The "Trashy Diva" saying hi

Sat, 05 Jan 2008 19:42:15 GMT

hey everyone!!!! just wanted to introduce myself I have been on the boards a while even posted feedback!! I around here am known as the thrift queen or the trashy diva!! I have been thrifting and junking way before it became the thing to do!!!! my addiction started with 1 piece of furniture i found curbside i call it curb shopping my younger daughter calls it night time garage sailing!!!!when she was lil like 5 or so she would ask can we go nighttimme garage sailing mommy!!! the first thing i ever found was an old antique secretary desk/hutch my hubby wouldn't stop so i said well i guess i will take you home and go back i did!! and i got that hutch from thenon it spiraled i soon knew every neighborhood in my towns trash night i next found 2 old antique mirrors 1 real decorative style gold mirror and 1 baroque style gold mirror nothing wrong just out on the curb next came dressers antique ones on a lawn there were 4 guess how many i took?? right on all 4 painted white distressed and added glass knobs!!! my daughter got 2 i was made a craft one and 1 was made for me!!!! i thrift or curb shop for all the stuff i have started out when money was tight when i was a stay home mom for 8 years but then turned into a compulsion i can't stand to see good valueable things left out i will even pick up things to pass on or donate to the thrifts!!!!i got all my kids lil tikes play houses that way!!!! step 2 wagon i mean NOTHING wrong with this stuff!!!! i furnished our old 1810 farmhouse with all my finds!!!! people never do believe me when i tell em where i got it they always say noooo way!!!! i just laugh and smile!!!!let them believe what they want i also repurpose old chandoliers they kinds that sell for like huge amts at the stores!!!! i did 3 in our house that way!!!! i shop thrift for all my kids clothes all brand name for next to nothing i am told by the teachers they are the best dressed in school and i chuckle they have said at one point i must spend a fortune in clothes for daughter i chuckle and say nope thrift they are amazed all this at the thrift??? guess where they shop now?? thats right!!! i say reduce ,reuse ,and repurpose!!!!! thats my motto!!!! my hubby just shakes his head when i come home with this stuff i decorate old windows make hall trees outta them coat racks from old doors and benches from old bed frames!!!! i even got my mother who would never go to a thrift or garage sale to go and now she goes even more then i do!!!! where i live there are some good thrifts with pricy things in there for cheap!!! mennonite mcc thrifts in the amish community are the best sooo cheap!!!! my house is cottage/ shabby chic so it all fits wonderfully

just wanted to say hi and share if you ever wanna email me i am

KimmyLynn2u2@aol.com

kim

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