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SPCA Thrift Find

Locals: Huge Furniture Sale at SPCA Thrift

February 18, 2010

There’s a huge new donation of new or almost new furniture at the SPCA Thrift over the week, (as you can see some of the chairs are still wrapped), and office desk too. If you’re looking for stuff for your home office there’re some great deals to be found – I’m seeing the chairs in [...]

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SPCA Thrift Store Find: Porcelain Collector Plate – Dream of Red Chamber

January 27, 2010
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This month’s thrift find is the limited edition Imperial Jing De Zhen/Ching-te Chen (景德镇) porcelain collector plate, the first plate, “Pao-Chai” (寶釵) (literally Precious hair pin) is the name of one of the main female character from the classical romantic novel, Dream of Red Chamber (红楼梦). By Master Artisan Zhao Huimin (赵惠民). Exquisitely hand-drawn, from [...]

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Thrift Find: Puma Del Mundu LS Womens Shoes: $5

December 29, 2009
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Puma Del Mundu LS in black with hot pink strip, retails for $78 on Zappos. Cool & stylish! Discontinued, like soccer cleats but designed for street use. Maybe worn a couple times. Got it at the Yolo County SPCA Thrift Store for *drum roll* $5.
Buying shoes are thrift store is kinda hit or miss – [...]

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Locals: SPCA adoption fee wavied/reduced through 12/30, Santa Apparence

December 15, 2009

The Sacramento SPCA is doing a Home for the Holidays campaign, where adoption fees on dogs, kittens and small animals have been reduced by half, and the adoption fee for cats one year-of-age and older will be waived through December 30. Rabbits are spayed or neutered before going home, and all cat and dog [...]

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Thrift Find: Santa Fe Diesel Model Train Set for $5

December 1, 2009
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Lucky day – got a Life-Like brand Santa Fe Diesel model train set at the SPCA thrift for of course a bargain price – $5, include locomotives, box cars, power pack, buildings and more. A similar set without the buildings is $60 new. This set looks barely used.
It’s a leap of faith to get something [...]

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Thrift Find: Pottery Barn Kids Anywhere Chair for $3.50

November 15, 2009
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The PBK Anywhere Chair sells for around $150 with slip cover. When I saw this outside the SPCA thrift I know that’s the chair since I’ve been looking for in on craigslist. A good wash later and it’s good to go! This is the oversized version.
The other day I saw the popular egg-shaped IKEA PS [...]

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Monthly Thrift Find – October 09

October 26, 2009
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A French Connection shirt; a Baggallini sling; from boutiques? No, they’re all from the little SPCA Thrift store in town, and none of the above are more than $6 a piece.
I’ll be doing regular posts on great finds from the store, so stay tuned! The store gets all of its stuff from donations – it’s [...]

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