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<p>[QUOTE="MrNate, post: 304387, member: 5515"]Wow, wow, and wow is how I would describe my day today. I've been sick over the weekend, and partly to spare my family from getting the same cold, I struck out to see some of my local thrift shops. I had the goal to see how many stores I could visit between 11am and 6pm. It was a ROUGH day! I'm not just searching for silver, I'm really looking for anything of value, and the stores were quite challenging today. I passed on a lot of items (the sign of a disciplined hunter in my opinion) and continued just hoping that something would turn up for me.</p><p><br /></p><p>It's definitely not the first time I've had a long challenging day trying to find something nice, but it wears you down after a number of hours, and it's a terrible feeling when you come home at the end of a day without anything really valuable to show for it. I still enjoy the process, but I enjoy it more when I bring home some goodies. Well...I got lucky. Almost 6 hours into my search, I came across two bowls stacked on top of each other, the one on the bottom looked obviously plated, but the one on top of it looked GREAT. To me, this is the greatest moment of anticipation, the bowl looks great, but you say to yourself "it's probably just another thick plated bowl" and as you pick the bowl up and flip it over, you see the most wonderful set of letters, and you wonder to yourself "how did the owner miss it? how did the workers at the store miss it? how did everyone else shopping in the store miss it? but who CARES I FOUND IT!!" ....Sterling</p><p><br /></p><p>Sorry for my dramatic explanation, but that's honestly how excited I get every time I find something, I'm glad I get to post another one to the forum! I bought this one for $3 and a LOT of driving from store to store.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]99802[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]99803[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]99804[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]99805[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]99806[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]99807[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="MrNate, post: 304387, member: 5515"]Wow, wow, and wow is how I would describe my day today. I've been sick over the weekend, and partly to spare my family from getting the same cold, I struck out to see some of my local thrift shops. I had the goal to see how many stores I could visit between 11am and 6pm. It was a ROUGH day! I'm not just searching for silver, I'm really looking for anything of value, and the stores were quite challenging today. I passed on a lot of items (the sign of a disciplined hunter in my opinion) and continued just hoping that something would turn up for me. It's definitely not the first time I've had a long challenging day trying to find something nice, but it wears you down after a number of hours, and it's a terrible feeling when you come home at the end of a day without anything really valuable to show for it. I still enjoy the process, but I enjoy it more when I bring home some goodies. Well...I got lucky. Almost 6 hours into my search, I came across two bowls stacked on top of each other, the one on the bottom looked obviously plated, but the one on top of it looked GREAT. To me, this is the greatest moment of anticipation, the bowl looks great, but you say to yourself "it's probably just another thick plated bowl" and as you pick the bowl up and flip it over, you see the most wonderful set of letters, and you wonder to yourself "how did the owner miss it? how did the workers at the store miss it? how did everyone else shopping in the store miss it? but who CARES I FOUND IT!!" ....Sterling Sorry for my dramatic explanation, but that's honestly how excited I get every time I find something, I'm glad I get to post another one to the forum! I bought this one for $3 and a LOT of driving from store to store. [ATTACH=full]99802[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]99803[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]99804[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]99805[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]99806[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]99807[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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