Tip shop finds - yay!

My daughter's swimming lesson has been altered to a different time - which allowed us to get to the local tip-shop when it opened last Saturday... I LOVE op-shopping and collecting 'junk'. It gives me such a high to find a great vintage piece at a next-to-nothing price!!

I enjoy going to the tip-shop, and I am well aware that the best time to get there is when it opens... but unfortunately I haven't had much chance to do that. But on Saturday the whole family went - I prepared hubby for the crowds - knowing that he would likely go into shock when he saw the people queued up outside waiting for the doors to open... I had managed to convince him to go - as he wanted quite a few large pots to plant some vegie seeds that he'd recently bought.. I told him there were heaps of pots at the tip shop - much cheaper than Bunnings.. I of course knew I would have my eye out for other things aswell.

And guess what!?? I scored!!! So excited by what I brought home - all for $20 (which included all the pots that Ben bought!)

Obviously I am reliving my childhood a lot with the things I like to buy:

This tree-house toy above I had as a child, and is quite collectable now!

I had a little trike just like this one!

I love the vintage prints on these playing cards...

These timber cigar boxes are a great size for storing things... I thought I could use my creativity to paint them up... but am quite keen on the printed labels that are on them. As I guessed, my daughter T enjoys putting bits and pieces inside and piling them up and reorganising them (just like her mum!)

Can't wait to go to the tip-shop again next week!