Monday Schmunday

Be aware posting your prized thrifted items on a community in Livejournal. Some person may just come and put a cloud over your sunny day! I had bought, what I thought, was a handmade sign and a handmade ceramic ewer and I used the word "handmade" to describe them.

WRONG.

"the sign looks like a standard silk screened souvenir from the 90s printed on thick particle board. the bar did exist at one point.

the ceramic thing looks like a ceramic pitcher from a mold.

am welcome to any photographic evidence that supports your claims that they're anything else."

Cue me going o.O What a d-bag. I responded that I didn't know the items were silkscreened and made from a mold.

"welcome to thrifting.

part of the learning process on the way to becoming a skillful and discerning thrifter is asking why the object is there in the store/garage sale in the first place.

ask yourself "would this make a good heirloom?" or "could i re-gift this upon somebody older than me and would they value it?" or "when i'm tired of this, or when the house is full of stuff like this, can i sell it on ebay?"

part of the reason that thrift stores are better than dollar stores is that they often (but not always) have items of quality - not made of plastic, not another tacky owl cookie jar (although i guess hipsters still buy those on ebay), something that if it broke, it was meant to be repaired and not discarded."

Again, cue me going o.O WTF? Let me say, I disagree with this users' "learning process" of thrifting. What I wanted to say was said by another user: "lol wow. i don't want to start anything but you sound like a snob and thrifting should not have to be taken so seriously."

I agree with this second user. Thrifting should be fun. Who cares about an item's resale value on Ebay? Who cares about regifting it? (Do people regift stuff? "Oh, this vase just doesn't work anymore, I'll give it to Lisa for Christmas!" Regifting is tacky, people!) Who cares about if it would make a good heirloom? If you have to ask yourself the above three questions, you are in the wrong store. You should be in an antique store (which would have items of higher quality and value) and not in a thrift store.

I think that's the last time I will actually post to that community. I will comment, but as far as posting? No way.