True North Thrifting, Antiquing & Vintage Garage Sales!

The True North, strong...and practically free! We're criss-crossing Vancouver, BC and surrounds, freestyling between appointments as we encounter random estate and garage sales, thrift stores we know have deals on our collector favorites...and one place we've never seen before!

We start at a cryptically advertised estate sale we found on Kijiji.ca, the Canadian equivalent to Craigslist. It's not packed, but everything is old, and runs the gamut from interesting painted theater screens to quaint English plaques! We enjoy true primitives and a cool copper kindling bin, then head through the countryside towards the big city...where another garage/estate sale catches our eye with a hand scrawled sign.

This one offers a hybridized US/Canadian mantel clock, fun foam ball caps and a garage full of tools, along with Wedgwood, Mats Jonasson paperweights, Portugese pottery butterflies, and even an old hamper that's worth pondering! We choose the best hat for the occasion, and then head towards a thrift store mecca that offers three different bargain hunts in one locale.

Talize is a thrift store chain that only people lucky enough to live in one of a dozen towns in BC and Ontario have seen, and we're intrigued! Right away, a table of Johnson Bros. Friendly Village and some rhinestone adorned Japanese tableware reflect the changes in taste as immigrants have come to this part of Canada, and we realize we're in for something different here. Bargain priced Pyrex with our newly acquired senior discount is the obvious buy, but Paragon China pieces, depression and pattern glass vie for our attention. Then it's across the street, where Value Village offers good deals on vintage and antique house goods we can flip for a profit, along with some furniture that's so delightfully low priced that we can hardly stand it!

Thrifting and garage sale-ing is so fun in a new location, and our foray into Greater Vancouver's offerings only whets our appetite for a future day devoted to thrifting in the great white north.

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