Saturday, April 23, 2011

Shop at "Weekend Flea Market Bargains"

     I had a request for a blog post sans sadness.  I had to run some errands today to prepare for the holiday.   As we headed to the supermarket I thought I would take on a new adventure and enter the odd little building tucked in the rear of the parking lot.  It used to be a furniture store.  Now it is the Weekend Flea Market Bargains. 
      Odd.  Bizarre.  Depressing.  These are some words that came to mind as I browsed the strange counters and spaces set up in the large building.  I then realized if I looked at it as entertaining...I would enjoy it that much more. 
     These are some things you can find at the Weekend Flea Market Bargains store:  an Abraham Lincoln cologne bottle, Asian food items, hot pink inflatable electric guitar, saddle shoes, Right Guard deodorant, a 1920 barber chair, skis, a mink coat, a foil art piece of the Last Supper, an armless child mannequin, crossbow, bottle of Nair, and some unmarked bottles of jam...maybe...in reused salsa jars. 
     I took some photos of some of my favorite finds.  It truly was a little scary and sort of sad but it was an adventure and something I've never done before.  I like antiques and flea markets as much as the next person but this was more a trip into some odd other dimension and I took a deep breath of fresh air when I left the building.  Ironically, there was ONE item I would have purchased but it was marked NOT FOR SALE....but boy would we have had a blast with the one-man-band instrument complete with cowbell and tambourine!!!

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