We’re Cuckoo for Cuphead
With the exception of a long-standing app addiction to The Simpsons Tapped Out, Valerie’s love of video games ended with her Atari 2600....
What do a bento box, metal penguin, and crystal decanter have in common?
They mean that Devon’s got a sharp eye. Devon’s shopped like a 20-something hipster since he was 6. At 14, he regularly spots things we...
A Souvenir of the Cold War
Things were tense globally at the time of the 1980 Olympic Games. It was the first Olympics held in a Slavic country, and also the first...
“@” a New Location
Before we started Unusual Offerings, Valerie spent 24 years working in NYC for one of the world’s largest independent global...
Kids’ Toys Were Annoying Then, Too!
Valerie bought this barking and walking poodle toy from the ’50s at a tag sale in the mid-90s, because it reminded her of a similar...
Sad to See It Go
This bottle washed up on a Cape Cod beach at Humarock when I was a kid and we were visiting friends; I think I was about 7 at the time....
Unusual Piece of the Week
When we picked this up at an estate sale in Connecticut, we thought it was a bell jar. It wasn’t until we got it home that we realized it...
Flea-Market Lessons
We’ve been selling at the Elephant’s Trunk Flea Market for six months now and have learned a great deal. The biggest consideration, oddly...
25,000 Hours of Light, It’s a ‘Shiny Brite’ Christmas
When I was a kid, our artificial Christmas tree looked as if it had been fabricated out of oversized bent green pipe cleaners; it was...
What do a plastic pig, a felt Christmas stocking, and a corduroy chicken have in common?
They spark my joy. As someone who has spent decades picking up goodies at tag and estate sales, I’m particularly sensitive to the “h”...
