It’s not #thriftingthursday, it’s Saturday, but I just have to share about thrifting anyway. this post is all about my August thrifting hauls. I’m doing a happy dance here!! The Provo Deseret Industries opened again after over two months of remodeling, which lasted from the end of May to the middle of August. I did a lot of thrifting in June and July at other places and told myself I wouldn’t go thrifting again in August until the weekend of my wedding anniversary, which is August 17. Since then, I’ve been four times. Two times at the newly re-opened Provo DI, once at the Orem Savers, and once at the American Fork DI. So here’s what I got. I stuck to my commitment.

The two photos above and the one just below show my first haul of August, which was also my first trip to the Provo DI after it closed for remodeling in May. You would think that the floodgates of the Nile river had opened. So many people were there, looking for what we all thought was a pile of treasures that had accumulated in the warehouse during the remodel. On the Friday after the Monday that it opened I went looking for a flowing white skirt as part of celebrating my anniversary. I didn’t find it but instead find these fun little gems. A fun new bright floral top, above, and some other delightful goodies.

In the home decor section I found the sign about Christmas. It’s small so won’t be hard to fit into one of my Christmas decor boxes. It perfectly captures my sentiments about the holiday. I already have a TON of Christmas decorations for my small home, but this was just so perfect. The Ninjago book is for my grandsons. Then the board game was only $2 and looked fun. I love social deduction games where you write stuff from a prompt and you guess who said what. Then a book by Merrilee Boyack, who I love (mom of Connor Boyack of Tuttle Twins fame). These are fictional stories that are inspired by the Book of Mormon. I want to read these to my grandchildren. Then I opened it up and noticed Merrilee had dedicated it to her grandchildren. We think alike! I just read aloud the first one last night for bedtime to my two oldest grandsons and enjoyed it. You know how sometimes stories meant to teach and/or inspire can be tedious? This one wasn’t and I hope the rest of them are just as pleasant.

Then these church history trivia cards. The pack was $1.50. They are so beautiful! I love trivia and I love the story of the restoration of the gospel of Jesus Christ so I had to get these. I love that the artwork is so realistic. Probably done by AI. I love the rendering of Lucy Mack Smith, she looks so lovely. You can play three different games with these cards: Saints, Timeline, and Trivia. The set is #1 of a series about Church history, done by the B.H. Roberts foundation. You can see all of the four sets of the series and order them here.

Here are some of the cards below.

You can also buy them on Amazon here. Below is an image below from amazon to also show how beautiful the cards are. Each of the four packs retails for $19.95 so $1.50 is a great deal! I hope to find the rest of the packs when thrifting.

In addition to all the above, I also got these things below from that first thrifting trip, which was also to celebrate my anniversary. I found a table runner for St Patrick’s Day! I’ve been wanting more decorations for St. Patty’s Day. Only $3. It will look great with my springy-floral tablecloths as well as my gray and white patterned white tablecloth. Then the two blue outfits are for my new grandson. $2 each.

Then we have some books I got when going to some Little Free Libraries with my husband on a date. This was part of our anniversary four-day weekend celebration of Aug. 15-18. I rented a tandem bike for my husband and me, and then we learned to ride it in our neighborhood park in the afternoon. I wanted to ride it to at least 5 or 6 Little Free Libraries after we learned how to ride, and trade out whatever number books we brought for new-to-us books, but by the time we got out, we only had time for two stops, before we had to get back for our family game afternoon and pizza and ice cream dinner before our night of temple sealings. So we drove to the first Little Free Library, bringing four books. We traded two books for two books in that first Little Free Library, and then rode the bike to the second free Little Library, where we traded in two more books. So we brought home four new-to-us books. The Mulberry Street book was in great condition, and I felt a bit rebellious in adding this sometimes banned book to my Dr. Seuss collection. Then the Ben Franklin book is a Landmark book, which I do collect. I’m just bummed it’s not hardback with the pretty binding to match the others on my shelf. Oh well. I hope to read it aloud to my last child I’m homeschooling as well as to my grandchildren. I’ll also use it for my Independence Day decorations. Then Expecting Adam is about a woman who gets pregnant and then finds out her baby is expected to have Down’s Syndrome. It looks so good. Then the Little Toot book looks vintage and fun.

Then the following Tuesday I went back to the Provo DI and found the above goodies. Yes, those are baby wipes in the bottom left. The bag is still sealed, Kirkland brand, so high quality. It was $3 so cheaper than if I bought them brand new at Costco. I had just been thinking in the past month or so that I had run out of baby wipes and wanted to replenish. I don’t have babies or young kids at home on a daily basis but I like to have these on hand for quick clean ups when the grand kiddos are here.

I just love the two shirts! One is super thick, high quality designer brand, by Isaac Mizrahi. Only $3! I’m always looking for the perfect plain basic white shirt and I think I’ve finally found it because it has a flattering fit and feels so soft and thick. The other one is a fun T-shirt with a theme I love: a butterflies and nature. I can wear it with black pants, a black skirt, my red polka dot skirt, and my gingham checked black skirt. Word Flip is a Discovery Toys game. This is one game I like to keep in my baskets by the dining room for easy mealtime entertainment and connection. I got a copy of this game decades ago as a Christmas gift from my sister and we’ve used it a lot over the years at mealtime. Two of the tabs broke which was annoying because it meant that sometimes two of the letters on the card underneath where two tabs are supposed to be, showed through, if the word was longer than 7 letters. So then the game wasn’t as fun. So when I found this game at the Provo DI for only $2, and the game still had the original factory seals, I thought, “Hey I can ‘fix’ the old game for only $2 by simply replacing it!” Done!

Then here’s another rectangular basket to use for bedroom organization. One of these days I’ll get my all the toy shelves and my bedroom organized by baskets. I have plenty of thrifted baskets now, I think, I just need to take the time to do it! We shall see when it all pans out. Then we have two of my favorite things from that particular day’s haul.

First, a book about Jane Austen.

I’m so excited about it! Here’s the book summary from amazon.com:

“A comprehensive and entertaining celebration of the classic works of the nineteenth-century British novelist includes a host of offbeat trivia about the author, facts about Austen’s life and times, a detailed filmography and bibliography, quotations, sidebars, and information on literary themes.” I wish the cover art was better, it’s too cartoony for me, but the book will still be so fun! It’s amazing what happiness only $1 can buy!

Second, the Reader’s Digest Children’s Songbook. We had this book in my childhood home as I grew up and I don’t know what happened to it. I inherited most of my mom’s piano music but not this one. Our family’s copy was a different edition, it was yellow with red lettering, as shown below. All the songs, though, are the same inside with the same typography and illustrations, just green and gray and black instead of orange gray and black. So it was so fun to find this. I got it for $4, and it’s used on amazon for $4.05 plus shipping so not a huge savings, but still cheaper. It still has the audio CD inside the front cover and the lyrics booklet in the back. It looks like new!

It has so many fun songs, like The Rainbow Collection, Do-Re-Mi, The Muppet Show Theme, Somewhere Over the Rainbow, It’s Not Easy Being Green, We’re Off to the See the Wizard, The Good Ship Lollipop, The Pink Panther movie theme, and so much more. Definitely worth $4! Just having the songs from the Sesame Street/ Muppets and the Wizard of Oz alone is worth the $4!

This was a fun follow-up to finding the Reader’s Digest Popular Classics Songbooks that I found this past summer, over here.

I already have the Christmas songbook, from my 16th birthday. It gives me a lot of joy to play piano music and sing along. We sometimes do family and friend singalongs as well. After I do walking or strength exercising I reward myself by playing a song or two. Playing music is just such a quick way to dazzle my heart.

The third week of August, I went thrifting twice. I dropped my 16 year old son off for the Heroic Youth Quest and stopped at the American Fork DI on the way home. Here’s what I found, below.

I just love, love the floral skirt above. It gives me all the gorgeous flowery Ivy City Co vibes without the hefty price tag! It was only $6. I felt blessed to find a matching top in exactly the right shade of hot pink for only $3. (I folded up the top in the photo to cover up the grease spot that came at my son’s birthday dinner party when I greedily ate the last bacon wrapped onion ring while standing in the kitchen instead of properly sitting at the table where the grease would have fallen on my plate.)

I’ve always loved Heather Farrell’s writings about women of the scriptures on her blog. So I was excited to find her book, Women of the Old Testament, for only $4. Then Katy and the Big Snow is a classic picture book I can add to my winter picture book collection and read to the grandchildren. It’s one of those books I’ve checked out from the public library every year from our Morning Basket and now I don’t have to any more, so yay!

The basic Scrabble game I’ve been wanting to find, in order to add to my Gardening Scrabble to see if it makes it more fun to make the game last longer. Last time I played it just felt like it ended too soon when we ran out of tiles. The Bob Ross game I already have, but this one was still factory sealed. My old one, which I also found thrifting a few years ago, has dried out markers so I figured this was a way to fix the game just like with Word Flip above by simply replacing it with a new one. The thing on the top called Loving Families is piano sheet music from 1976. It’s a lovely song about family togetherness.

Then I got a small rose gold picture frame, for only $1. I’m going to fill it with one of my 19-year-old daughter’s adorable baby photos and put it on my desk. The science book has a totally boring ugly cover but is very interesting inside with lots of photos, illustrations, and text about basic science concepts. Then the London thing is a card deck full of cards about walking tours in London. It was still in the shrink wrap, only $1.50. My firstborn moved to Ireland this summer with his wife. I hope to visit sometime and tour London with them. These cards will help me plan a walk or two in London. I can also just use them to tour via Google Earth. I might just put it in my stocking as a stocking stuffer for Christmas and act surprised when I pull it out, LOL. It’s from Chronicle Books and retails used on Amazon for over $16.

Then the background is a flat sheet which I bought for use as a tablecloth. My fantasy self wants to sew it into a cottage core/milkmaid dress, LOL, we shall see.

Then here’s my last thrift haul for August, from the Orem Savers, below. I went looking for some supplemental birthday items to go with my son’s main birthday gift. He asked for a double bass pedal for his drum set. So that was on its way, but I also wanted to get some some other things inexpensively. I was hopeful to find something he would love.

I found the books below. The bottom two were for him. The top three I added to my Dr. Seuss/Bright and Early Beginner Books for the grandchildren. With my 20% coupon I got them each for less than $2. they each looked brand new! I got the Merlin book because he loves knights, medieval times, and sword fighting. That’s why he loves the Heroic Youth Quest, where he was acting the role of a flag-bearer that day as I bought the books. I discovered by reading the back of the book that Madeleine L’Engle endorsed the book, so that sealed the deal for me buying it. I got the Schwarzenegger book because he’s into weightlifting. He goes everyday to the rec center with his buddies and lifts weights, as inspired by his older brother, now on a mission. Older brother went to the gym every day but Sunday for a few years before the mission and competed in weightlifting competitions. He was so good he joined the 1000 club, which means he lifted over 1000 lbs total in one morning’s competition in Idaho. I realize that bodybuilding and weightlifting are not the same thing but I figured he would love the book. I wasn’t going to get it at first. I had picked a different book for him, but when I got to the check out register, the Holy Spirit told me to go back and get the bodybuilding book and put the other one back.

I’m so glad I did! The book elicited a huge grin at his family birthday dinner party as soon as he pulled away the tissue paper around the book after lifting it out from the gift bag. We also had lots of laughter, from him as well as from his cousin, his aunt and uncle, and the rest of us. His Aunt Sally said that just the day before her husband had watched the Conan the Barbarian movie. The book even has a photo of Conan! I also got him two fun T-shirts, a BYU football shirt that I had picked up at DI the day before, and then this Subway shirt below, because he loves to eat at Subway, plus two of his cousins work at one in Maine so he talks about that with his boy cousin.

So that’s it for my August thrifting hauls! I’d love to hear what thrifting treasures you’ve found so please share below in the comments if you want.

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