Showing posts with label toys. Show all posts
Showing posts with label toys. Show all posts

Saturday, September 29, 2012

Sunday

 An assortment of things found at the op shop;



The tag had $7 on this 'must have' sweater, but I got it down to $5 simply because I showed the lady at the counter a couple of pulled threads.  When I got it home, I pulled in the threads with a fine crochet hook - looks as good as new!  Remember this tip when you are looking at sweaters.  ;)





This is one of those things that left me stumped as to why I bought it.  Possibly because it came in it's own cute metal tin?  Maybe because the husbeast is into everything that has to do with car racing??  Maybe it was both.  I snapped it up for $4.  I rarely see metal toy cars at the op shop... they are usually all plastic and almost destroyed by its previous (child) owner.







I did some research on this gold spoon some time ago, and I did find some on eBay going for some astronomical price, and some cheaper.  I'm guessing the cheaper ones are/were replicas, but I really don't know what category my falls under.  I like to think that I scored one worth a mint.  LOL.  I paid 50 cents for this elegant spoon.




A vintage Gerber baby silver plated spoon for 50 cents. 
Silver can be so difficult to photograph sometimes! 






And finally, I just had to have these very sweet marble ducks.  At least I think they are marble... and if not, they are polished rock.  Found these for $1 each.  They measure about 2 inches across.  :)






Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Wednesday

Random free toys.  Am I the only adult that loves toys?  I'd understand if I was deprived of them when I was a toddler, but I wasn't.  So what's the deal, I wonder ever so much?

First it's closed....


Now it's open....


Bunch O' Dinos...

 
Christmas jigsaw puzzle, with the box...



And one great big yellow bear!


Sunday, May 6, 2012

Monday

I can't for the life of me remember if I've already posted about this free yellow vase.  Never mind, I'll show it again.  


When I found this, I was perplexed as to why anybody would ditch a perfectly nice vase.  When I looked closer, it was plain to see why. 


What a big shame!  I kept it anyway and unless you turn it around, you don't know there is a heartbreaking chip on its base.   Without all the dust on it, it's still a nice piece.

On a different note....
I purchase some really lovely plates months ago from an op shop.  I will go more into the plates at a later stage.  For now, what I'd like to show is what I got WITH the plates for free.  


Plate holders, also called plate stands but I'm only showing you half of what I actually have.  Pretty exciting to a person that collects plates of course!  I had asked the lady at the counter if I purchased the plates, would she throw in the plate holders for free.  No doubt she said yes and I was very pleased.


And one more thing for today.....  

Free (breast cancer awareness) Avon Teddy!!!


Sunday, January 8, 2012

Monday

Monday, Monday.... so good to me.....  NOT.  

I dislike Mondays for no apparent reason.  Maybe it's society that has brainwashed me to think like that!


A boring assortment of free stuff today.  I'm guessing you can tell that I'm running out of interesting things to show you?   











Saturday, December 10, 2011

Sunday

I love finding stuff that I wouldn't normally buy for myself, and here they are.


 Probably some kind of Vegemite promo at some stage and surely once had vegemite in it;







Thinking of jazzing up my iphone;




Littlest Pet Shop care for me cat and it works just fine!  Today I found one slightly different on ebay going for around $25AU including postage, and one similar at Amazon for $30.








 
Beer, anyone?



Thursday, November 24, 2011

Friday

Well folks, I have Christmas covered AND entirely for free.  

If I was one of those people that celebrated 'Xmas' just for the holidays, presents, boozing it up, eating too much and generally parrrtaying, then I'd really be an ecstatic happy chappy.  But I'm not one of those people.  

I celebrates Christmas for it's real and true meaning and nothing more.   Still, here lays the paraphernalia and stuff....  





 



Here's me looking like a true hypocrite...




Yes, the cap was free too!

Monday, November 21, 2011

Tuesday

Randomness of freebies...


Hama beads... also called Perler beads.  There is a third square board but I failed to take a photo of it. The beads weigh a whopping 400g!





It always amazes me that people actually throw out sewing supplies.  Must be men, right?




An adorable piece of plastic sheeting, with cute fish no less.





A whole wrapped soap!?!  I feel cleaner already.   People must be giving up on washing with soap for some reason.





An HD tuner.  Hubby tested it out and it works just fine.






Lastly for today, a book that I'm looking forward to browsing very soon... Bailliere's Nurses' Dictionary, Seventeenth Edition and dated 1968.





Is it just me, or was the medical world a little more frightening back then?




I won't ask....