My Best Thrifting Find. EVER!

This week I’d like to join in the Thrifty Treasure’s party hosted by Rhoda at Southern Hospitality.  If you love  great bargain stories, you absolutely must go by and visit Rhoda and all the other bloggers who are showing off their wonderful thrifting finds.

Many of you very lucky ladies are experts at finding lots of fabulous treasures at the thrift stores, garage sales and flea markets on a regular basis. 

Me…not so much.

One day, however, while browsing in my local Goodwill store, I spotted a little vintage lamp high up on a shelf.  It was covered in many layers of dust,  dirt and grime, as if it had been stored in someone’s attic or garage  for a long time before being donated.  It didn’t have a shade and some of the pink ceramic roses on it were chipped,  or missing altogether. 

Price:  $4.00. 

I picked it up…and put it down…picked it up… and put it down.  I continued to walk around the store looking at other items but I kept coming back to look at this little lamp again and again. 

Ultimately, I left the store without buying it.

Why? Because I didn’t really know where I was going to put it.

All the way home, a little voice in my head kept saying, “Turn around and go back to get that lamp!” 

Did I listen?

No. 

Why?  Because I didn’t really know where I was going to put it!!!

Huh?  What the heck is wrong with me that I had to think twice about spending $4.00?!  Do you do that too?  Probably not.

For the rest of the day, I kept thinking about that little lamp.

The next morning I woke up with that lamp STILL on my mind so I jumped in the car and prayed all the way to Goodwill that somebody else hadn’t already snatched it up…somebody with a lot more sense than me!

For once, Lady Luck smiled down on me because the lamp was sitting right where I had left it.  But I guess waiting one more day paid off because I also spotted a brand new shade that I hadn’t seen the day before.  It not only  fit this lamp perfectly but someone had applied pink rose trim around the edge!

It was meant to be.

Lamp shade price:  $3.00.

So, for a whopping $7.00, I got a cute vintage lamp with a whole lot of personality. 

Oh, and all those pre-purchase worries about where I was going to put it…

I had absolutely NO PROBLEM finding a place for it in my cottage style living room.

Yep, my best thrifting find.  EVER!