By Ole Martin Skaug

Vona runs the haberdashery section within a local opportunity shop. Today she convinced me to buy $6.50 of odd buttons and elastic. She tells good stories.

Me and Juliet Simms of Automatic Loveletter

The leaded glass front of a secondhand clothes shop.

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Pictures of the kimono and related items I bought from a tiny second-hand shop I found in Arashiyama, Kyoto.

I bought:

Black Haori (3000)

Pale Green Haori (1000)

White/Black Kimono (5000)

Green/Blue Kimono (2000)

Blue Rainbow Obi Set (2500)

White Tabi Socks (1000)

Red Cord Zori Shoes (1500)

There are expected minor imperfections, mostly on the insides along common sweat stain areas or a few possible sunburn spots. I believe they're all mainly silk though, and they're very well-made.

The obi is a premade-type, so I don't have to learn how to tie it! Thank god, otherwise I'd never wear these.

This piece was rolled up and tied when I bought it so I didn't find this fabric on the inside until I got it home and opened it up to wash it and found that it was a tied baby quilt sort of thing. Very heavy and stiff for a baby quilt so it doesn't look like it was ever used.

$2 for both (see here for details: theshoppingsherpa.blogspot.com/2008/03/second-hand-sunday...

So many books!

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More vintage furniture for my son's nursery.

Medium weight cotton print

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Well yesterday was interesting! Got an amazing sofa of Freecycle which was supposed to be a two seat sofa, kinda sure it's a three seat sofa. Well would you know old Manx Cottages don't fit modern sized things! Thank the lord our new neighbor Baz (seriously amazing guy) shown us how to take the window apart!! Guess who was the unlucky person who had to hold it up, yep me! Those windows are H.E.A.V.Y!!! Sofa looks amazing though, so many ideas on what to do with it, and I love love love the Mallard's Michael knows me well, I cannot wait till we have the fire on, the quilts on and the NFL on.

Jam (syltetøy) bowl from norwegian Stavanger Flint

We rescued the wooden cubby from the neighbor's trash and bought the sheets at the thrift store for 3 bucks.

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loved this when i was little. i bought it for a .25 and Miss. A loves it.

Franky visits Emmaus Glasgow.

Gulfport, Florida, USA

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OK, I cheated because I got this at Crossroads. But whatever - so good! And for only $16! And I had store credit! So really it was free!

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The Strand. NY bookshop of Kings

Like Pele Mele, a wide variety of secondhand books and magazines, with some English titles.

Manhattan.

fabulous second hand book shop. over 95 thousand books!

Victorian Silver Locket depicting a Chinoiserie scene within a picture border.

These were left in the old house my sister is renovating; being awesome, she sent them to me. I have three panels and no idea what I will do with them, but I love the print.

Last week I bought some new clothes in a lovely secondhand shop. :) I do not know what I could do without secondhands... These shops are mostly better than malls. I am able to find special clothes and I do not see my clothes on every people when I go out.