The Ultimate THRIFTING x ANTIQUING haul! (Plus how I STYLE everything i buy :)

Whoa! Today we are thrifting and antiquing because I decided I want to host the most elaborate, curated, fancy girl outdoor dinner event for my friends, and we need to find some treasures to make this magical event happen, and also some other random home decor stuff. We got a couple stops on the agenda, a special guest appearance, and at the end I'm going to style everything I find to give you some home decor ideas. Let's kick it! Wow! What a day to be alive! Where's camera? We're going antiquing and thrifting today. This is the deal. I'm gearing up for a little bit of a project, which will be another video, where I'm doing this like excessive, romantic, tented, candlelit, curated picnic for some of my friends. I think it's gonna be really freaking cute, like a really tasteful, romantic freaking picnic. It's gonna be great, and I wanted to do thrifting for some dishes. I love dishware. I love glassware. It's probably like my number one indulgence. I don't know anything to say for myself except that I love it, and I'm not gonna stop. I'm not working on this addiction. I'm not trying to, I'm not trying. I'm just, I'm just hunting. So here we go. I don't know what we're gonna find today. You never know what happens when you're thrifting. One time I got a bed, my bed, where I'm pretty sure something about the vibe made me think. I was like, is this guy getting rid of evidence? He did, because he told me someone died in that bed. I've talked about this before, but something about it. He was like so nice. He was so nice, and then he went into Home Depot on his own dime, bought me straps to attach to my roof, and then spent like 30 minutes attaching this bed to the roof of my car, and he was so nice, and he was only selling the bed for a hundred bucks, and then he told me someone died in the bed, and I was like, oh, he's getting rid of evidence, and actually I feel like that is kind of a genius move, you know, when people are like, how would you get away with murder? I'm, I'm always thinking about that. You know, some people are like, oh, I'd use an ice pick because the weapon melts. Like, okay, well, you have a very limited season in which you can do it, but I feel like you sell the murder accessories. You can't really toss it down the river. Things like wash up, or they float. There's not that many ice picks around, so I feel like a really good solution, if you have to, if you have to, you know, it's not an ideal scenario, but if you have to murder someone, is just sell all of the accessories on Facebook Marketplace. So, welcome to the vlog. Okay, I've pulled up to the unique thrift store in Silver Spring, Maryland. That's stop number one. As, as with all thrifting, same as with dating, you have to go in with zero expectations. Expect to mostly find trash, and then if you find a treasure, oh, I think you're lucky stars. Let's go. There's a cutie. Okay, this guy, not my personal preference of artwork, I'll take that out, but very nice wood frame. I'll probably clean it up with like a little wood stain. Basically, if I see a nice dark wood frame, I always get it. You don't want to overlook your frames. These are really good to label things in case you don't know where you are, and you know. You wake up in the morning, you say, where am I? Oh, I know. Kind of a pretty little set, and I got, I found another. I like these. I like them. I love like a colored flute glass. There's only two, but I do like these a lot. Oh my god, I found a third. Oh, happy day. Sweet. I came away with four of these very nice wood square frames. So, to me, that's very successful. I feel like whenever you have a specific piece of art that you need a frame for, then you can never find a frame. So, if I just see a good frame, I get it, and the art will come. Now, we're gonna head over to an antique store, which I haven't been to yet, and I feel very excited about. I think it's called like Howard's Antiques. I immediately just like the look of this place. It's a big industrial building. Let's go. Oh, I love this. Oh my god. I love this little guy. Wow. What did you call it? A cruet? Okay, love this. This is a little antique lighter, and I have gotten one of these antique lighters before, and if you take it into like a cigar shop, you can actually get these working. A lot of the antique ones. This place is amazing. A plus. I'm not even gonna have enough time to go through everything. I like this a lot. I like anything that has like a really unique shape to it. Oh, I like this little guy a lot. It's a little wet, but I'm really into the kind of like silver serving platters right now. I also have to go to the bathroom, which is always tricky when thrifting. Let me use your bathroom. Found something fun in the bathroom. This is a piece of artwork called My Cups, and I believe that is a brassiere and a memory. Wow. Okay, big fan. West Howard Antiques in Kensington, Maryland. Big fan. Did I find the things I was looking for? Like, no, but that's not how antiquing works. Very excited about this guy. Needs a little cleaning up. Immediately saw him. I was like, oh, what a fun weirdo little vase. It sits like this, and then the man told me that it's actually, I can't remember the word he said, but it's for olive oil. I might need a little stopper if I use it for olive oil. Could use it for olive oil. This would be the coolest olive oil ever. Can you imagine this? Can you imagine that? But also might just use it as a vase. I love this little weirdo. Love a vase. I got one cute little piece of serving ware for my picnic, so that's good. I did a good job, and then I did end up getting... I do think it's really nice to have like a nice, cute, beautiful version of like the everyday items that you're using, touching, handling, tools, whatever. I always have like those cheap, you know, 7-Eleven lighters, and they're just hideous, but this is also like a little sculptural piece of decor. I am gonna need to get it up and working, up and running, but I've taken these to like cigar stores before, and they can usually like set you up with the right lighter fluid you need and make sure like the whatever it's called is working, or if you know a good stoner, they can usually do it too. Also, great prices for an antique store. I think all three of these together was like $40, and last time I bought an antique lighter, it was like $60 just for that. I'll definitely be back. Okay, now I'm going home. This week has been like bizarrely stressful, and I know that 9 out of 10 doctors say that thrifting is nature's stress reliever, but you know, sometimes I feel like I need something more, and if you're not taking Ritual's Stress Relief Supplement, here's all the hot goss you need to know. Thank you to Ritual for sponsoring a portion of this video. Ritual Stress Relief is a once-daily supplement designed to help reduce stress. 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What is that quote with the Supreme Court talking about the definition of pornography? They're like, you know it when you see it. Anyway, I think it's the same with finding the right dishware. Okay, I wasn't going to film unless I found good stuff. And I've already seen so much stuff that I need a cart. So we've got the cart. I'm ready. Wow, that was shockingly successful. I got two large serving pieces. Hello, let me in. Six beautiful scalloped edge plates, three or four pieces of smaller serving ware, a beautiful like glass engraved picture. All of that altogether, that was $96. I could have paid if I bought new, I could have paid more than $96 for a single casserole dish from like, you know, William Snowmer or something. Or like food 52. I love so much stuff on food 52. And sometimes I buy stuff from there. But also it's like $300 for like a cup that doesn't come with a saucer. Wow, I think I just got like, like nine beautiful pieces. Sometimes I forget about thrifting or like I don't forget about it. But sometimes I go through phases with thrifting where I'm like, not finding things I like at all. And I'm like, why do I spend all this time and drive out to the grocery store to find dirty things that are trash. And then sometimes it hits so good. I think thrifting and I are we're in a good spot right now. We're like in a good period. Great rec from Molly. Okay, hello. Yes, I tried to cut my bangs and it didn't go that well. We're moving on. Justin and I are on a family beach trip in Rehoboth, Delaware. And we thought we'd do a little bit antiquing out here. I like to kind of do some antiquing out outside of the big cities because I think that's where you get the best finds. And sometimes find the strangest places. The strangest places. Yeah, this place looks like such a kookamamie so far. It really looks like it's like run down and taken over by the wild. There might be the remnants of like a an old carnival in there. An old carnival? I hope so. Okay, you want to go inside? Yeah. Let's go on an adventure. Oh, it's Justin. That's your butt. Justin, look what I found. Oh my god. Oh my god. Wow, we're home. We're here. It's happening. Oh my god, I'm looking at them. I'm gonna need to be left alone with these plates for a little while. Don't look. Look at what I do. Oh my god, Justin. Oh my god. Come on. Oh, I like that. Come on. What the hell? Oh my goodness. I like that. Okay, I like the look of this a lot, but it's a little like thicker. I don't like the feel of it that much. It's a little like thicker and heavier than I would like. But it's cute. Oh, that's really sweet. Show them what you found. We found the sibling of your hanging cast iron pan, which similarly won't hurt you. Why? Would it ever be used? No. Yeah, I know. I don't need one. But they're really cute. They are sweet. Did you find any cute pots? I like this guy. Oh, that is cool. But I've got a lot of small bowls now. I don't know if I really need more small bowls. Do you think I need more? Yes. Yeah. I saw this like brightly colored thick glass. It's like depression wear. It was like mass-produced herniated gray depression that was often given away like for free with as like an incentive with different things. So many small things. So little time. What's going on? There's some really cool things over here. Check out this boat. Oh, I love old boats. Remember Pearl Harbor? Wow. That's pretty cool. Remember Pearl Harbor? Wow. Is it a particular thing? It's just some random. Oh yeah, I think you're totally right. They have cool like letter openers. Oh wow. That's neat, right? U.S. Capitol one's fun. Got a lot of these. These are some antique like bird prints. I think it could be cool to do a set of these and like frame them in a matching set of frames. I really like doing a set. And then I'm doing the subscriber room makeover and I'm gonna I have some cool art pieces but I also just need a bunch I can play around with that are like more neutral like not too opinionated. So it's a very basic landscape painting print but I do like it. It's not super super interesting. It's not very offensive. I'm gonna have some more interesting art pieces for sure but like you know you might just need some to like fill a space or whatever. I think this one's kind of a cool moody landscape. And then I also saw this. I just like this little print of Wailers of the Midnight Sun. I don't know. I like that. That's not nice. Where'd I leave my purse? Oh I really like this painting. I'm not here for paintings. I'm not here for paintings. Oh my god. Shut the f**k up. Oh my god. Oh my god. Oh no. Oh no. I love that. Oh I love it. Oh I gotta walk away. I gotta walk away. I do like some of these old postcards. Are they written on? I love what people wrote to each other. Yeah. 1909. Hello Roger. How are you by this time? I feel fine. Thought I would write you as you said for me too. Please excuse pencil as I'm in school now. Emma. Why pencil? Because she's in school. She can only use pencil? Presumably yeah. She only had pencil in school. I like that it has a different pattern. Good baby. Put some nuts. I like too much. Yeah. I think we have a winner. I don't know if I'm obsessed with this on its own but I think I'm gonna like how it's layered with other other patterns. I think it's gonna be weird. I really think I can make this weird. What do you think about that? What do you think about what? Show them. Not bad. Should I get a baby on top? Yeah. There's a baby. A little baby mole on top. I like the slightly scalloped edge. I was gonna say they all have like a nice little texture. Oh look at this. Look at my pie dish. Oh that's cool. I really like the milky green. Yeah. That's cool. I like that. Okay. I like this. I think that's fun. I think they're fun. Oh I think they're weird. Yeah. I think they're really weird. Okay so we got that. Okay I got some loot. I got some loot. Again don't. These bangs. Can you believe I cut them myself? Can you believe that? Okay we've lost Justin. I promise I did not make him come on this thrifting trip. He had a great time. He had a great time. Okay but he needs to go inside and take a nap. So stop number one. I continued with the silver train and got this little silver platter. I don't even know what I'm gonna put in here. I don't even know. Could be something I need to keep a little bit hot and a little bit secret. I think that's really sweet. Oh and then I got this one little pink bowl. It's just a random random old bowl. Oh it's getting hot in this car. I got a little gift for my friend who is getting married and she's obsessed with like seashells in the beach. Molly if you're watching this you need to turn away. Turn away. But I've been keeping an eye out for like little seashell themed things to give her as part of a wedding gift and I found this little like wrought iron seashell hook for like a purse or a coat. But she loves seashells. She's getting married and she's a designer. I talked about she loves antiquing so I know she's gonna love antique gifts. So got part of a little wedding gift. I'm gonna have to bulk it up with some more things. I also got these prints. Got my whale. I got this moody guy. I think these were just torn out of an art book it looks like. What is this? What is this? Oh I got a set of these bowls which I they're English rose chintz. I got a set of like eight of these and I think on their own they're very English. Very like frilly English like if I if I wasn't careful these would easily go into like a shabby chic like cottage which is not the look I'm going for. But I'm going to modernize them by pairing them with like a bright my bright and like almost neon-y green plates and a very modern tablecloth and I'm going to pair them with things that are very modern and this does not feel very modern. It's a like a surprising choice and so I think the combo I think it's going to be really original and cute. It's not what I was picturing when I went out when I was like searching but I think it's like more more surprising it's a more surprising choice than I was initially picturing and that is fun to me. I like I do like to you know it's a little surprising and then I got a set of the larger plates. It's going to be stacked. It's going to be this and then a more modern dish in between and maybe a small bowl on top. It's going to be cute as hell. Oh I got my pie dish. I think you guys saw the pie dish and then I got these. These are really important. These are really important. They're just little glass ladybugs. Maybe I can put them up on my steering wheel. Beep beep beep. These serve no purpose but um I think I'm going give them give them each to a friend. My little sister Julia is going to love one. I give one to my mom. One for me and then I'll give one maybe to my friend Ashley. Beep beep beep. I've accidentally begun to collect tiny little animals on my bookshelves at home. There's like a tiny little fox figurine that Justin gave me and then there's also a tiny little little pink duck. I went on this like weekend trip with my siblings and I was sharing a room a hotel room in Richmond with Elizabeth and Luke and Luke was like changing or unpacking his suitcase or something and he reached in a pair of shorts and just pulled out a small duck. He just had like a small duck on him and he was gonna leave it there. He was like oh I don't even need this duck. I had no explanation about the duck um but I was like I want that duck. I just love that he just like pulled a small pink duck out of his pocket like this big and like he had nothing to say about it. Okay so I got those. I think I'm gonna lay out the thrifted items at home for y'all to Apparently the ladybug is the state bug of Delaware. I didn't know states had a state bug but state bug. State bug.