To be honest, I’ve been very choosy lately about what I decide to collect. I wouldn’t consider myself a hoarder, but I certainly don’t want to be storing tons of collectibles in my apartment! So I pass up items sometimes just because they’re just a hassle.
That being said, the selection at the thrifts has definitely been in a bit of a lull lately. Less people cleaning out their homes this time of year, I suppose! Some days I’ll hit a thrift or two and really not find anything but garbage. But even that garbage is sometimes laugh-inducing. I really enjoy taking a covert photo with my phone of anything just too weird. Here’s a selection of the oddities over the last few weeks.
This is a children’s picture book entitled “My Dad, John McCain.” Because, why hit the ground running and start introducing partisan politics to your kids before they can even read. Seriously, it wouldn’t have mattered if this had been an Obama book (and I’ve seen lots of kids books about Obama!), can we just cool it with the elementary school age political books? On to the next find…
So, its a can cozy with the lyrics to The Beatles’ hit “Revolution.” Fine. But then the URL of a Mortgage Company is printed underneath. I’m sure John Lennon is rolling in his grave knowing his song has been co-opted by mortgage brokers. We, as in HUMANITY, are doomed. Next!
Words cannot describe how large this Mountain Dew mug was. I mean, it made some of the cookie jars look small by comparison. Bigger than the biggest BIG GULP, this mug is probably double your daily 2000 calorie diet, all wrapped up a high fructose beverage delight. And people wonder why Americans are so fat? True, you wouldn’t HAVE to fill it with Mountain Dew, but its certainly implied…
Oh my god these were so weird. When you love denim so much that you need a jeans-motif lemonade serving set. Terrifying. But not more terrifying than this:
Eew. The lighting is so soft in that photo– its like someone smeared Vaseline on the lens. I can only imagine what the inside was like, but it was still sealed. But the outside picture still haunts me.
This is the kind of stuff I have to dig through to find the vintage treasures. Jealous?
