Thrift shopping

Today, we decided to check out a few charity shops, just to see if we could find any cool pieces of furniture for our already quirky home – storage more specifically. As you can expect, a lot of useless items end up in these types of shops. Let’s face it; people donate this stuff for a reason! You wouldn’t give away your newest clothes, your nicest furniture, your MP3-stereo or your DVD-collection, would you?

At the same time, it is interesting to just walk around and just look at things – it is almost as if you’ve traveled back in time, to a time where a season of ‘Friends’ would in fact fill a whole shelf in your bookcase and your music was stored on cassette tapes or vinyl instead of on iPods and a time when the plastic laminate on your furniture was most likely water damaged due to you over watering your plants.

Sadly enough, it seems like most of the items in the stores we visited could be categorized as ‘Grandma’s house’, i.e. furniture and decorations most likely purchased/home made/knitted in the 50’s and 60’s but still in pristine condition. The items were probably donated to the shops by relatives when the elderly owner did not need these things any longer.

Needless to say, we did not find anything useful to buy. Instead, we pulled ourselves back to the 21st Century by going for a snack at Starbucks. After our coffee break, we went from one extreme to another by visiting more swanky furniture stores where we did find very nice storage units available to purchase - all of which we could definitely not afford. Ever.

Once again, we will have to rely on IKEA to save the day with its new, shiny, reasonably priced, flat packed Billy, Lack and Expedit series' of livingroom storage!