Wandering trough a triftshop relaxes me.
It makes me think about my childhood by seeing things that we used to have in our home back then.
Sometimes I buy something, but just looking can be enough as well.
Today I found these two plates, we used to have the whole crockery set. You could get it by saving points you got by buying food from a special brand. When my mother died en we emptied the house most of it was gone because we children dropped it by accident.
Kringloops? I love this word! I will have to use it
From now on. I have a friend who loves to thrift shop with me, I can’t wait to tell her this new word!
I’ve been in the presence of Dutch speakers in the Caribbean, most notably Curaçao and Bonaire. Fun language to try to learn! If I can figure out how to upload photos effectively, I will share.
Beautiful, not easy to make I guess.
With things like that I always wonder how they do it. At first that ceramic vase that I’ll get but then making that basket fit tight around it?
For me I think Dutch sounds angular and blunt, if you understand what I mean.
If I would have chosen my birth language it would be Spanish ore Italian. That languages sounds really like music for my ears
I found these two old ladies a few months ago.
They are somewhere from 1920 ore 1930 I was told. When we visited my grandparents ages ago they where in the room where I slept.
These two are simulair like them.
I found out there was a whole set of those. All boy and girls dressed in Dutch traditional costume.
They remind me of the flat of my grandparents. Nice and cosy and filled with sigarette smoke
Yes, I googled on it but I do not remeber it right now. I wrote it up somewhere. It isn’t a real painting though (I wish! ). But something people bougt as a souvenir back in the old days I read somewhere. People collected them because of the many different trational costumes it shows. There are at least 14 of them to collect.
Found a silverplated dish to put the stone tealightholders on
The green old Chinese ginger jar I found in a triftshop earlier. We use it for the burned matches now.
I love thrift shops! That’s how I decorated my whole apartment when I moved in bc I didn’t have much of a budget. I’ve stumbled upon some great finds. The best was the same pair of Sorel boots that I payed $200, in my big size 10, for only $10! Now I have 2 pairs I think the coolest thing I ever got from a Goodwill was this, which I didn’t buy but got as change. It’s 90 years old!
Wow! And you got it as change! Unfortunally in the Netherlands we changed our valuta in the year 2000 from gulden into euro. So here’s no opportunity to find old money as pocket change.
But I kept some old coins to remember it. I still call the 10 euro cent a “dubbeltje” and the 5 cent a “stuiver” sometimes Young people do not know what hell I’m talking about
Yeah it’s funny. I got a $20 from 1994 out of an ATM and a girl at work asked it I had change for a $50. She saw it and said “why does it look like that?!”. She was born in 2004
I think the coolest thing I ever got from a Goodwill was this, which I didn’t buy but got as change. It’s 90 years old!
Unfortunally in the Netherlands we changed our valuta in the year 2000 from gulden into euro. So here’s no opportunity to find old money as pocket change.
