Our school fete is on tonight. We lucky teachers have to work until 10:00pm instead of knocking off at 3:00 pm (like we ever do... hardy-ha-ha).
There's one thing we look forward to though and that is we get to raid the Trash and Treasure stall before the gates open at 5:30pm.
As soon as we've finished setting up our own stalls we're like a bunch of crazy Boxing Day shoppers, aggressively shoving our way through the doors of David Jones in a frenzied search for that elusive bargain.
We take no prisoners. It was like a cat fight this afternoon and I've the fingernail marks on my bloodied arms to prove it.
All I can say is, it's amazing what people are willing to part with. The generous, albeit pre-loved donations titillated each and everyone of us girls and let me tell you... the bootie I snapped up was worth every elbow in the guts and Chinese burn those other bee-artches delivered.
Carla is the most athletic of us and scored the Dazza's Fishin and Drinkin DVD as well as a cool new hat and an antique camera. Lucky bloody cow!
Plus... she somehow nicked one of the best items on the table without the rest of us seeing... a Wiggle's money bag.
Adriana's little girl is going to be thrilled with the piggy bank her Mum fought tooth and claw for. The best thing about it is IT STILL HAD ITS BOX!
Then Paula, nabbed the Bob the Builder doll we all had our eyes on using subterfuge and camouflage. (Well... we think it's supposed to be Bob the Builder and it did smell a bit funny).
Tash, who is into decorating and Feng Shui, bigtime... found a delightful Chinese artifact we all agreed probably dates back to at least the 1970s. The K-Martian era?
Christie-lee, the scariest and perhaps most dedicated fossicker of obscure but valuable items, unearthed some old hair curlers and the shelf from a fridge. Damn her!
Bloody Emm, tackled me just as I was about to grab the racing controller for a console (without a console) and beat me to the punch. And to add insult to injury, she brazenly pinched the plastic duck from under my nose.
Emmsie thought she'd discovered a bag of archaic paper clips (possibly worth a lot of money) until we told her they were just some old perming rods.
But Pinky scored big time!!! Here's what I managed to grab before the others...
A bottle of aged shampoo! (Okay, it's clearly already been opened but it's European and that's good, right?)
A barely used French Fry cutter (still in the box).
A slightly rusty corkscrew... for when wine manufacturers finally realise screw-top wine bottles are not really all that convenient.
A kitchen thingy set with a VERY interestingly shaped something in the back right hand corner???
And finally... the best buy in the Trash and Treasure stall...
a teapot lid. Please, if anyone has a teapot that matches this lid I'm willing to cough up a very good price.
A full, pictorial report on the fete will appear in the very near future.
Please comment on the best thing you've seen at a trash and treasure sale.
