Let’s talk more about thrifting for gifting! It’s Frugal Friday! You have less than a week left for Christmas shopping. If you still have some shopping to do, I encourage you to check out your local thrift stores. You can find things still new with their tags, or in like new condition, which are totally OK for giving, even if you pay thrift store prices.

I’m so excited about giving my gifts for Christmas! Many of those gifts include ones I found at thrift stores. Mostly books! Today I wrapped a lot of the books plus other items. I wrapped these fun guys and one girl Duplo figures plus non Duplo action figures shown above for my grandsons. I found them in a bag for $3.60 at Savers. We have a big Duplo collection that we’ve gathered through the years that the grandchildren now play with. They also have a lot of Duplos at their home. So I was thrilled to find these Duplo guys with some non Duplo guys. Definitely a Magical Thrifting Moment (MTM)! I’m pairing them with the two books below I found, also when thrifting, to give in an adventure-themed basket or box for my two grandsons, who are brothers. Then I’m adding a new kit I found on amazon that is for cutting up and joining cardboard together to build play structures and objects. I thought it would be fun to build little houses for these guys and big structures too for the boys to use as homes or forts. I’ll put these action figures and the books all in a big basket I find in a thrift store this coming week, with some coupons that say “Good for Two Hours of Building and Playing Adventures With Grandma.” I’m excited to play with them with these fun toys, and read to them the books below. Hopefully the books will inspire some playful adventure.

I found this book above the same time as the Duplo figures, at the Orem Savers, for $4. It looks like it was never used! I have had my own copy for years for my sons and the companion book for girls to inspire my daughters. Actually the girls book is my older daughter’s. She never took it with her when she left home for college, so it’s still here on a bookshelf here in this room while I blog. Maybe she’ll let me keep it until she has a daughter. I like seeing it sit next to the boy one, as sibling volumes. So far she has three little boys and no girls yet. I love these books because they teach all the old-fashioned skills like tying knots, recognizing constellations, carving wood, rowing in a canoe, playing yard games etc. All fun things to do away from screens It also has tons of lists for trivia lovers, like the 50 US States and Capitals.

My grandsons are a little young for it, at ages 4 and 7, but they will grow into it and hopefully use it their whole lives. They can fight over it when they move out, LOL. I also got this fun Marvel character storybook below for them to add to the adventure box/basket. So I’ve got a mix of old school fun with comic book superheroes.

(Here’s what the girls’ one looks like.

My daughter’s copy is very worn and well-loved.)

You can see other stuff I got for Christmas gifts over here, and items I gifted my mom for her birthday here.

Watch these videos in YouTube over here for more thrifting for gifting inspiration!! It’s not too late to find cool stuff for Christmas gift-giving. Merry Thriftmas!