This Week's Theme: Antique

This week's Saturday Photo Scavenger Hunt theme is "Antique", and from my collection of thrift shop horrors, I present to you...

Chairs from Hell

The picture really doesn't do the horror of these justice. What's not clearly visible is the color. Imagine if you will, olive green chairs with crushed goldenrod velvet cushions. They're from another dimension. A dimension of console TVs and bad upholstery. There's the signpost up ahead. You've just crossed into "The Retro Zone".

A Rare Religious Artifact

LOOK! It's Icantciu, the ancient god of eyeless people!

At some point in time, someone actually bought this for their home. It boggles the mind.

Now, if you want to see some real antiques, click the link to the entry below:

Top Ten Reasons No One Takes Me to the Museum

A New Home for my Holiday Project

I've decided to give my holiday countdown project a home of its own. My collection of bizarre, tasteless, tacky and/or just plain horrific decor photos can now be seen here:

Deck the Halls with Holiday Horrors

Thrift Shop Horrors Revisited

The original Bride of Chucky?

Chairs from Hell

The picture really doesn't do the horror of these justice. What's not clearly visible is the color. Imagine if you will, olive green chairs with crushed goldenrod velvet cushions. They're from another dimension. A dimension of console TVs and bad upholstery. There's the signpost up ahead. You've just crossed into "The Retro Zone".

(To see more thrift shop horrors, click on the "Previous Posts" links on the right.)

LOOK! It's Icantciu, the ancient god of eyeless people!  

At some point in time, someone actually bought this for their home. It boggles the mind.

More Second-hand Horrors

He loves his Grandpa, but his Grandpa obviously doesn't love him. Grandpa donated him to St. Vincent de Paul, where he will sit forever, waiting for some pedophile with a cowboy fetish to buy him.

Bad Grandpa.

Used-to-Be Pets

Because every home needs its own Used-to-Be Pheasant. The Used-to-Be-Pheasant is easy to keep clean and makes a great pet for folks on a budget.

Used-to-Be Pets - the ideal gift for lazy people who are too cheap to buy pet food.

Second-hand Horrors

I'm not quite sure, but it looks like a Jesus and Moses Blue Plate Special. Would you believe they wanted eight bucks for this?

More from the Great Avocado Invasion of the 1970s

This is actually a set of metal canisters. Why anyone would want this in their kitchen beats the crap out of me!

The Great Thrift Shop Adventure

After years of talking about it, my sister Jean and I finally went to the St. Vincent de Paul Society Thrift Shop on Jericho Turnpike. It was a complete bust as far as finding bargains. I have never seen so much ugly, over-priced, second-hand crap.

Good thing I had my camera phone with me. The picture quality is lousy, but then so was the merchandise itself, like this lovely patio furniture set, in a lovely shade of avocado:

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