Thrift Finds: Wooden Toys

[windinthemaples]

I'm still hoping, selfishly, that this will catch on with my other thrifting friends. :D



Thrift Find: 2 Holztiger Panda Bear Toys
Found At: Goodwill in Lake Zurich, Illinois
Price Paid: $1.75
Why I'm So Excited: This pair was mistakenly shelved with the decorative wooden plaques and knicknacks when, in fact, they are two beautiful wooden toys from the (amazing) Holztiger company. They retail, together, about $22-$25. I love wooden toys and wish that all of Graeme's toys were wooden. He already had a Holztiger Chicken and Rabbit that I bought him at Farm Sanctuary and now these. They are satin smooth and will last forever. I can't believe something this heirloom-quality and never-played-with and pricey ever made it to a thrift store. See more Holztiger toys here.

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Thrift Find: Vintage Toy Stable
Found At: Goodwill in Mundelein, Illinois
Price Paid: $1.90
Why I'm So Excited: It is a giant, sturdily made stable with a central aisle and four stalls that would fit big traditional Breyer model horses. It's in beautiful shape, just missing one screw on the roof. I'm assuming it is vintage though there are no marks or company info on it. But still--it is so perfect and so charming and how-did-that-end-up-priced-for-under-2-dollars?! Graeme spent a lot of time hugging it at home, he was so happy to have a big warm refuge for his animal toys to play in during the winter. ;)

Comments

[gentle-dream.livejournal.com]

I love thrift stores. It's one of my great interests to go there and find treasures. It's incredible what people throw away. Things often new and in packages or it's hardly been used. The wooden pandas are beautiful. They are even decorative to put down even when you don't have children.

[sugarmaplelife.livejournal.com]

I do, too! Whenever I'm on vacation, I can't ever leave a place without seeing their thrift stores first. :D

[costumenut.livejournal.com]

Love these! Are you a garage-saler too? I used to be but fell out of the practice with the CA move.

[sugarmaplelife.livejournal.com]

I was never a big garage saler. (Except as a child--I loved riding my bike to garage sales and spending my pocket change there. :) ) As an adult, I liked it but I was almost always working on Saturdays since I was in retail. In Chicago, there weren't any garages or yards, so I'd try to stop when I saw sidewalk sales but there weren't many. I look forward to trying to hit garage sales in this area when the weather warms up. :)

[mermaiden.livejournal.com]

These are MADE OF WIN!!!! Holy crap! :D

[sugarmaplelife.livejournal.com]

*thrift mojo fistbump*

[tapati.livejournal.com]

My grandpa made wooden toys for me and my own children. They are the best. :)

[sugarmaplelife.livejournal.com]

That's wonderful! My grandpas are both woodworkers, and I was always in awe of how they could turn wood scraps, with a little time and a lot of noise, into a toy in the space of an afternoon. I love how wood toys are making such a big comeback with companies like Plan Toys. They are each, afterall, worth a hundred plastic toys.

[ladyvox.livejournal.com]

These pandas are the cutest! I too love wooden toys, and am hoping to provide our future kids with wooden toys rather then this plastic crap you see so much of these days heh. Whenever I run into cute stuff I am so tempted to buy it already and just store it for a couple more years.. however our house is cramped enough as it is already so I refrain from doing so haha! Really love the stables too!:)