Although they might pretend otherwise, people do eat, sleep and drink. There's no point in buying the Christian Louboutin 'Rollerball' flats, if you invite someone to your house, and serve them a fine pinot noir out of a Tasmanian devil mug.
I'm nowhere near the dream shoe market yet, but at least I've got my crockery down. This in part is from a discovery i made in the charity division...
Gazing through the dusty shelves of plates, glasses and cups, I clapped on a beautiful, second hand, fine enameled plate bearing a cat's face; a steal at 99p. It was the sort of plate you can buy from the back of readers digest for twelve monthly installments.
The demographic for commemorative plates or ornate crockery are, I imagine, octogenarians. Life can't go on forever, and these gems make their way to the charity shop.
After four or so years of eating off of the Queen's face, I'll never go back. Even if you just want unbranded wear its easy to find full matching sets, but something kept drawing me back to the royal memorabilia. So over the years I've amassed quite a collection, my favorite being the royal weddings. Don't get me wrong...or started on the issue of the monarchy, I don't support it, and wouldn't buy these items new. The key to my collection is that it cost next to nothing.
I wanted to blog about this fantastic resource and looking through the net for a good example of the 'quality' goods you can find for next to nothing, led me to these:
On the subject of the UK, Victimize have a interesting history of unfulfilled promises and suicide. The cover to their second single is one of my favorites, a real find considering there are only a thousand. My copy was lodged down the back of a DJ booth covered in dust. Ok Victimize may not have had the best lyrics or great timing or slick talent, but something about the record has an innocent charm.
High Rising Failure Is my favorite.
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