I have a weakness for expensive soap. The made-by-Persian-virgins-from-the milk-of-a-cashmere-goat called-Her-Highness-Frangipani-Princess kind of soap. Alas, you just don't find it in op-shops. My main source is birthdays and other buy-me-stuff celebratory times, though I would really like to learn to make soap myself, once life with a wee babe allows.
This small giant clam shell however, an elegant solution to the perennial problem of how to stop it turning into expensive, infuriating goo, was secondhand (Riccarton Market, free!). It really works, unlike wooden soap trays, plastic soap dishes and the built into the sink ceramic drainer thingy. A few minutes soak in a weak bleach solution gets these stunningly white. Apparently when alive on the reef and of sufficient size, they can grip a divers arm or leg. Had it come with it's lid-shell I might have had a chance at solving the other perennial expensive soap problem; keeping Claud's poky little fingers out of it!
are you an Op-Shop Show-Off? or more modest about your superior second hand shopping abilities?
do you like to linky?
it’s charitable, green, cheap, exciting, fun, nostalgia inducing, potentially lucrative and often just plain necessary. whatever your reason for second hand shopping we’d love it if you joined us on Tuesdays here at blackbirdhasspoken.blogspot.com for Op-Shop Show-Off, a linky open to all, all week, to link up a blog post about any aspect of your second-hand shopping life. tell us your op-shopping philosophy, or divulge your secret hunting techniques. let us know about your wants, or skite (English translation= “show-off “) about your amazing finds. review the best op-shopping spots in your town, or request or give information on your fascinating finds, you’ll always be talking to an appreciative audience here.
How to link up?
1. post your second hand shopping related blog post.
2. link to Op-Shop Show-Off in your blog post, so your blog readers can come over and peruse or post in the linky too.
3. scroll to the bottom of my latest Tuesday Op-Shop Show-Off post and click on the linky tool, then follow the three easy steps.
4. don't forget to leave me a comment to let me know you linked up.
5. have a look at some of the other linkers posts/blogs, they're all people after your own heart!
6. grab the Op-Shop Show-Off Button from my sidebar to decorate yours (paste the code into a HTML gadget under the 'add a gadget' part of the layout section in blogger and save).
