Thrift Share Monday ~ Buying Books At Library Sales

This weekend was a beautiful days. Sunny but cool on Friday, Saturday was rainy but I was going back to the Library for more books so who cared.
 There was  Friends of the Library sale that we went to twice. The prices were fantastic and we found bag fulls of books to resell on eBay in book lots.
I bought 10 L Ron Hubbard hard covers  and have them up for auction and have a bid all ready.

Hubby bid and won some great vintage books. Two are of the writings of Thomas Jefferson. These books   are from the early 1800s and were compiled by Thomas Jefferson Randall who was a relative.

I love books and book sales. After owning a used bookstore for over 15 years we are in our glory as we hunt for items to resell. They could be old like the ones my hubby found or just light mysteries that I bought to resell.

I hope that your week is wonderful and that you find time to stop at used bookstore and just look at the beauty of books in print. There is nothing like the feel and smell of used books.
 I know the kindle is popular and you can down load tons of books .... BUT it is not the same to a true book lover.
Earlier this week we had stopped in to a small shop and the owner is a book lover of early Americana. You could just see the JOY of the love of books as he shared some of his stories.

Thanks for stopping by.. Grace

Monday Menu Plan 5/4/11

One day late for my Monday Menu Plan. This week will once again be a quick easy week with trying to basically use items we have in the house already and needing to just buy a few items.

Last night we went to a genealogy meeting so we had a quick meal at McDonalds.

On the menu for the rest of the week is
Home made Macaroni and Cheese
Meat Balls and Gravy with mash potatoes and vegetable
Grilled Cheese sandwich with tomato sandwich
Spaghetti with meat Balls and garlic bread
left overs
Sunday with my sons for Mother Day get together
I am sharing this over at organizing junkie .. check out what others are eating this week.

I hope that you have a wonderful week.
Thanks for stopping by... lets keep saving together.. Grace

MENU PLAN MONDAY 4/25/11

Menu plan monday is one of my favorite posts of the week. I love to plan what we will eat for the week. Makes the rest of the week go smoother. Of course I am flexible and if things happen during the week every thing can change a little.

For this week I have been craving Beef and Green Chili Enchildas so we will start with that today. Left overs will be on Wednesday since we have a family get together on that day during the supper hour. We always go out to lunch on Friday so for that night it is easy just some soup and crackers for me and hubby will add a sandwich.

Beef and Green Chili Enchildas with refried beans
Barb b Que meat balls with potatoes and vegetables
Left over Enchildas and beans
Ham and Scallopped Potatoes and vegetable
Easy dinner soup and sandwiches
Spaghetti and meat balls with garlic bead
Sunday night buffet eating any left overs

I am sharing this over at organizing junkie.. take a peek to what others are cooking.

Hope that you all have a great week. Thanks for stopping by... Lets keep saving together.. Grace

Tip For The Day Display Books and Collectibles With Style

Tip for the day.. rather than just putting your books on your shelf leave some space at the end and use a book end to hold up.. Then place a collectible or photo in that empty space.
Maybe lay some larger books flat and then place a collectible on top of the books.

Show off not only your books but also your collectibles.

Thanks for stopping by.. Grace

Menu Plan Monday 4/18/11

Menu Plan Monday .. this week will be simple with money still tight because of tax time. Simple is just fine with us. We are blessed to have a home, food in our tummys and family to love us.

Hubby's Rich Burgers , beans and chips.. we had this last night and I still had a $1.00 coupon to use on hamburger so that we great

Tomato soup and Grilled Cheese Sandwiches and a few chips

Left over of hubby's Rich Burgers, left over beans

Meatballs in gravy with mash potatoes and green beans

Macaroni Cheese homemade, hot dogs

Left over what ever

Easter Sunday to be decided

I will be sharing this at Menu Plan Monday

I hope that next week to get back to trying new recipes every week.
Thanks for stopping by.. lets keep saving together.. Grace

Thrift Share Monday 4/18/11 Church Spiral Cook Books Found

Well this week went fast for us, I feel I was just sharing about finding the vintage disney material and roly poly glasses and it is another week to share what I found this week.
I am happy to share that both the Disney material sold and is going to Japan and the roly poly glasses sold, plus my Barbie dolls for parts even sold first time out. So we had a good weekend on eBay.

This week was pretty quiet and and I did not find much. I found some books to resell on eBay or Amazon and some more church cook books to sell on eBay.

I am also going through the boxes of vintage jewelry that I have to resell on eBay.
Hope that all of you have a good week on your searches of thrift stores.
I will be sharing this at thrift share Monday.. Grace

Estate Sales ... Searching For Treasures DISNEY FABRIC FOUND

If you have read this blog or my other blog you already know hubby and I suppliment our income by searching for items to resell.
While we mainly look for books we also will look around an estate sale or thrift store just in case some thing catches our interest.

Recently I had read about roly poly glasses by Dorothy Thorpe being featured on Mad Men and that they were desireable on eBay. I had never heard about them but that fact stuck in my head and sure enough I found 2 that look like them at a thrift store.
Now I only have two and 6 or 8 would be more desireable BUT these would be a good addition to a collection or the start of a collection.  I have been trying to find out how you can tell a true Thorpe and a knock off from that time period apart. 
Everyone has there own ideas so I have just listed them with Mad Men in the title and the fact that I do not know whether they are the orginial Dorthy Thorpes or not.

Another little tip I read about was vintage Disney fabric. I happened to mention this to my hubby and even if I think he does not really listen he does I guess. We went to a estate sale and in one bedroom he spotted this vintage Disney fabric and brought it to me. What a guy. I have it up for sale right now and it already has bids .. YEA.
And I finally got my vintage Barbies (good for parts or restored up for sale) I am hoping that they sell first time out.

Bottom line of this post is have fun searching, keep your eyes open and lets all share our little tips with each other of what is hot to sell.
Want to watch these items just go to my eBay link.

Thanks for stopping by... lets keep saving together.. Grace