🚀 From the bins!!!

This weekend’s estate finds. Tell me your favorites! I’m obsessed with all the shine 🤩

I thrift at least weekly to find MCM/vintage ceramics to use as cachepots because I have an embarrassingly massive plant collection and I am too poor to pay retail prices (seriously who can pay $25+ for a plant pot???). In my Midwest area, women loooooved ceramics (edit: 50+ years ago, but now those women have passed away and their children have donated their collections) and thrift stores here are full of MCM and vintage ceramics planters and cachepots of all themes and colorways for like $2.99 each.

I saw this kind of clumsily painted and questionably glittered pot at goodwill this morning, and something in my mind told me it was awesome underneath (TL;DR: IT WAS!!!!!)

I had isopropanol and acetone handy (edit: at home! Not at goodwill!) but I was hoping I could get the paint off without chemicals and tried the least destructive method first: an hour long soak in hot soapy water. It loosened it up and I was able to rub it all off with a toothbrush and a small wire brush. Looked like (edit: someone with terrible taste had applied) a coat of cheap blue acrylic paint and then a coat of cheap black acrylic and then finished it off with glitter. LOL I DEMAND TO KNOW WHO COMMISSIONED THIS!

I was not expecting it to look like this!!!! I'm not very familiar with jardiniére pots. I saw similar orange/white/gold jardiniére pots on Etsy but not this exact one.

I replanted a philo in it; don't worry fellow plant people...it's planted in a liner pot inside so it can be removed for watering.

Bonus pics are 2 vintage dogs and a chia Bob Ross that I thrifted this weekend. The dogs will be plant decorations on the shelves and I'm a Gen X kid that always wanted a chia pet and now I have Bob Ross!!

Some art is memorable but not collectible.

Scored this for $30–I see it retails for $600.

This model is from 2025 and it looks like it was never used. All parts came inside the box.

It’s also giving banana! Happy to find this, I love to thrift IKEA :)

All from my local goodwill outlet bins store, where most items are sold by weight: breakables (like glassware/planters/stoneware/shells) is 99 cents/lb, other hardgoods are $1.99/lb, and clothing items are $2.99/lb.

1) & 2) Cement statuary bust planter, cost: ~$4.50. Will gift to mom for her garden. For the first pic I placed a fake air plant (also a thrift find from earlier!) to show how it might look when mom eventually places a real plant in it.

3) & 4) Atlantic Mold Conch shell planter, cost: ~$2. Will also gift to mom for her garden collection. 2nd pic with my fake air plant to see how it’ll look with real plant later.

5) & 6) “Clay in Motion” Neher pottery signed hand warmer mug, cost: ~75 cents.

7) & 8) Signed Original Van Briggle Art pottery mini pitcher/vase, cost: ~50 cents.

9), 10), & 11) Polished cut stone trinket box, cost: ~25 cents, & Elizabeth Arden porcelain heart-shape trinket container, cost: ~50 cents.

12) Tiger Cowrie + Purple-top Tiger Cowrie shells, cost: ~75 cents.

13) & 14) Fox (or Wolf) Stirrup Cup, cost: ~$1.50. Only markings on it indicate it was a 3rd place award for some kind of event. Probably silver-plated and not pure silver, as there are no other markings.

15) & 16) E. O. Brody Co. Milk Glass compote vase, cost: ~$1.50.

17) Anchor Hocking mini glass cruet, cost: ~25 cents. Will be perfect vase for small flowers!

18) Patagonia trucker hat + unknown brand embroidered belt, cost: ~$3.

90s comme des garçons shirt for only $8 at Goodwill

Immediately grabbed - hard to find brands like these any more

Can’t wait to put some flowers in it to give him some hair

Was super excited to see these in the original box, they’re so cute! $8.49. When cleaning them I found the original receipt from 1995 in the box.

Found for $5, $4, and $3 NZ respectively

Found these Frye boots already broken in & in my size! These are before pics, idk why my lighting was so funky but last pic is the most accurate of their color.

A few months ago I spotted this pristine Henredon leather couch at a local Arc. I sat down and could tell it was something high-end by the plushness of the down-filled cushions and the support of the frame. I spent 20 minutes sitting there try to figure out where this could fit in my home.

Sadly, I couldn’t justify bringing her into my home full of small children. I know leather is durable and gets better with age and use, but I would have been devastated if one of my kids had taken a sharpie or ball point pen to this beauty.

I still think about her and pray she went somewhere where she’s loved and cherished. 😭

I paid 50 cents for this mug :). It gives me a good chuckle every time I see it so that makes it priceless to me! Interestingly the bottom says Japan. Also let me know if you get the joke bc it took me an embarrassingly long time and it was bothering me all day lol.

the chairs were 30 dollars a piece and are sooo comfortable to sit in

I've been wanting to start a patio garden for a while and I know it's late in the year to try but it was only 2 dollars!!! hoping to grow some herbs

the last thing was 150 and it's the perfect stand for my 29gal fish tank SUPER sturdy and so much shelving underneath for my supplies

the couch in the background was also thrifted from habitat for humanity a couple months back only 200 dollars for a 3 seater!!

not pictured: my his & his cups I found for 2 dollars a piece and 5 regular glass cups (they're in the dishwasher rn)

Adult bunnies participating in adult activities

Paid roughly $12 at the local thrift. Absolutely amazing condition, seems to be made in Central and Eastern Europe.

Not bad for $11-$12 😉😊

Just yesterday people went crazy over this