Tuesday, April 5, 2011

An Assortment of Impossible Things To Likely Never Happen, aka The Thrift Wish List

When you are scavenging the aisles of your favorite thrift, flea market or estate sale do you have a mission in mind? Do you have a specific set of needs or wants? Or is it all just hunting and gathering for a good price?
While it’s always nice to find a pleasant surprise, that certain something you never knew you’d want or even come across in your thrift travels, but it never hurts to have a list. Not just any list, mind you. THE list.

So here it is, my personal Thrift Wish List:

johnny_cash_sun_singles

Johnny Cash’s original Sun Studio recordings would be just awesome to thrift. I’ve seen the LP in record stores, at record collectors’ prices. Not the same, though.


Saddle

I could totally rock a pair of saddle shoes with little white socks. Too bad I have clown feet. No joke. I’m a size 11 wide, which makes shoe shopping a less than stellar experience. It also makes thrifting shoes in my size a distant possibility.

Still, secondhand saddle shoes…and while we’re at it, a pair of brown leather cowboy boots, definitely make The List.


Blythe Style

Blythe. I love her. At 12” high, this dainty fashionista would be the star of many a photo shoot. I’d shamelessly parade her around cities and suburbs, modeling all of the teeny, tiny clothes I would make for her. Seemingly available exclusively in Asia, these little dolls retail at $80 and above, plus the cost of international shipping. I could just kick myself for not buying one in Tokyo when I had the chance. Maybe, just maybe, one will magically appear at a Goodwill someday.


Vintage_Royal_Quiet_Deluxe_Manual_Blue_Typewriter

This exact Royal typewriter would be the centerpiece of my desk. While it wouldn’t necessarily work for blogging, I would make a point to clang away all hours of the night, working on what could only be considered “my masterpiece.”


MacBookPro

This, Mac Boook Pro, on the other hand, would greatly aid my efforts in the blogosphere. It would also mean that I could take my incredibly slow, uncooperative HP laptop to a field and smash it to bits with a baseball bat, Office Space style.


VW Minibus

And of course, "An Assortment of Impossible Things to Likely Never Happen" wouldn’t be complete without somehow finding and by some fateful turn affording a VW Minibus. I can picture it perfectly: Sitting there at the side of the road, in all of its gleaming vintage glory…an aging hippy holding a sign that says, “Dirt cheap and all for you, Jackie Jardine.”

And just think of all the people I can take on road trips and of all the incredibly kitschy things we would find and comfortably fit inside. Sigh.

Well, there we have it, folks. The Thrift Wish List. Notice how the ridiculousness grew from album to automobile in just easy five moves?

Dare to dream, I guess.

What about my fellow thrifters out there...Do any of you have high thrift ambitions? What must-have items top your Thrift Wish List?

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2 comments:

DFWgirliegirl Housewife said...

I have an ever growing and changing wish list. I have, however, found some sadle shoes in my size at Goodwill....and sending vibes out that you, too, will find some. They must be out there, right?

Tiffany

Jackie Jardine said...

Thanks, Tiffany. I think maybe size 11 saddle shoes is the least impossible item on my list, so hopefully they'll turn up someday!