joono
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Interests: Brussel sprouts, alfalfa sprouts, bean sprouts
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Post by joono on Jul 28, 2018 1:45:40 GMT
I don't have one Sin. I meant when I was holding the beaded purse. I do have a couple of old purse frames that I never got around to doing anything with. One looks like brass and the other some other kind of metal. I'd love a celluloid or bakelite one but the urge to make anything out of them has long since passed.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 28, 2018 3:46:54 GMT
oh, sorry, i misunderstood. but the rub test also works for things like radios and clocks and picture frames and stuff, maybe it will help one of our other friends!  |
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Post by avatarcat on Aug 1, 2018 3:35:37 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Aug 1, 2018 19:39:08 GMT
ooo, i love that "greenman"!
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Post by figlet on Aug 2, 2018 0:56:23 GMT
Good finds, ava
Op shops here don't have much in the bric a brac section that's not mass produced.
I got a nice small Pyrex dish (US made) with a fluted edge recently, which would be an older style.
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Post by pennybanger on Aug 2, 2018 9:47:30 GMT
I've reached the stage where I'm downsizing rather than collecting. I have so much stuff in my cupboards that never gets used now.
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deb
Keating recalling Morrison passing around coal in QT calls him "ä fossil in a baseball cap""
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Post by deb on Aug 3, 2018 6:54:24 GMT
Penny, I don't even know what I've got in my cupboards
Yesterday at the local oppie I found a bottle of Christian Dior "Dune" for $5.00 , so I had to take that home. I rather like it too
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Post by Carmella on Aug 3, 2018 8:00:43 GMT
Bargain!
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kayoneuu1
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Interests: golf; grandkids; travel; food; sauvignon blanc; pinot gris ......
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Post by kayoneuu1 on Aug 3, 2018 8:41:30 GMT
I cleaned out my pantry today and threw out heaps of stuff. Does that count as decluttering?
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Post by figlet on Aug 3, 2018 9:04:43 GMT
Sort of  ... I donated some pasta and tinned goods from our pantry (unused, still got a long way to go before expiry date). That we were unlikely to use. Newish church run, op shop down the road has a collection basket for food to be given to those in need. It's very near Coles too, so easy to buy an item or two then drop it in there before going to the car. |
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joono
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Interests: Brussel sprouts, alfalfa sprouts, bean sprouts
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Post by joono on Aug 3, 2018 9:24:04 GMT
Great idea Figlet. They used to do food collections occasionally at Curves too. Excellent way to figure out that somethings in your pantry are about 5 years out of code.
I'm going to clean out my kitchen utensils drawer. Exciting I know. How did I collect all that stuff?
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Post by madara on Aug 12, 2018 5:54:31 GMT
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Post by pennybanger on Aug 12, 2018 6:11:44 GMT
Well we had an interesting morning. At about 10.30 we set off on the bikes to go for a coffee. About 3/4 of the way into town my back tyre started to go down. Mr Penny went back home and came back in the car with a pump. He pumped up the tyre and I managed to get about half way home before it went flat again. This time it refused to reinflate so he told me to take the car and he would wheel the bike the rest of the way home. I'd been home about 10 minutes when the neighbour's ute pulled into our drive with Mr P and the bike on board. They had been driving home from town and spotted him trudging along the bike path.
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Post by maggiemay on Aug 12, 2018 7:44:32 GMT
Penny, are you hinting that you are morbidly obese and the tyre suffered as a result?
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Post by pennybanger on Aug 12, 2018 11:05:14 GMT
Sshh! Stop giving out my PI.  |
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Post by Carmella on Oct 6, 2018 2:57:42 GMT
I actually went to an op shop this morning , been a fair while since i've been to one.
anyway i picked up a chamber pot a meakin , in a dusty pink and green with embossed leaves one it.
8.00 it wasn't chipped . very clean inside.
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Post by lyn on Oct 6, 2018 3:30:38 GMT
Good find Carmella - sounds lovely.
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Post by prim on Oct 6, 2018 3:38:08 GMT
Any chance of a photo Carmella? I have stopped collecting. I am now downsizing but I do have two matching chamber pots I bought about 50 years ago. No markings so I can't find a history. I have houseplants in them and they have crazed. I guess I didn't respect them enough.
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Post by Carmella on Oct 6, 2018 3:53:18 GMT
i would prim , but my camera is broken i've yet to replace it. plus i don't own a mobile phone . i hate the things. lol.
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Post by Carmella on Oct 6, 2018 3:55:55 GMT
i think that pot slipped through, it is like hens teeth finding anything like that in an op shop and the price as well.
. i'm not sure i will use it for anything apart from collecting dust. lol.
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Post by Carmella on Oct 6, 2018 5:14:06 GMT
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deb
Keating recalling Morrison passing around coal in QT calls him "ä fossil in a baseball cap""
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Post by deb on Oct 6, 2018 5:16:11 GMT
I actually went to an op shop this morning , been a fair while since i've been to one. anyway i picked up a chamber pot a meakin , in a dusty pink and green with embossed leaves one it. 8.00 it wasn't chipped . very clean inside. that sounds like a nice one Carmella.. I love pink and green together |
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Post by Carmella on Oct 6, 2018 5:17:46 GMT
I have 2 of these steins/mugs . but with different pictures on them.
i picked them up once in a box of stuff for 5.00
i had them valued just more so for curiosity. at that time which was 20 years ago they were only worth 20.00 each and i was told they were more used as a display in pubs than being drunk out of.
they are now over 100 years old.
that is not my pic btw.
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Post by Carmella on Oct 6, 2018 5:19:01 GMT
me too deb.
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deb
Keating recalling Morrison passing around coal in QT calls him "ä fossil in a baseball cap""
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Post by deb on Oct 6, 2018 5:19:31 GMT
have they got any makers marks on them??
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Post by Carmella on Oct 6, 2018 5:37:10 GMT
yes Crown Ducal
one says harmony and the other one says a short sport.
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Post by madara on Oct 6, 2018 5:37:49 GMT
Try Crown Ducal Carmella
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Post by madara on Oct 6, 2018 5:38:35 GMT
snap (i've seen one or 2 before )
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Post by madara on Oct 6, 2018 5:41:05 GMT
Bob Dean was a cartoonist for punch ? something like that .
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Post by Carmella on Oct 6, 2018 5:41:09 GMT
do you think there would of been a set madara.
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