Comments on: The Time I Left My Uterus At The Thrift Store https://vintagerevivals.com/the-time-i-left-my-uterus-at-the-thrift-store/ Fearless DIY Wed, 19 Jun 2019 16:43:56 +0000 hourly 1 By: Christine https://vintagerevivals.com/the-time-i-left-my-uterus-at-the-thrift-store/#comment-443107 Tue, 17 Jun 2014 03:56:50 +0000 https://www.vintagerevivals.com/?p=16143#comment-443107 My mom owned an art gallery when I was a kid.
At 16, she had a show of sculpture by (the last name) Chong. There was a piece that was about 1.5″ tall, abstract porcelain, of a figure holding a child in the air.
To this very minute (I’m 55) I wish I had that. At 16, there was no possibility I could have afforded it myself. A friend of hers bought it, and I know they lost touch before my mom died.
I, however, know where she is. She has only two boys (1 big oaf and a good guy) who could probably care less.
I’m trying to figure out how, with any type of grace at all, I could contact her and offer to buy it.
Let this be a lesson. FORTY years later, I’m still thinking of that incredible sculpture.
Buy it. You can always sell or give it away if it doesn’t actually keep talking to you.

]]> By: bridgett https://vintagerevivals.com/the-time-i-left-my-uterus-at-the-thrift-store/#comment-437487 Thu, 12 Jun 2014 20:12:09 +0000 https://www.vintagerevivals.com/?p=16143#comment-437487 ugh this happens to me all.the.time!

]]> By: ren https://vintagerevivals.com/the-time-i-left-my-uterus-at-the-thrift-store/#comment-433172 Mon, 09 Jun 2014 18:32:35 +0000 https://www.vintagerevivals.com/?p=16143#comment-433172 i kept waiting for a Happy Ending.
how sad!
if only the world were a wish granting factory.

]]> By: Jamie w https://vintagerevivals.com/the-time-i-left-my-uterus-at-the-thrift-store/#comment-433085 Mon, 09 Jun 2014 17:02:06 +0000 https://www.vintagerevivals.com/?p=16143#comment-433085 I have had that experience at D.I. as well, internally wailing while watching people checking out with the loveliest things! But my saddest was actually at your Hoard Sale! There was the cutest little side table that I LOOOVVEED. It had no tag on it (which should have made me suspicious), but since you had run out of tags, I didn’t think much of it. I came and asked you the price and was thrilled with the $20 amount. I should have just paid for it right. then. and there. and taken it to my truck! But no, I continued to walk around and ten minutes later a girl came up to me with THE WHOLE TAG that she had taken off the piece, instead of just the perforated bottom. I wanted to cry, then yell, “Rule breaker!” and run away. But of course I couldn’t. And by then, everything else I might have wanted was already spoken for! Heartbreak.

]]> By: Rachel Rardon https://vintagerevivals.com/the-time-i-left-my-uterus-at-the-thrift-store/#comment-432851 Mon, 09 Jun 2014 13:15:22 +0000 https://www.vintagerevivals.com/?p=16143#comment-432851 I’m very sorry for your loss. That is one lucky lady! It’s like – if only you had gotten there earlier – OR… gotten their approximately 32 minutes later [and never known] – you wouldn’t be feeling this pain. Can’t win ’em all, I guess. Or maybe – you could work out an apartment rental deal with the thrift store & pay someone’s rent to live there and shop for you in return! Seems like a reasonable solution to me?! 🙂

]]> By: tristie https://vintagerevivals.com/the-time-i-left-my-uterus-at-the-thrift-store/#comment-432412 Mon, 09 Jun 2014 04:57:11 +0000 https://www.vintagerevivals.com/?p=16143#comment-432412 Sad! Ok. I have a hanging hammock-ish chair and I have to ask…how would you hang a chair like that so it doesn’t pull through the joists in the ceiling? (wanting to hang it in my daughter’s basement room. I feel heart sick for you! So sorry.

Tristie

]]> By: Brenda Roberts https://vintagerevivals.com/the-time-i-left-my-uterus-at-the-thrift-store/#comment-431979 Sun, 08 Jun 2014 20:21:53 +0000 https://www.vintagerevivals.com/?p=16143#comment-431979 How I feel your pain. In our local thrift shop one day a couple years ago, I spotted a hand quilted, hand made quilt in a lady’s basket. I am somewhat ashamed to say I followed her from a distance, hoping she’d change her mind and I would sweep in. No. Well, we ended up at the cash together and I said to her, “What a beautiful quilt!” She said, “It is, but I’m just getting it for my dog.” If I had had a uterus, I am sure it would have fallen out, too! Hahahaha.

I still think about that danged quilt…..

]]> By: Manda Laine https://vintagerevivals.com/the-time-i-left-my-uterus-at-the-thrift-store/#comment-431757 Sun, 08 Jun 2014 15:04:28 +0000 https://www.vintagerevivals.com/?p=16143#comment-431757 Okay, but on the bright side, think of all of the times that your heart has been lifted up into the fluffy clouds when you have found the most amazingly perfect find. And it’s yours, all yours. I always half expect to be tackled from a person almost as crazy as me when I find the amazingly perfect find. At Goodwill I once found a velvet vintage baby pea coat, peacock blue colored with cream trim and a matching bonnet. It took my breath away, literally…then I looked at the tag and it said 2.99…I thought that it had to be a rotten, cruel joke. But no, it was mine, ALL mine. I would not even place it in the cart for fear that someone would snatch it and run. I am so delighted to find another Thrift Crazy human 🙂 Love your work!
*amanda*

]]> By: Megan https://vintagerevivals.com/the-time-i-left-my-uterus-at-the-thrift-store/#comment-431406 Sun, 08 Jun 2014 08:52:28 +0000 https://www.vintagerevivals.com/?p=16143#comment-431406 That is the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen! Love it!

https://www.megansvoyages.blogspot.co.uk

]]> By: Gwen, The Makerista https://vintagerevivals.com/the-time-i-left-my-uterus-at-the-thrift-store/#comment-431192 Sun, 08 Jun 2014 04:28:01 +0000 https://www.vintagerevivals.com/?p=16143#comment-431192 Oh, you poor thing! Isn’t that the worst ever? And I hate how sometimes I buy things because I’m afraid I’ll regret not getting them, but then sometimes after I buy them, I think, “well that was kind of silly.” Apparently I need you to franchise the Hoard Sale and I’ll take the midwest region, please.

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