The Thrift Shop Romantic

The last few days have been full of surprises for me. Things I've put away years ago, to decorate the blue bedroom my friend was using, ...

Those of us thrifty folks do ourselves a serious service by planning ahead. I knew there would come a day when the friend who was renting fr...

Spring! I tend to approach Spring like Tigger on a caffeine high-- I love it, and my enthusiasm cannot be contained. So it's not any won...

Now I know many of you who visit this site are veteran thrifters... garage sale mavens... and flea market officianados. You already know how...

We know birds fly south for the winter. And some butterflies, too. But there is an important migratory trend that scholars have not yet touc...

So you clicked the blog article link on the ThriftShopRomantic .Mac site-- just like you usually do and it took you... er, here. To Blogger....

I am not the biggest fan of orange. In high school, we were “the Tigers” and our colors were, yes, orange and black. This meant things like ...