Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds

[dh66]

Found a couple of 45s at an estate sale this morning

 

[tonyb]

If I had the Roger Miller 45 I’d frame it.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

^^^^^^
I may at some point look into how birds might be attracted to it, then. A couple-three years ago a pair of robins built a nest atop that beam this thing is hanging from, but the squirrels had them moving on before the nest became active. So I suppose that in birdhouses as in human houses it’s all about location.

They are Purple Martin gourd houses.

 

[RBH]

They are Purple Martin gourd houses.

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My grandmother always had Martin houses on the farm.
It was a spring ritual to clean them and get them ready for use !

 

[Hurricane Jack]

My grandmother always had Martin houses on the farm.
It was a spring ritual to clean them and get them ready for use !

No one grows gourds anymore so the started making them out of clay & ceramics. Available at most home & garden centers.

 

[tonyb]

I looked into it. It seems that purple martins migrate through this region but they don’t set up housekeeping here. But other birds make use of this type of birdhouse. So, I dunno, maybe I’ll find a squirrel-proof way to hang it. But it’s already too late for it to see any use this year.

 

[RBH]

No one grows gourds anymore so the started making them out of clay & ceramics. Available at most home & garden centers.

This is the kind of Martin house my grandmother had.
There were three of them placed around her back yard.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

This is the kind of Martin house my grandmother had.
There were three of them placed around her back yard.

I’ve seen those too. Martins must like communal living.

 

[RBH]

I’ve seen those too. Martins must like communal living.

If my memory has not slipped, like my hair!!!
I seem to remember that when we would clean the house out, most if not all of the 'rooms' would have a nest in it.

 

[tonyb]

I‘m not a shot glass collector (hell, I don’t even drink) but it seems I have a collection of shot glasses, as I was reminded yesterday evening while taking out and washing the rarely used dishes and such that get relegated to the rear of the upper cabinets and collect whatever funk in the air that somehow manages to make its way past those cabinet doors. You know, the stuff you have to wash BEFORE using it.

Some of those glasses are kitschy souvenirs (“Wall Drug,” for instance, or “Elks Lodge #1292, Raymond, Washington“), some commemorate relatives’ weddings and some caught my eye at thrift stores and garage sales. Taking them down and running them through the dishwasher (gotta pour out the water collected in those little divots on the bottoms) and putting them back in the cabinet reminded me of how they came my way. And ain’t that the entire point of souvenirs?

 

[Hurricane Jack]

I‘m not a shot glass collector (hell, I don’t even drink) but it seems I have a collection of shot glasses, as I was reminded yesterday evening while taking out and washing the rarely used dishes and such that get relegated to the rear of the upper cabinets and collect whatever funk in the air that somehow manages to make its way past those cabinet doors. You know, the stuff you have to wash BEFORE using it.

Some of those glasses are kitschy souvenirs (“Wall Drug,” for instance, or “Elks Lodge #1292, Raymond, Washington“), some commemorate relatives’ weddings and some caught my eye at thrift stores and garage sales. Taking them down and running them through the dishwasher (gotta pour out the water collected in those little divots on the bottoms) and putting them back in the cabinet reminded me of how they came my way. And ain’t that the entire point of souvenirs?

The OP started this thread on shot glasses back in 2014. I reactivated & expanded it to include vintage whisky & beer glasses. Haven’t posted any in sometime now.

https://www.thefedoralounge.com/threads/vintage-shot-glasses.76278/