Accumulations

After a year in the dorms, eating out of vending machines and whatever else I could get on my meal plan, I am ready to be in an apartment next year. Granted, I won't have the Bosch mixer and fully-stocked kitchen I dream of having one day, but at least I'll have a kitchen, with a few pots and pans and mixing bowls. My game plan for the summer is to go thrifting every couple weeks (preferably on Saturday, when almost everything is 50% off) and slowly building up my personal stash of kitchen tools and accessories. I've also benefited from donations of used items from others, and a couple garage sale bargains!

Here's a sampling of my stash so far:

Featured above are:
-a waffle iron, crock pot, and small mixing bowl, donations from Grandma's recent garage clean-out
-a set of four cute heart motif desert plates, which were a Valentine's gift from Susan many years ago
-a strainer from the dollar store
-a package of napkins, donated by Mom from a recent bulk package purchased at Sam's Club

This is the mixing bowl I bought new at TJMaxx last week. It was a good price and it's a great size for everything from biscuits to cookie dough. Plus, it came in about every great color imaginable.

Though not a thrifting find, this flatware set is maybe my favorite find so far. I got two sets, each containing service for four, for the low price of:

each. Yup, I got flatware service for eight for $16.00!

We went thrifting twice this last week, and I came away with a couple more pots and a collection of black and white dishes. I'll snap pictures of those later, because they are super cute. We found a few plates in two or three coordinating patterns, all black and off-white. We picked the color scheme because it will be easy to mix in pieces from different sets and designs. Documentation of thrifting bounty to come!