#second-hand

[rickssecondhandfinds]

Clocks 🥰 🕰️

23/Mar/24

#i love them #clock #clocks #retro #vintage #market finds #second-hand #secondhand #second hand #alarm clock #alarm clocks

[liminalmemories21]

Lim! It’s me! I request 8 please 🥺

So, umm, I got a little carried away?

There'd been a shelf of cookbooks in the condo, before it burned down.  Cookbooks that Carlos had bought when he was in college and experimenting with learning how to make Indian food and Thai food and pasta from scratch, books he'd bought at school fundraisers and church Christmas markets, books he'd been given as housewarming presents when he moved into the condo.  

When he moved into the loft he realized that Carlos had never replaced them, and even though Carlos hadn't left a space for them in the kitchen, he felt like he could see it anyway, where they would have sat.

He goes on a quest after that.  Some of them are easy to replace from alibris or bookfinder: the 1964 edition of the Joy of Cooking - because apparently the new edition had fucked around with all the recipes, Carlos's words, not his, and he'd stared at Carlos shocked when he'd said it because Carlos doesn't swear all that often unless he's in bed; a soup cookbook from some celebrity chef from the 90s that he's seen Carlos make exactly two recipes out of; a copy of the Silver Palate cookbook that someone at work had given him at a holiday gift exchange.

The church cookbooks and Junior League cookbooks are harder to find, and he takes to scouring second hand bookstores and antique stores and thrift shops on his days off when Carlos is at work.  Sometimes he drags Nancy or Marjan or Paul with him.  

"Why are we doing this?" Nancy grouses once.  "I've never seen Carlos use a recipe for anything."

"That's not the point," he snaps, and Nancy backs off with sympathetic eyes.

And, it isn't.  The point is that this is something Carlos had lost that he could maybe give back.  He's never going to be able to replace the pie bird that Carlos bought at the farmer's market when he was 12, or the old wooden rolling pin that had been his abuela's, worn smooth with time and use, or the butter molds his cousin Anna had brought him back from a trip to France.  But this, is something he can do.

It takes longer than he expects, and he ends up with more books than had been in Carlos's collection originally.  But he hadn't been able to resist them, the ones with cheery titles like "Nightingales in the Kitchen" and "Charlottesville: Cooking for Compliments", or the ones filled with someone else's handwritten edits that say things like 'never make this again' or 'add orange juice' or 'your husband will thank you'.

He meant to wait for Carlos's birthday, but he gets impatient, and packs them all in a banker's box and sticks a huge red bow on it, and makes brisket for dinner.  Carlos sniffs appreciatively when he comes home, and doesn't even notice the box on the table until he's coming back from hanging up his coat.

Carlos looks at him, clearly trying to remember if he's forgotten something, and he shakes his head.  "No reason, baby, just because."

"It's not a lizard is it?"

He snorts.  "I wouldn't do that to you, I promise.  You'll like this."

Carlos lifts the books out slowly, turning them over in his hand, stacking them up on the table.  He finally looks at TK.  'I had these at the condo."  He nods. "You bought them for me?"  He nods again, worrying his lip a little, suddenly nervous.  "Why?"

"You kept them, they meant something to you, they had memories for you.  I hate that you lost everything."  He waves a hand when Carlos starts to deny it, or point out that TK did too.  "I know, I was there too, I lost things too.  But, I'd only just moved in, I still had stuff at Dad's.  That was a home you built, and you lost it, and we don't talk about it."  He shifts on his feet, fidgeting with the couch cushion.  "We don't have to talk about it now, just, I wanted you to have something back."  He gestures around the loft. "You give me so much.  You deserve to have everything too."

Carlos kneels up on the couch, wrapping arms around him, kissing him breathless.  He smiles into the kiss.  "You like them then?"

"I love them."  Carlos kisses him again.  "I love you."  And then he pulls back to look speculatively at the kitchen.  "We'll have to rearrange some of the cups to make space for them."

#writing prompt #second-hand #tarlos #911 lonestar

[schibborasso]

vorzugsbehandlung (second-hand)

#second-hand #digital collage

[thatsbelievable]

#Tonight's Mood #emotions #moods #affirmations #E.M. Hasty #Second-hand

[thelibrarybat]

For this week's newsletter, a laid-back recap of a weekend I spent exploring Brighton's fashion scene. 🖤

#brighton #fashion #substack #newsletter #letters from the dollhouse #vintage #second-hand #upcycling

[kenleephotography]

Top 3 second-hand camera gear picks for savvy photographers

What are top three second-hand camera gear picks for you to purchase? And why is that? We discuss this and more. Cameras I’ll start with the big one first: Cameras. When camera manufacturers release new models, their older models invariably drop in price. However, this doesn’t mean older models are suddenly obsolete, or that suddenly, their image quality is bad. After all, National Geographic…

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#astroscape #camera #gear #long exposure #night photography #night sky #second-hand #used

[doyoueventhrift]

26/7/23

#thrift #thrifting #second-hand #thrift shop #charity shop #thrift shopping #plushies #soft toys

[cassiefairy]

How to make most clothes work for you when shopping secondhand

Even though it's so much better for the environment to shop secondhand, it can be difficult to find the right items for you when you head to the charity shops, so I've shared how to make most items work for your wardrobe...

I love to shop secondhand when I need to buy something new-to-me to wear for a special occasion, and it’s always a lovely idea to support charities while you shop. So, when I needed a dress for a wedding this month, I headed to my Nan’s favourite charity shop and was lucky enough to find the perfect dress for the occasion. It was the ideal floaty fabric, my favourite icy-blue colour, a pretty…

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#Blog #charity shop. charity #clothes #Clothing #couture #custom #customising #dress #fashion #outfit #Oxfam #reuse #rewear #second-hand #secondhand #Sewing #Shopping #trend #upcycling #Vintage

[arinewman7]

Second-Hand

Series by Zhanna Kadyrova

Digital printing on plexiglass, 2021

#Zhanna Kadyrova #art #artist #Digital printing on plexiglass #series #Second-Hand #2021 #Series by Zhanna Kadyrova

[lazylittledragon]

can't believe we're all adults being forced into the club penguin level of censorship in 2024

#ramble #if you say unalive in front of me i will personally kill you with my hands #you just can't muffle and censor and hold someone's hand through some things #some things are horrible. and they should be spoken aloud and they should upset you. because they are horrible #the second we started kidzbopifying the world was the end of taking anything seriously i think #i'm not even joking i've spoken to people older than me who won't even say the world sex #this isn't the playground you're not going to get in trouble just let us say the word!!!!!! #how am i supposed to listen to you when you won't even say the thing you're supposed to be talking about #yes this is the fault of the platforms with their censorship rules but the fact that we all just go along with it like it's not dystopian #you do know it doesn't stop with cursing right. people are already having to censor queer terms because they get flagged as inappropriate

[rickssecondhandfinds]

Some phones I found

23/Mar/24

#phone #phones #telephone #telephones #retro #vintage #market finds #second-hand #secondhand #second hand #tech #technology

[wasabi-gumdrop]

local ladies man’s signature move totally useless against autistic monster enthusiast. more on Kabru’s fumble era at 6

#i’ve seen so many interpretations of that 1 hr freeze frame of Kabru’s smile in ep 16 #he’s meeting his long time crush of course he’s trying to charm him #Kabru so obviously has a big fat giant crush on Laios #like atp in the story he’s tried to talk to him and get his attention so many times agjdjajdj #Laios is the human rubix cube he’s been searching for his entire life #everyone else is almost too easy for Kabru to pin down #Laios on the other hand … a treasure trove of autistic mystery #Kabru is so locked in #Kabru used signature move: charming smile #Laios: no effect! #there’s something so beautiful about the popular pretty boy entering his fumble era when his one true love turns out to be autistic #labru #laios touden #kabru of utaya #dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #wasabi rambles #seen so many clock that smile as nefarious and machiavellian #baby no Kabru is just dialing the charm up to 100 and what we’re all feeling is second hand embarrassment LMAO

[wolfleblack]

UK retailer GAME will stop accepting trade-ins, according to new report

According to a report by the folk at Eurogamer, UK retailer GAME will stop accepting trade-ins from next month, marking a massive shift for the business. Over the years GAME has been defined by the ability to trade-in your used physical games in return for store credit, but according to Eurogamer that long-running tradition will cease on February 16th. The news comes via staff members who…

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#game #News #second-hand #Trade-in #uk

[julochka365]

9/1.2024 - i found a plain little lamp for my bedside space and painted it to match the mural on the wall of the bedroom

#cactus #evidence of creativity #365 #bedroom #second-hand

[soupsandstars]

Reveal the path and grant me passage!

#simon petrikov #ice king #marcy for less than a second #this got out of hand #don't have time for clean up and color lmao #had fun though!

[memedreamm]

i don’t care about straight actors playing queer people in media all i care about is if theyre going to put their whole pussy into it. tom hardy of course ive had gay sex im an actor. keanu reeves and river phoenix going to gay clubs in seattle and making out in public. heath ledger almost breaking jake gyllenhal’s nose because he kissed him too hard. when will actors do this again. 

#if ure going to be gay put ur whole pussy into it sotp acting like protestants who can barely hold hands for 5 seconds #guess who watched mopi and brokeback mountain in the same day and has ruined their psyche #brokeback mountain #keanu reeves #my own private idaho