this gazillion piece tea set is being sold in a charity store here in my area...and strangely i had such a kak day that i thought that only a vintage floral tea set would cheer me up. so i stopped and parked when i did a drive by past one of my favourite charity stores because low and behol, i saw a vintage floral tea set in their window. it was even more beautiful than it had first appeared. i saw a price and thought that was it (r350) but...every piece was priced, making the whole set a total of r900. and guess what? you can't buy pieces separately. so, a set they got for free, will now set you back r900..hmm. that's even more than the antique store next door would sell it at. ya, but this is cape town, where ''''''charity'''' store owners have taken it upon themselves to just sommer sell their free stuff at mammoth prices. milnerton market have been doing this for the last two years or so too. well good luck to them all. i did love this tea set so much though.
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i felt the same way today when i went into an antique slash second hand store over my lunch break and spotted four beautiful tea cups with matching saucers (of different patterns) selling for R350 EACH. EACH. i mean, i would have bought all four for R350 maybe? people are weird / desperate.
i think if they were desperate, they would be selling the tea cups at the (i thought average) vintage tea cup and saucer price of r80 or less! that definitely seems to be the average i've noted in my travels. these people are pa-the-tic. i have sold coffee tables and beveled mirrors for r400 and under!!! i mean, when i saw the r350 tag, even that felt like a total splurge, cos i could not have resold it if i bought it at that price, but r900....i hope they come to their senses in time to drop if before my shoot this saturday, cos it realllllllly would have gone perfectly. is there a daddy warbucks in the house?
haai dude, what charity shop....
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