Birthlink Thrift Shops

Anyway, what's your favourite Bill Withers Song, and why is it Grandma's Hands?

It's the 18th of February, and you all* know what that means!

I'll be listening Bill Withers in the shop all morning, a genius. Also scientifically proven the perfect soundtrack to thrift to!

*None of you know this, because i just made it up, but Bill Withers deserves a day

What's the collective term for Garfield's?

A Parliament? A murder? A Lasagne?

Suggestions below please!

... Uhm...

Yeah! It still exists! It's in polwarth, not sure if it was somewhere else before that though 🤔 might be getting your pols mixed up, which one has penguins?

Our intrepid book excavator has unearthed a real gem!

'An Outline of Occult Science by Rudolph Steiner' (aye, that Steiner) 1914.

£200 is a heavy slice of cheese but, it's incredibly rare & pretty weird 🤷

Also some fliers for meetings we've not priced, but they're really cool, so have a look!

Same...

We don't celebrate Izzy enough.

An absolute bastion of thrift, the beating heart of Shop2. Izzy has been volunteering with Birthlink longer than I've been alive. The best dressed, hardest worker, and won't take any nonsense.

Style icon, Thrift Shop hero. Absolute legend.

All praise Izzy!

Fortune favors the bald

A human mind designed this, another ok'd its production, another its distribution then yet another human mind saw it in a shop and spent their hard earned money on it.

Maybe the robots should be in charge...

Anyway, this is awful, wanna buy it?

A human mind designed this, another ok'd its production, another its distribution then yet another human mind saw it in a shop and spent their hard earned money on it.

Maybe the robots should be in charge...

Anyway, this is awful, wanna buy it?

Did one go on a beach holiday with Brian Wilson in 1976 and got in to hot water with the law in the former Yugoslavian republic of Macedonia for smuggling a ham sandwich across the border?

Or ya know maybe one just hates crisps.

Best one is the name for the full year!
What an honour!

New year, new names for our mannequin heads.

They all have a unique, Charm? (Even the boring ones have a lot of something😬)

Pop your name suggestions for each one in the comments, add a bit of backstory. Did 1 commit insurance fraud in 1993 and is still on the run from Churchills nodding dog? 1/2

Wellys and sequins are never not in style!

Day 2 down, somehow even busier than yesterday!

8 new boxes of stock on the shop floor for tomorrow! Come get it while the thrift is good!

Badly cut out individual letters hung in a shop window to form a sign saying 'poorly thought out sale'

I'm sure you're all wondering how the first day of the sale went...

I can confidently say, I was not as prepared as I thought, an hour to set up I thought, be fine I thought...

So, a huge thank you to all the customers that helped me hang stuff today... i'd still be there if it wasn't for yous 😎

... consumed so many cups of tea that in decades to come will probably be to blame for some as yet undiscovered bladder issues.

But, to celebrate, if you wish me a happy ThriftPloyment day, I'll give you 0% discount!!

Here's Formaldehyde all Glammed up for a party in a river.

Today is 13 years since I became custodian of the Thrift!

And in that time I've met so many wonderful people, some absolutely awful people, hundreds of good dogs, made friends, enemies, found some truly haunting things...

1/2

It's the Thrift Shop Gift guide X Niche Book Club Collab nobody asked for.

The Modern Practical Plumber, 1957 all three editions for £25. Perfect boxing day reading material.

Some really visually pleasing diagrams and some great photographs of sharp dressed plumbers plumbing!

We do!

We have a second shop, 1 minute walk up the road that sells bric-a-brac and has entire room for books!

We're also accepting donations, so if you drop a bag off at the same time... And just happen to find yourself in here...

The draw will be shared with people entering on Instagram, so if you follow us over there you can enter here and there!

(Only one winner, but there's gonna be another competition starting as soon as this one ends!)

May the thriftshop gods be forever in your favour

Win a £25 voucher to spend in our massive sale!

I have over prepared, 42 boxes of clothes is like two entire shops full of clothes.

Anyway!

Tag a pal in the comments= 1 entry.
Repost= 1 entry

Make sure you're following us so I can DM the winner 🤘

You can enter as many times as ya like!

The thrift shop gift guide part two!

Here's a ridiculous(ly) cool 1980s Bogner Aviation ski suit, modeled here by Formaldehyde.

Probably a large, but oversized is in.

Maybe not for flying down the Matterhorn, but for cutting about town, throwing elbows In the moshpit (Christmas market) perfect.

Traditional scenes, Santa skiing, Santa with a whip, Santa sporting a rifle... And who could forget that most festive of moments Rudolph and blitzen turn into dogs.

(I know, it's probably not Santa. But, red and white suit, sled, big boots December, we need to sell it, so... it's Santa. 😎)

Some of you wanted it!
I was gonna do it anyway 🙃

Here' it is! The first of this year's thrift shop gift guide!

Forget your fast fashion Christmas jumpers. How about this vintage 'Christmas' wool coat...

1/2

It's 1940s, real fur. Sorry.

I know.

But throwing it away now seems so much worse.

It needs some tlc, could do with a new lining, at the very least some pocket inners, but it is £80.

I love it when people share their thrifty finds!

We don't have many followers on here, so, shouting into the void a wee bit.

BUT don't be shy! Show us ya bargains! Tag us in your posts ANY TIME!

I didn't buy this coat, it's still here!

I know I need a haircut, don't start.

Explanation of coat👇

It might be too late this time, it works best if you catch it in the pulsing behind the eye stage.

But 1/3 a can of full fat coke, and some dissolvable paracetamol. Down it like a shot.

Changed my life, heard it on radio Scotland last year maybe. It doesn't work for everyone, but worth a shot!

May have stretched the world miracle cure to it's absolute limits there tbh, goes from being unable to open my eyes to feeling like I'm hungover. So ya know... It's better 😂