Featured Reader: Sharon, GA
Wednesday November 11, 2009
Name:
Sharon from Georgia
Forum Membername:
ed1claudia
Your Favorite Source for Bargains:
Thrift stores and the local auction house
Your Best Bargain of All Times:
My friend gave me her old - but still in great shape - bedroom suite. With updated linens, she didn't even recognize it when she came to visit. I also purchased a transferware plate at the auction house last week for $20, and it is worth at least $150. I have seen similar plates sell for $200-$300.
Most of our furniture is cast offs from family, given to my husband and I when the parents and in-laws were retiring and downsizing. It is all well made, older furniture…a leather couch, a beautiful dining room set, a 1940’s bedroom sit for the guest room. The best part is, it was all free!
I too have lots of old furniture but I would NEVER paint any of my wood. (Paint the molded plastic cheap stuff, not the old wood furniture) Refinishing takes a little more work but the end results are out of this world. I’ve had a number of relatives ask me why I have all the family heirlooms; its because no one wanted them when I took them. They looked old and scratched up, dirty and didn’t “fit” in anyone’s house. Now they’re beautiful and will be passed on to my children and grandchildren.