Distraction Tactic #5: Retail Therapy

I am having the most absolutely fabulous-est and marvellous time on my husband-y holiday!  Here is a little post (one I made earlier!) to keep you distracted until I come home and tell you all about my adventure!

Nothing like shopping for cheering the soul!  I have recently had a bit of a windfall of vintage bargains which is very exciting, and also just as well otherwise retail therapy can get rather pricey...

I found this gorgeous jug in a charity shop, for £1.  At that price it couldn't not be purchased, plus is looked very sad in the shop and now looks very happy on my shelf.  Very sensibly I got rid of a slightly less lovely jug, so there are still the same number of jugs in the house (which equals one happy husband), and more importantly, they still all fit on the jug-shelf.

Then a few days later I found this fabulously fat little gravy jug which has replaced the nasty chunky one I already had.  Again, an un-turn-down-able bargain.

I saw (drooled over) this teetering pile of pretty china in a charity shop aages ago, but it was more expensive than I wanted to pay and I thought I didn't really need it.

I walked past it a week later and again a week after that.  Then two weeks after that I saw that it was still there and that the price had been reduced...yet still my resolve held with almost superhuman willpower.

Then when it was still there almost two months since I had first seen it, I cracked.  It was obviously meant for me; if after all that time no one else had bought it and I just happened to keep seeing it, it must be because I was destined to buy it.  I offered a price for the lot to the till-lady, who jumped at the opportunity to get rid of all the fragile teetery china that had been cluttering up her shop for such a long time, and lo, it was mine!

And it's so pretty!  The discounted price I paid was satisfyingly bargain-y, but also compensated for several cracked and chipped pieces which have gone into the mosaic box.  Again I swapped out some of the not-so-nice china from the cupboard and replaced it with my new, beautiful, blue and white collection.  I love the scalloped edges on the plates.

Then I was just footling about on Ebay and came across a very bargain-y box of vintage baking tins.  I have been looking for a few things to replace the cheapy teflon ones I have, because I hate it when the coating starts peeling off, and there just happened to be what I needed in the box!

My friend was looking for a few things too so I did some frantic bidding, won the box and we shared the lovely non-peely items between us.

This goes perfectly with my other patty tins.

My rubbishy tins went to the charity shop, my lovely new tins went in the cupboard and I'm feeling very therapy-ised!