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HOT: Salvos Store, 81 Victoria Crescent, Abbotsford

July 20, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

I know, I know, I’m becoming obsessed with charity stores and cheap glassware. But how could I resist when I cycled past what appeared to be the Salvos Store flagship? Endless rooms and shelves and racks of mustiness and potential treasure! And treasure I did find: large swathes of fabric remnants, useful as jar covers [...]

HOT: Vinnies Centre, 121 Johnston St, Collingwood

July 8, 2009 ⋅ One comment

Yesterday a thought popped into my head that I should buy a baking dish. Today I spotted the perfect dish in the window of my local Vinnies Centre. It was meant to be – a $2 white Corningware dish! My charitable contribution to St Vincent de Paul Society also extended to: one clip-lock plastic container [...]

HOT: Lost and Found Market, 12 Smith St, Collingwood

April 13, 2009 ⋅ 4 comments

RM has been very patient with my new found penchant for retro lamps, so off I dragged him to Lost and Found Market. This indoor market is smaller than Chapel Street Bazaar but runs on the same idea – stall holders have a small space to display their secondhand wares, ranging from clothes, accessories, furniture, [...]

HOT: Chapel Street Bazaar, 217 Chapel St, Prahran

April 12, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Poking around a market is the perfect Sunday activity for me, and luckily RM was happy to indulge in my new-found passion for retro furniture. Chapel Street Bazaar, a treasure trove of unusual vintage everything, yielded not one, but two wonderfully restored and reasonably priced 60s lamps – a blue one for him, a red [...]

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