{"id":1114,"date":"2008-02-29T03:49:22","date_gmt":"2008-02-29T11:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slumberland.org\/wp\/2008\/02\/29\/todays-thrift-store-finds\/"},"modified":"2008-02-29T03:52:18","modified_gmt":"2008-02-29T11:52:18","slug":"todays-thrift-store-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slumberland.org\/wp\/2008\/02\/29\/todays-thrift-store-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Today’s thrift store finds"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jason and I visited Goodwill yesterday to browse for interesting stuff. I found a bag of vintage thread; the green ones are pictured here, but there were a lot more<\/a>. Almost all of them have old fashioned wooden spools, and many are unused. Some are silk thread, but most are cotton.<\/p>\n

I suppose that cutting down trees to make spools is not ideal, but on the other hand, it’s a lot more sound than using petroleum to make plastic ones that will never degrade. And these wooden ones seemed to have more reuse potential, too. When I was very young, my mom had some thread on wooden spools (I don’t know if it was already old even then), but ever since then all I have seen for sale is plastic. These are much nicer. Maybe bamboo could be used for spools somehow, which would be even more environmentally sound, and quite nice-looking too.<\/p>\n

I also found some tiki mugs<\/a>, a dashboard hula girl, a (faux-)vintage tin sign, and a couple of nice salwar kameez suits I am planning to resell since they don’t really fit me but are pretty nice.<\/p>\n

Jason got a Casio SK-5 sampling keyboard, one of those late ’80s toy keyboards. I had an SK-1 myself. I got it for Christmas in 1986. They are a lot of fun to goof around with.
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Jason and I visited Goodwill yesterday to browse for interesting stuff. I found a bag of vintage thread; the green ones are pictured here, but there were a lot more. Almost all of them have old fashioned wooden spools, and many are unused. Some are silk thread, but most are cotton. I suppose that cutting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[1,25],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3l1DW-hY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slumberland.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slumberland.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slumberland.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slumberland.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slumberland.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/slumberland.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slumberland.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slumberland.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slumberland.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}