ThriftHorror

Recent Posts

  • Interrupting your silence for an update!
  • Rabbit Season!!
  • Dolphins in Bondage
  • From the ‘Creepy Little Dead Girl’ Files
  • Putti: Creepy as F***

Recent Comments

  • Hannah Theresa Weyland on Just stand still.
  • Brunettepet on Can’t sleep, birdhouse will eat me
  • hotclaws on And another enigma.
  • Brunettepet on Well and truly fired
  • Brunettepet on A beautiful mystery!

Tags

"handicrafts" (tm) 12 Days 2010 12days2011 12days2012 12days2013 12days2014 aminals amorphous blobs angels bad art Bears Best Of biohazard bottles broked candles ceramics children Christmas clowns Country Crafts DIY dolls don't wear that! for the kids furries Halloween Holiday Posts horrors huh? it must be bunnies Just Cool juxtapositions kittens moments My Funny Valentine? Not PC NSFW plates puppies San Antonio shelfpig shell art Weird Religion

Best of Thrift

  • Next To New Consignment
  • Top Drawer Thrift
  • Treasure City Thrift

Blogness

  • Rewind Knits and Crochets
  • Thrift Madness
  • Thrift Store Adventures
  • Thrift Store Horror
  • Yardsaling to Adventure!

Links

  • RSS Feed
  • Thrifthorror on Facebook
  • Thrifthorror on Pinterest
  • ThriftHorror on Twitter

A little light miscellany

Let’s throw some things at this blank sheet of virtual paper and see if they stick.

Just as a quick question, what do you drink in the morning? Coffee? Tea? Three fingers of bourbon? Me, I like to drink a big mug of Borax.

3-23-072222loveborax

Let me tell you, NOTHING wakes you up like a mug of borax. After a steaming hot cuppa, I’m ready to face the day with bounce in my step, a song in my heart, and a full-body rash.

Just…don’t get any of that imported Borax. British borax is a sweet sweet lie, it doesn’t have the rich flavor and dark aroma of the U.S. kind.

Whilest clicking around for inspiration, I stumbled across a “we pay people to write gibberish and call it information” site which shall remain nameless (though the first three letters are “shv,” the last five are “oong,” and it is MAGIC ON TOAST if you like incomprehensible nonsense) informs me that borax makes brown sugar “very loud and hard to split” and display “visible beads of shiny.” Ford knows what it would do to coffee. Could give you super powers. Or rosacea.

Continuing the “theme”…I have had this picture for years, and never really knew what to make of it.

7-14-07txtrhftblock

I know what it’s for, it’s for pushing. But I still haven’t quite noodled what it’s meant to push. Borax, maybe? Hopes and dreams? An agenda? Drugs? All of these things at once?

We performed an experiment with the pushing block. I stood in front of the door and refused to leave until the block itself shoved me out the door. Nothing happened, but two people asked me how much the same food processor cost and one of the cashiers might have hit on me. I kind of hope so, second-hand employee discounts are the best.

Mug full of Borax from Goodwill on 2222; Pushing Block from Texas Thrift near I35 and 51st.

February 23, 2011   TV's Jacob
Uncategorized huh?

Related Posts

  • Dolphins in Bondage
    Dolphins in Bondage
  • Cat from Outer Space
    Cat from Outer Space
  • Scary Santa’s Christmas Garrote
    Scary Santa’s Christmas Garrote
×

  • Like rocks through an hourglass…
  • Sweet little egg-girl

2 Responses to “A little light miscellany”

  1. Reply
    Kim / 26 Feb 2011 3:20pm #

    I think pushing blocks are for pushing planks through a table saw? To prevent you from hacking off your fingers. The handle on that looks a bit short though, I know my dad had a long stick for this purpose.

    • Reply
      TV's Jacob / 1 Mar 2011 8:01pm #

      Oh, Kim, you take away the magic when you explain the mysteries :) That makes perfect sense, actually, I hadn’t thought of that prior.

Leave a Reply

Cancel

  • (will not be published)
Copyright © 2013 ThriftHorror - Things From Beyond the Bargain Bin: Monday, Wednesday, Friday, powered by Wordpress
7ads6x98y