I have recently become addicted to thrifting. Seriously, my DP is humoring me with "Oh, great find!"'s, but i know if I don't stop she's gonna start the butt kicking. 
I had to post what I found in a thrift store today. I have never been into this particular store, but it's only a few miles from DD's school and thought I'd saunter in and see what they were about. I'm in the toy section looking at books (trying to find some classics to add to the collection) and..................there they were.
3 beautiful boxes of knobless cylinders!!! One green, one red, one yellow. Unfortunately no blue.
The other unfortunate thing is that the red box only has 9 pcs. and the green and yellow only have 8 pcs., but I'm going to see if anybody can sell me replacement parts of those pieces. I know a lot of companies sell the smallest piece, but I'm hoping for the two smallest pcs. for the green and yellow. I literally screamed "OH MY GOD" in the store and my kids came running to me saying, "WHAT Mommy? WHAT?????" 
All 3 boxes for $3.99!!!!!!
Then, I turn the corner into the "wooden box/tray/misc." aisle and picked up this large tray thinking, "Hmmm...this could work for a home made moveable alphabet" and started to count the squares. Again, talking out loud to myself, I said, "Oh, PERFECT! This would work!" when I counted 27 squares. I was thinking that a moveable alphabet tray has a couple of extra boxes for the dots over the i and j (and maybe punctuation?). Then when I looked closely it said NIENHAUS made in Holland. Again, screaming "OH MY GOD!" I rushed to the register in disbelief.
I looked on the Nienhaus website and it looks like the Medium tray that costs $109!!!! I got this one for $3.97 and it looks like it has never been used. It doesn't have a lid, but that's ok for $3.97!! WHOA!
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Does anybody know where I might look for the extra pcs.? Also, do any of you know if any companies out there will sell me just the blue box of knobless cylinders?
I had to post what I found in a thrift store today. I have never been into this particular store, but it's only a few miles from DD's school and thought I'd saunter in and see what they were about. I'm in the toy section looking at books (trying to find some classics to add to the collection) and..................there they were.
3 beautiful boxes of knobless cylinders!!! One green, one red, one yellow. Unfortunately no blue.
The other unfortunate thing is that the red box only has 9 pcs. and the green and yellow only have 8 pcs., but I'm going to see if anybody can sell me replacement parts of those pieces. I know a lot of companies sell the smallest piece, but I'm hoping for the two smallest pcs. for the green and yellow. I literally screamed "OH MY GOD" in the store and my kids came running to me saying, "WHAT Mommy? WHAT?????" All 3 boxes for $3.99!!!!!!Then, I turn the corner into the "wooden box/tray/misc." aisle and picked up this large tray thinking, "Hmmm...this could work for a home made moveable alphabet" and started to count the squares. Again, talking out loud to myself, I said, "Oh, PERFECT! This would work!" when I counted 27 squares. I was thinking that a moveable alphabet tray has a couple of extra boxes for the dots over the i and j (and maybe punctuation?). Then when I looked closely it said NIENHAUS made in Holland. Again, screaming "OH MY GOD!" I rushed to the register in disbelief.
I looked on the Nienhaus website and it looks like the Medium tray that costs $109!!!! I got this one for $3.97 and it looks like it has never been used. It doesn't have a lid, but that's ok for $3.97!! WHOA!:Does anybody know where I might look for the extra pcs.? Also, do any of you know if any companies out there will sell me just the blue box of knobless cylinders?
