came across an older Wolf Designs automatic watch winder not too long ago. It was insane, they wanted $70, the PU leather is scratched and peeling in little spots and there was no power adapter. It takes 2 D batteries so not easy to even verify it worked.
The next time I went by there a few weeks later it was still there. It happened to be half price week for its tag color. I was too tempted as they are supposed to be top end winders, so I brought some D batteries to test it and wore my heaviest watch. Dammit if it didn’t work, and was silent. So I caved and at $35 bought one of these: https://www.amazon.com/WOLF-Heritage-Automatic-Watch-Winder/dp/B0055OCUR2
It turns out they are regarded as top end winders but they are really built as cheap and shittily as possible. Yet somehow they run silently and run well. Right now I use it as is to exercise my watches, but I’ve been debating whether to sell it as is, redo the leather cover on it and convert it to lithium batteries and USB-C charging and use it, or do that conversion and sell it.
@Kyeh If you lived here you could have your very own 1940’s French Chateau Limoge plate with 22k gold filigree for two dollars. It was the most expensive of the bunch. I like the horse.
The tag on the back states it was made by a church quilting group for sick children. While it was sad to see the whomever was give this gave it up unused (fabric was still slightly stiff) in the end I was the winner with this throw sized handmade quilt. There is another column of the flowers and the 3 color edging goes all the way around. My photo isn’t the best but the floor needs vacuumed and I don’t want to lay it out on the floor to photo again, nor on the bed covered in cat hair.
Someone on here makes quilts. I can’t remember whom. @Star2236? @kyeh? or was it someone else? (I can’t find the thread where I saw a quilt someone was making).
@Kidsandliz@tinamarie1974 I do some patchwork, but I still haven’t completed an actual quilt yet! @Star2236, you do some other crafts, right? I can’t remember exactly what but I remember you were making things for a craft fair?
@Kidsandliz@Kyeh@tinamarie1974
Yeah I do crafts for kids Santa shops for the holidays. I also do a lot of other stuff. I’m addicted to Pinterest. I love making wreaths for the holidays (not the kind with the mesh but more outside the box thinking and or rustic). I used to work with clay a lot, I have a gift cert to take a class for wheel throwing, all my stuff before was hand building, I love glass but haven’t soldered in years, I need a refresher course. I love making stepping stones and wind chimes from cut glass and birdhouses or garden stones filled with grout. And really up-cycling old stuff to have new cool purposes. I dabble in a lot. Like I said Pinterest addicted.
I really want to refinish our coffee table. It used to be a square table but then the legs were cut off. It needs to striped down, sanded and restrained. I’ve never had constant time on my hands like I do now but i also have a spare car sitting in my garage taking up. We really need a shed built in our backyard to house all of the lawn care items so I could have somewhere to work on something like the coffee table or something else big that I don’t want fumes inside the house in the winter.
@Kidsandliz@Star2236@tinamarie1974 Very cool! Maybe if you can find the energy, immersing yourself in creative projects will help you with the sadness and loss you’re experiencing. It sounds like you have a lot of great ideas.
@Kidsandliz@Kyeh@tinamarie1974
I think it’s gonna be a little while before I get back into any of that stuff. I just have motivation and I’m really anxious to the point I can’t even shower.
Best kitchen find: a made in France all-metal top of the line mandoline slicer for something like $20, never been used.
Best electronics find (I thought): an original 1947 model Hallicrafters S-40 shortwave receiver. I knew it had a deafening 60Hz hum and thought if I replaced the filter capacitors, I’d be all set. Nope. Then smoke started coming out. It’s been in the to-fix/to-finish-making pile of ham radio stuff for a year now.
@ItalianScallion I just grabbed an oxo good grips mandoline new in an open box for $6. It’s not vintage or all metal but it looks nice and ergonomic and probably still every bit as dangerous (but it included a kevlar glove).
I’ve been raiding the local thrift stores for more skirts that have pockets and belt loops. I’ve been finding more skorts than skirts, but a few minutes with some scissors can excise that entirely, or a few more minutes with scissors and a serger can turn them into lined skirts, which can be just as useful. I also found a denim romper that I can easily convert to a dress. And an almost scandalously short leather-look cargo miniskirt in dark steel-grey which was just so silly that I had to grab it. (And I know exactly where I will wear it.)
Went to Goodwill and found two unused (but not in original packaging) sets of the Wilton Looney Tunes cookie cutters from 1978 for 99 cents apiece. I grabbed them both and when I held one up to show my mother her whole body snapped to attention because she lost her set in our 2017 flood.
Oh my gosh! My best hauls were industrial fans lmao, like the kind for drying industrial paint, we were very specific sleepers… Grocery Outlet has smoked Gouda again
@DictatorChops Man, I wish we had Grocery Outlet in Illinois, they have the most amazing laurel olive oil soap (at least, they did–I haven’t been to one since 2019).
These two massive couches which apparently came from the google head offices when they remodeled somewhat recently. They were brand new and extremely high quality. I think we paid $300 for the pair and then paid them $100 to deliver it. Such a great deal. In fact we’ve made so many furniture purchases there because they always have amazing finds, if you’re patient.
I’m going to build a crazy console table to go behind them once my shop is finished.
I needed a cheap lamp for a nightstand and found this thing. It’s 30 inches to the top of the finial, definitely not nightstand material. I bought it anyway.
I thought it was really cute until I got it home and looked in its eyes. Now I see it as The Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog. And I love it even more.
@sammydog01 I don’t think you had any choice in the matter. You could also make it a Bunnicula lamp, or just call it a Bunnicula lamp? I don’t remember what Bunnicula looked like.
@mossygreen He had a black v on his head like Bela Lugosi. But mostly white.
@sammydog01 I love it!
@sammydog01 Hmmm, you could make a toupee that fits around the lamp part…
@sammydog01
All of a sudden they’re everywhere.
@sammydog01 It’s got big pointy teeth! And it can leap… Look at the bones!
@sammydog01 My friend Jimmy would love it and potentially steal it from you.
@mossygreen Oh man I could do an entire bunny themed room. NO I NEED TO STOP.
@sammydog01 BUT YOU’VE BARELY BEGUN!
On vacation in DE and my BIL found a $90 Cutco cheese knife for $0.50
@ybmuG Nice!
Do catshirts count? I may or may not have
wastedspent some monies on a dozen catshirts (unisex, and were in my size!) that originally came from CatLadyBox. Free cat hair included, of course.Also from the same trip, about 80 ft of USA made CAT 6 cabling, CMR rated. Under $20 in total, so that was a pretty good haul as some of the other thrift stores here want $6 for used t-shirts. It’s been months since I bothered with a Goodwill.
@narfcake Please tell me about the cat lady box.
@sammydog01 They’re a surprise box subscription service for cat lovers. Too hard to justify that since I’m less a cat person and just moreso a catshirts person. Also it’s $36-$40 a month.
(I still haven’t adopted another dog since Bella crossed the rainbow bridge several years ago.)
@narfcake @sammydog01 don’t tell you know who about CatLadyBox
I’ve been making out like a bandit this month. Bought alcohol at Goodwill!
@mossygreen I’m pretty sure that’s not legal in my state. What kind?
@sammydog01 Pretty sure it’s not legal anywhere! Small bottle of Limoncello they must have thought was a syrup or bubble bath or something.
@mossygreen @sammydog01 Oh, funny - is it any good?
@Kyeh @sammydog01 Only got it Monday, haven’t opened it yet. Seems to be from a real place in Italy and retails for 6 euros. I paid 99 cents.
@Kyeh @mossygreen The weekend is coming up, time to test it out and report back?
@Kyeh @mossygreen @sammydog01 and you all were worried about ME doing something dangerous?
@Kyeh @mossygreen @sammydog01 @unksol
I remember years ago when small single serve boxes of wine were starting to be a thing. They showed up at one of the local grocery stores that didn’t sell wine normally and were even available to buy on a Sunday! I’m convinced I thought they were regular juice boxes! Pretty sure that would have cost them a fortune if they had been busted for it
Not a thrift store, but I picked up an antique Singer sewing machine in a cabinet for free, from someone who’d bought it at a thrift store and changed his mind. I might regret it.
@Kyeh What are you going to do with it? It’s very cool.
@sammydog01 Well … first I have to figure out a place to put it (it’s still in my car!) And then theoretically I’ll see if it runs/fix it up/use it or sell it. But when this will happen is not entirely clear.
@Kyeh so very pretty. Hope it works
@Kyeh @tinamarie1974 My grandmother had one of those and gave it to me.
@Kyeh
I seen people turn those into pull out bars, I thought that would be cool.
@tinamarie1974 - Thanks! @Kidsandliz, do you still have it? @Star2236 - I’d rather have a sewing machine cabinet than a pull-out bar, myself. I’m kind of sad when I see antique furniture converted into modern stuff, but I guess it’s better than throwing it away.
@Kyeh @tinamarie1974 Is it electric or pedal powered? It’s so highly decorated you could use it just for show.
@sammydog01 @tinamarie1974 I’ve seen a cord so it’s electric. It could be decorative, and might end up that way. I have a Singer Featherweight that I actually use already.
@Kyeh @sammydog01 do you sew? Are you crafty?
@sammydog01 @tinamarie1974 I do some patchwork - I posted this in lisaviolet’s crafts thread a while back. I haven’t finished a quilt yet, though.
@Kyeh @tinamarie1974 Wow I’m impressed.
@Kyeh @sammydog01 oh those squares are lovely. It will be a beautiful quilt when you do assemble it.
@sammydog01 @tinamarie1974
Thank you!
@Kyeh I picked up one of these about 20 years ago because I needed a really strong sewing machine to make 18th century replica clothing for my reenacting hobby. Not many machines can sew through even two layers of the thick, dense wool used in soldier’s uniforms. Then I moved, had no room for it, sold it, and have owned tabletop machines from the 80s and 90s ever since. I should have been doing more hand sewing anyway…
@ItalianScallion Cool! I don’t think this is one of the heavy duty ones though.
@Kyeh You might be surprised. These are entirely made from metal so they can handle more than you might think! (Mine was from the mid 1940s, I think.)
@ItalianScallion Well, maybe - Singer made a lot of different models. I probably won’t be sewing heavy fabrics anyway, but good to know.
@ItalianScallion @Kyeh
our son used a similar one for his renfest and cosplay stuff when he lived at home. It was great for sewing thick canvas/denim and even leather on occasion.
Goodwills around here mostly have crap, but sometimes I’ve found some hard to find books and videos; picked up the one Alton Brown Good Eats cookbook I didn’t have, and another of the released DVDs that had a favorite episode on it. But otherwise? Meh.
@duodec Most of my stuff comes from church thrift stores. I don’t think they’re as good at researching prices and seem to have nice things. Also Goodwill has an online store, they probably put the valuable things up there. I can’t believe how cheap fine china is these days, I guess no one under 50 wants it.
@sammydog01 Thats what we found. China is not in favor for wedding registries any more either.
My wife was the executor for the estate of a dear friend of hers, and that person’s inherited-from-her-Grandmother china (complete 10-place Noritake set in pristine condition) was not wanted by any of her family, had marginal value on Ebay or Etsy, and even the specialists who sell pieces at craft shows and swap meets (to people looking to complete sets, which seems to be the only real demand) offered a pittance because they have lots of stock.
Its sad but most people no longer do fancy dining at home, or expect to bring out the china and silverware for family gatherings.
@duodec @sammydog01 It’s weird, though, because sometimes they have really interesting stuff you’d think they’d pull for the website. Same day I got the Limoncello, I bought a grab bag of knickknacks that included 3 1940 Disney Pinocchio figurines. They’re not particularly valuable, as they’re pretty beaten up, but the bag was $2.99.
@duodec I have a full set of china and silverware but the only porcelain I use is from calamityware. I did the Sunday fancy dinner thing for a while but no one seemed to care. I’ve been debating buying cheap stuff to fancy up my daily meals.
@duodec @sammydog01 I bought a batch of Corelle at a nearby outlet. It can’t be killed, and I think looks quite fine.
@romellex @sammydog01 We have the plain white Corelle for normal use, but we kept our Christmas Corelle for the season. Almost always just the two of us but it makes the meals feel special.
@duodec @romellex @sammydog01 I have the plain white Corelle too. I love how light it is (I used to have heavy stoneware plates) and how thin so you can stack a lot of it in a small space.
@duodec @sammydog01 I love calamityware!
I got a Cuisinart Pizzelle maker for $4. Never-used Williams Sonoma kitchen torch $3. 2 identical pairs of jeans that fit perfectly for #3 ea.
@KNmeh7 All enviable finds!
@KNmeh7 @Kyeh Jeans that fit? Absolute score.
I found a bronze crucifix with a Buddha in the center at a local Goodwill. It is a Japanese artifact from the Kakure Kirishitan movement during the Edo period. I was able to find one other example in a missionary museum in Paris. I don’t think that it is especially valuable but it is very cool. I paid $4 for it.
@RschDev Maybe more valuable than you think?!?
https://www.woolleyandwallis.co.uk/departments/japanese-korean-art/jp121119/view-lot/267/
I have sent 8 boxes and 6 bags of stuff to goodwill… I think I am the winner!!
@mikibell
Right. I’ve been sending stuff out lately too.
@mikibell @Star2236 I have stuff in boxes waiting to go. Does that count?
@mikibell @Star2236 @yakkoTDI I keep taking stuff to goodwill and buying stuff at the church store. I think I’m at a net negative amount of stuff but need to pack another carload soon.
@mikibell @sammydog01 @Star2236 @yakkoTDI So you’re really just making contributions to the church AND Goodwill; so charitable of you!
@mikibell @sammydog01 @yakkoTDI
At least it’s to the church store so you know for sure it goes to a good place. I like shopping and donating to the church store.
@mikibell We do a charity drop off run every couple of months, almost always to Goodwill. We’re going to move when we retire and this is early purging.
Of course I keep buying stuff… but I think we’re still net reducing a bit.
I bought a used plant at a local thrift store. It was $1 and seems to have come with bonus plants? Let’s all take a minute to enjoy it while it’s still green.
The bunny lamp is pretty awesome. Maybe someday I’ll have such luck.
FOOLS! TOOLS! JEWELS! AWESOME!
@pepper114 Ok…it has to be said… “Feed Me Seymore!!”
@pepper114 @tohar1 I wish my place had used plants. Snake plants are really hard to kill unless you love (water) them too much. Also
/giphy hi
@sammydog01 @tohar1 Hi Sammy! I would love to bring you along to this thrift store. It’s a bit higher end, but the Amish frequent it and the prices are low. If you need a bonnet they’ll have one. I’ve seen vegetable plants and a lot of spider plants there. I think a local hobbiest donates the plants.
@pepper114 I hope you’ll come back and show us what the little seedlings turn out to be!
@Kyeh Well, they’re either invisible or dead. Look @sammydog01 it’s still alive!
@pepper114 @sammydog01 Aww, too bad the seedlings didn’t make it, but the plant looks great!
I once picked up a give-away amaryllis plant someone left in the curb. The amaryllis didn’t make it but there was a mystery plant in there too; it turned out to be a tiny chokecherry which is still alive.
@Kyeh @pepper114 Watering enough for the seedlings would have killed the snake plant, and it’s a really nice snake plant.
/giphy congrats!
@Kyeh @pepper114 It’s a Penguin so I’m leaving it. Stupid giphy.
@pepper114 @sammydog01 Yeah, true; I have a couple of snake plants and they probably get watered once every couple of weeks at most.
Another thing that seems to live forever without water is aloe vera.
@Kyeh @sammydog01 I’m getting over a cold, and I still feel a bit fuzzy. For a minute, I thought it was May instead of February. That was the best minute of my day. Also, Happy Valentine’s Day!
@pepper114 @sammydog01 Happy Valentine’s Day to you!
@pepper114 @sammydog01 @kyeh
I feel certain I’m posting this wrong, but here we go. I got it friends. Maybe that’s what it needed.
@Kyeh @pepper114 Look like it got some dwarf friends. They should be happy together! I hope your pot has drainage, I managed to rot a bunch of these guys by watering like I would any other plant. I took the leaves that fell off and propagated then and now I have too many.
@Kyeh @pepper114 Check out the adorable baby that’s popped up. I guess I should put it in dirt.
@pepper114 Wow, it’s looking great!
@sammydog01 That’s really cute - I never knew the baby would grow that way.
I have some sort of mystery cactus that I dropped and leaf bits broke off, so I stuck them in dirt as an experiment, and they’re doing well. It’s related to Christmas & Easter cacti, I think, but the main plant has never bloomed so I don’t know.
@pepper114 @sammydog01
@yakkoTDI, can you identify it?
@Kyeh @pepper114 @yakkoTDI Did it look anything like this?
It looks pretty happy, congrats!
@Kyeh @pepper114 @sammydog01 I am not really good with the identification. The cactus or succulent subs on Reddit can be helpful for ID.
@Kyeh As for your one plant that has never bloomed I have found that all mine that bloom usually take at least 2 years before the first time. I did have one that didn’t bloom for almost 7 years. The funny part was that two of the parts that got propagated from it bloomed first. The parent plant didn’t bloom until I gave it to a friend because it got too tall for my condo.
@pepper114 @sammydog01 - Yours is cooler, my parent plant doesn’t have those neat zigzag leaves; they’re just straight (edit: not straight, but symmetrically scalloped.)
@yakkoTDI - I think I’ve had the parent plant for over 10 years; maybe it’s root bound or something but it’s so stickery I don’t want to handle it. Maybe these offspring will bloom one day!
@Kyeh @pepper114 @yakkoTDI I started buying plants a couple of years ago (and when I start something I go overboard, especially if they come in the clearance section). I know very little but one of the plant types I’m having fun with are epiphyllums. They have flat leaves like the zig zag one in the photo but get really weird new growth sometimes, that one has a weird not flat thing in the middle with stickers on it.
So I don’t know but you might look up epiphyllum and see if that’s what you have? Most of them have scalloped edges. They are supposed to have beautiful big flowers but I’m not expecting mine to flower.
@Kyeh @sammydog01 @yakkoTDI It took a long time before my ChriEasThankRiteAid cactus bloomed. I think grow lights on a timer made the difference.
@pepper114 @yakkoTDI
@sammydog01 I think you’re right that it’s an epiphyllum, and now you’ve inspired me to take better care of it. I’ve had it in my garage, next to a sliding glass door where it gets lots of sun, but I don’t water it often so it looks kind of sad.
@Kyeh I have some that look like that! They’re jungle cacti, I bet it perks up with regular watering.
@pepper114 I have a bunch of Thanksgiving cactuses from Food Lion. They were a dollar. My Easter clearance ones didn’t flower, I guess I need to look up what to do for next year. I bought so many…. Or I could throw them out.
@pepper114 @sammydog01 Or you could offer them for free on Nextdoor or Facebook if you have them - I notice that on Nextdoor free plants go fast.
Now I really want to get mine to bloom!
I came across an older Wolf Designs automatic watch winder not too long ago. It was insane, they wanted $70, the PU leather is scratched and peeling in little spots and there was no power adapter. It takes 2 D batteries so not easy to even verify it worked.
The next time I went by there a few weeks later it was still there. It happened to be half price week for its tag color. I was too tempted as they are supposed to be top end winders, so I brought some D batteries to test it and wore my heaviest watch. Dammit if it didn’t work, and was silent. So I caved and at $35 bought one of these: https://www.amazon.com/WOLF-Heritage-Automatic-Watch-Winder/dp/B0055OCUR2
It turns out they are regarded as top end winders but they are really built as cheap and shittily as possible. Yet somehow they run silently and run well. Right now I use it as is to exercise my watches, but I’ve been debating whether to sell it as is, redo the leather cover on it and convert it to lithium batteries and USB-C charging and use it, or do that conversion and sell it.
The last time I went by there there was this meter in the case by the register barely peeking out of its pouch. I thought it was a multimeter but it turned out to be this light meter. https://www.amazon.com/Extech-LT300-Light-Meter/dp/B000NI69ZY/
A steal at $14.99. One day when I get around to it I can tell you if these light therapy lights are really 10,000 lux:
@djslack Dang, your thrift store is a lot classier than the ones around here!
A bathroom vent fan, NIB.
https://www.amazon.com/Homewerks-Worldwide-7141-80-Integrated-Ventilation/dp/B07X3Y6B1V
A vintage Bostitch stapler, “Made in the United States of America”. I was guessing 1950’s, but apparently I was wrong.
http://munk.org/typecast/2018/01/31/stapler-of-the-week-1936-bostitch-b5/
Just under $10 for both.
Does PB&J taste better on Noritake or Limoges?
@sammydog01 Ooo, I love the Limoge one! I think Noritake for the PB&J, and Limoge for a BLT.
@Kyeh If you lived here you could have your very own 1940’s French Chateau Limoge plate with 22k gold filigree for two dollars. It was the most expensive of the bunch. I like the horse.
@sammydog01 It’s wonderful! I like the landscape too.
The tag on the back states it was made by a church quilting group for sick children. While it was sad to see the whomever was give this gave it up unused (fabric was still slightly stiff) in the end I was the winner with this throw sized handmade quilt. There is another column of the flowers and the 3 color edging goes all the way around. My photo isn’t the best but the floor needs vacuumed and I don’t want to lay it out on the floor to photo again, nor on the bed covered in cat hair.
Someone on here makes quilts. I can’t remember whom. @Star2236? @kyeh? or was it someone else? (I can’t find the thread where I saw a quilt someone was making).
@Kidsandliz
@tinamarie1974 Yes I love it too. I can’t believe how lucky I was.
@Kidsandliz @tinamarie1974
Not me, I wish I was that talented.
@Kidsandliz @tinamarie1974 I do some patchwork, but I still haven’t completed an actual quilt yet! @Star2236, you do some other crafts, right? I can’t remember exactly what but I remember you were making things for a craft fair?
@Kidsandliz @Kyeh @tinamarie1974
Yeah I do crafts for kids Santa shops for the holidays. I also do a lot of other stuff. I’m addicted to Pinterest. I love making wreaths for the holidays (not the kind with the mesh but more outside the box thinking and or rustic). I used to work with clay a lot, I have a gift cert to take a class for wheel throwing, all my stuff before was hand building, I love glass but haven’t soldered in years, I need a refresher course. I love making stepping stones and wind chimes from cut glass and birdhouses or garden stones filled with grout. And really up-cycling old stuff to have new cool purposes. I dabble in a lot. Like I said Pinterest addicted.
I really want to refinish our coffee table. It used to be a square table but then the legs were cut off. It needs to striped down, sanded and restrained. I’ve never had constant time on my hands like I do now but i also have a spare car sitting in my garage taking up. We really need a shed built in our backyard to house all of the lawn care items so I could have somewhere to work on something like the coffee table or something else big that I don’t want fumes inside the house in the winter.
@Kidsandliz @Star2236 @tinamarie1974 Very cool! Maybe if you can find the energy, immersing yourself in creative projects will help you with the sadness and loss you’re experiencing. It sounds like you have a lot of great ideas.
@Kidsandliz @Star2236 @tinamarie1974 Maybe you can use a bunch of Trakrs to make things like these?
@Kidsandliz @Kyeh @tinamarie1974
I think it’s gonna be a little while before I get back into any of that stuff. I just have motivation and I’m really anxious to the point I can’t even shower.
@Kidsandliz @Star2236 @tinamarie1974
I’m sorry; I know it’s going to be a while. But one of these days, I hope!
Best kitchen find: a made in France all-metal top of the line mandoline slicer for something like $20, never been used.
Best electronics find (I thought): an original 1947 model Hallicrafters S-40 shortwave receiver. I knew it had a deafening 60Hz hum and thought if I replaced the filter capacitors, I’d be all set. Nope. Then smoke started coming out. It’s been in the to-fix/to-finish-making pile of ham radio stuff for a year now.
@ItalianScallion I just grabbed an oxo good grips mandoline new in an open box for $6. It’s not vintage or all metal but it looks nice and ergonomic and probably still every bit as dangerous (but it included a kevlar glove).
I’ve been raiding the local thrift stores for more skirts that have pockets and belt loops. I’ve been finding more skorts than skirts, but a few minutes with some scissors can excise that entirely, or a few more minutes with scissors and a serger can turn them into lined skirts, which can be just as useful. I also found a denim romper that I can easily convert to a dress. And an almost scandalously short leather-look cargo miniskirt in dark steel-grey which was just so silly that I had to grab it. (And I know exactly where I will wear it.)
Went to Goodwill and found two unused (but not in original packaging) sets of the Wilton Looney Tunes cookie cutters from 1978 for 99 cents apiece. I grabbed them both and when I held one up to show my mother her whole body snapped to attention because she lost her set in our 2017 flood.
@mossygreen Congratulations! Will you show us if you make cookies?
@Kyeh Maybe
@mossygreen Okay
@Kyeh @mossygreen I DEMAND COOKIE PHOTOS.
@Kyeh @mossygreen @sammydog01
COOKIE!! COOKIE!! COOKIE!! COOKIE!!
Oh my gosh! My best hauls were industrial fans lmao, like the kind for drying industrial paint, we were very specific sleepers… Grocery Outlet has smoked Gouda again
@DictatorChops Man, I wish we had Grocery Outlet in Illinois, they have the most amazing laurel olive oil soap (at least, they did–I haven’t been to one since 2019).
These two massive couches which apparently came from the google head offices when they remodeled somewhat recently. They were brand new and extremely high quality. I think we paid $300 for the pair and then paid them $100 to deliver it. Such a great deal. In fact we’ve made so many furniture purchases there because they always have amazing finds, if you’re patient.
I’m going to build a crazy console table to go behind them once my shop is finished.