Red Letter Day Thrift Finds

Back by popular demand!  I'm not trying to flood the blog with vintage Care Bears but it would be a crime not to post about the gems we stumbbled across while thrift venturing yesterday evening.

Holly was the bread winner during this trip as she basically uncovered all the goods.   Such as these 2 Care Bear wall plaques. 

 

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It was a great day for vintage Care Bear stuff.  This would have cost us maybe more than $30 if we wanted to purchase ths stuff online but it was only $4-5.  I like finding things that you collect.

 

 

 

 

Tonka Toys released 'Pooch Patrol' in the early 90s; I remember them being pretty popular or maybe I just remember the commercial being aired alot.  Never knew anyone who actually owned one so maybe it was all hype.

 

And last but not least - this beautiful piece of Canadicana.

 

 

 The Canadian Tire 'Give Like Santa, Save Like Scrooge' commercials from the 1980s and 90s bring back a lot of Christmas memories as I'm sure it does for many Canadians.  Canadian Tire got rid of the advertsing due to it was not appealing to their company image anymore.  This bank rocks!

 

 Linking up with Sir Thrift A Lot and A Living Space!

 

Little Loot



Sometimes when we find things from a second hand store I wonder what the story is behind it; where did it come from and who had it.

 

Here are a couple of things we found yesterday I got that feeling from.

 

It's a beaver wearing a top hat and scarf coin bank.  This guy is marked 'Reliable' and 'Made In Canada' but is unfortunately undated.  I couldn't find anything about him online either.  He's a great looking vintage bank that has a 60s cartoon character charm.  I can see it being sold on the shelfs of Canadian Tire back in the day.

This rubber teddy bear is marked, 'Made In West Germany' but undated.  I'd really like to know the year of production as I have no idea when it could have made.  Nonetheless it's an interesting looking bear, it kinda looks like Marvel Comics, the Thing but Google returned no results for that search quarry.  Who knows, it could have been part of a toyline or maybe even a doggie chew toy.

You can't go wrong with a rubber faced Santa Claus.  This Saint Nick is marked, 'Made In Korea' and undated, looks 80ish to me.  The cats may fall in love with the beard if they come near it.  Ollie seems to really like furry things and I could see her hauling it down from it's place from time to time.

We had about 15cm of snow last night, the largest snowfall thus far into the winter season - although we're still into Fall.  It wasn't too bad, hopefully the weather is good to us during the upcoming weeks as we have some driving to do during the holiday season.  We haven't had the best of luck in weather conditions when it comes to taking long drives during the winter period.

Linking up with The Thrifty Groove, Rednesday and Share Your Cup Thursday.