Check Out The Thrifty Nickel Free Classified

Posted on January 30, 2012 by Thrifty Nickel

Mosey on over to the Thrifty Nickel Free Classified at OurThriftyNickel.com and check out the best deals from the Permian Basin compiled into one glorious cacophony of ads online.

Let us help you make your dreams come true. Have you alway wanted a vending machine for your living room so you could pack it full of your DVDs? That way you could get one at random almost every night and essentially have a RedBox (but a better one stocked full of everything you’ve ever wanted to see or everything you love already!) in the comfort of your own home! We’ve got it for you right here: SODA/SNACK VENDING MACHINE for sale. It has a bill validator and electronic display. Works great! Always kept indoors. 432-235-0185. Asking $2200, but will consider all reasonable offers.

If you’re an analog gal like myself, you could stuff that vending machine chalk full of VHS tapes. That way you could meander on down to your local thrift store and purchase a small, but formidable army of VHS tapes (usually a dollar or less each) you’ve never seen or heard of to create a VHS Vending Machine Roulette sort of game.

Perhaps you dream of eating the most lip-smacking, mouth-watering BBQ this side of the Mississippi. I can’t guarantee we can show you where that is, but we for sure can set you off on a trail leading to your ultimate goal. MR. BROOKS BBQ. Monday Thursday, 11am-5pm. Friday 11am 3pm & 5pm8pm CATFISH FRIDAYS. Saturday 11am 3pm. Like US On Facebook. Check in for Daily Specials. Owner Julius Brooks. Mangers Roland & Jason Brooks. 432-685-5079, Midland. Honestly, that sounds delicious. I want some, immediately.

Maybe your dream is to make someone else’s dream come true. Have you found yourself in over your head? With child and unable to bear the expenses and hardships that accompany it? HAPPILY MARRIED young couple (30’s) seeks to adopt and complete family. Full Time Mom/Devoted Dad. Financial security. Expenses paid. Please call Lenny & Cristina 1-888-537-5055.

Maybe you’ve been looking to lose yourself in an All American Pastime. Why not get some pals together and sign up for the SOFTBALL TOURNEY March 24th thru March 25th., Midland Texas. Prizes for the top 4 teams. Call TJ 432-352-3397 or email amayabarber_2012 @yahoo.com

Anything you want, we don’t have it, but we can show you where it is.

It could not be easier to advertise online with the Thrifty Nickel Free Classified. Just head to OurThrifyNickel.com and click the tab on the top of the page that reads Place An Ad! $5.75 for the first ten words, .40 cents per each additional word. One picture free with each ad! And because we love you and appreciate your business, we offer you a second week free when you place your ad online at OurThriftyNickel.com!

Head over as a buyer, register for an account and receive email alerts any time an item in your saved search field surfaces! We treasure hunt for you!

The Thrifty Nickel Wants YOU to Advertise Classified

Posted on January 29, 2012 by Thrifty Nickel

For over thirty years the Thrifty Nickel has brought deals to the permian basin. Now, the Thrifty Nickel is ready to bring the permian basin’s deals to all of Texas, and the rest of the world via the internet.

For those out there with treasure hunting, garage-e-ologic skills or any inclination towards the thrifty, OurThriftyNickel.com showcases a myriad of garage sales for you to peruse. We could even list your sale to entice other deal birds into your neck of the woods.

This week go on down to GARAGE SALE at 16166 Dogwood, Gardendale TX. Where sofa tables, dining room table,girls kids toys and clothes, artwork, patio table and much more abound. Friday 11:00-3:00; Saturday 8:30-12:00.

Maybe your yen for cheaper goods lies in a more specific arena. Perhaps you’ve been daydreaming of the perfect daybed. Go to our Furniture section on our website to browse over a dizzying amount of options! At first you think you only need a daybed until you see a COMPLETE BEDROOM Set for sale. Including a 5 ft. dresser with mirror, a chest of drawers, a twin with headboard, side tables. Include two glass top living room tables. All good condition. $400 package. Cash and carry. 432-296-8464. And you really can’t beat a deal like that.

Perhaps fine China floats your fancy. Someone posted a 136 PIECE Crown Victoria China. Love Lace Pattern. Worth $1,000, make offer. 432-550-4288. That’s an incredible deal. I might have to give that seller a call…

Maybe your budget is a bit tight (who’s isn’t these days?) and your refrigerator picked this month, of all the 100s of months it has had on this earth, to die. Check out the Thrifty Nickel online’s appliance section, providing you with plenty of options. Such as this MEDIUM LIKE New refrigerator, $175. 2 year old Maytag washer, $225. Side by side refrigerator, $295. Electric stove, $175. Whirlpool washer, $135. Free removal of unwanted appliances. 432-880-4812, Odessa.

Or perhaps you have no want for material goods but rather seek spiritual enrichment in the form of a FREE BIBLE STUDY COURSE. Who is God? What is his plan for me? Who is Jesus? Answer Questions from the bible, in this study Course. You may complete this study in the privacy of your own home, or you may call to study with a teacher. Please write to 6th & Jackson Church of Christ. 301 E. 6th St., Odessa, TX 79761. 432-332-0926. keepthefirelit@gmail.com

The other amazing thing about the Thrifty Nickel Online is that once you register you can set up a running search for any item you so desire. As soon as an item within your search paramaters appears on the site, you receive a wonderful email full of good news in your inbox!

Just go to OurThriftyNickel.com and register for an account. You can start selling today, or you can start buying today. Just get over there, TODAY!

Get Personal with Online Advertising

Posted on January 28, 2012 by Thrifty Nickel

Utilize the Thrifty Nickel’s personals online advertising section, find romance before it slips through your fingers.

While you were out running errands today, did you see someone special? Real special, I mean. Someone who makes your heart stop and palms sweat and inside you just know, this IS the real deal? But they walk past you and you realize you can’t just blurt out “I love you” and expect anything to come of it. Take the step you should have taken, write a personal ad to right your wronged footing.

We only get one chance to make a first impression, or so some say. I say that’s not fair. Momentary lapse in bravery should never stand between potential lovers. For centuries, personal ads have given people chances to rewrite that lackluster sentence-moment in their lives.

Sara Bader, in her amazing book Strange Red Cow, chronicles a good handful of phenomenal personal ads from as far back as the Civil War.

While many are signed in the hopes of love, some of these archaic personals serve as thank you’s. For example:

“THE LADY WHO LOST HER KING CHARLES’S SPANIEL near Union square, in Broadway, yesterday morning, tenders her most cordial thanks to the gentleman who so kindly volunteered to release him from the thief, and sympathies with the young man who was knocked down in the melee. — March 28, 1855 New York Herald.” (Bader 108)

Or as thanks in the form of a ringing endorsement:

“I HEREBY RETURN MY THANKS TO DR. H. A. DANIELS, of 221 Sixth avenue, near Fourteenth street, for skillfully removing without pain a large foreign substance from my ear, which had troubled me for a considerable time. I can fully testify to the doctor’s ability as a surgeon. GEO. BOWERYEM. — December 21, 1862, New York Sunday Mercury.” (Bader 109)

Or even as good riddance:

“X. Z. — IF YOU MUST HAVE A REASON why I refuse you, understand, then, that I canot marry a man who wears soiled linen, has foul teeth and breath, and uses tabasco and whisky. Faugh! GENERRA — November 16 1862, New York Sunday Mercury.” (Bader 109)

Man, Generra, a real straight shooter.

Do you have someone you’ve been meaning to get a message to, but you’re not sure where or how to contact them? Are you a scorned ex-lover who wishes to express your deep dissatisfaction with your detestable heartbreaker?

Place a personal ad on the Thrifty Nickel Online at OurThriftyNickel.com. Just click the tab on the top of the page that reads Place An Ad! You can click the personals heading underneath that. $5.75 for the first ten words, .40 cents per each additional word. One picture free with each ad! And because we love you and appreciate your business, we offer you a second week free when you place your ad online at OurThriftyNickel.com!

Let us help you find love through online advertising!

Use Classified Ads to Find Exactly What You Want

Posted on January 27, 2012 by Thrifty Nickel

Classified ads via the Thrifty Nickel can help you find whatever you may be looking for, no matter how ridiculous.

Missing one specific bowl in your amazing Pyrex collection? Who’s to say Ellen two towns over doesn’t have one she’s dying to get rid of? After all, her evil monster-in-law gave it to her before the divorce. She doesn’t need it. Would you rather place an ad describing the specifics of your niche object, or scour garage sales county wide for something that may not be there?

Placing a Wanted ad in the Thrifty Nickel at OurThriftyNickel.com is like having an extra thousand people accompanying you to garage sales and thrift stores, picking through piles of wreckage for your one treasured item. Except, by placing your ad, you automatically have access to items beyond typical garage and thrift sales. You’ve allowed your message to go directly into homes full of items that may store the very thing you seek.

Currently we’re helping people find exactly what they’re looking for, like this fellow:

BUYING VINTAGE Musical Instruments. Amplifiers, Guitars, Bass’s, Drums Any Band Instruments. 432-556-5760 or bring by 5904 W. Hwy. 80, Midland, TX. KEN’S RV SALES.

Just because the section is labeled Wanted: Have Cash Will Buy, doesn’t necessarily limit you to a monetary trade. You could barter with those other collectors who covet the items you’d like. After all, bartering and trading are our oldest forms of sale.

In Sara Bader’s Strange Red Cow, Bader collects classified ads from across the lands of time to illustrate the importance of archiving in historical understanding. She dedicates an entire chapter to Swaps, which essentially are olden day Wanted Ads.

“A VELOCIPEDE (a bicycle) WANTED IN EXCHANGE FOR dentistry; for one in perfect order first class work will be guaranteed. Address Dentist, Herald office. — April 22, 1869 New York Herald”

I’d say one well-tuned bicycle is absolutely worth a good amount of dentistry. It also illustrates the value of skills in trade. Perhaps for that comic book you just have to have for your collection, you could trade its owner some accounting, if that’s where your talents lie.

“SINGER OR DOMESTIC I want to exchange a Sewing Machine for a cheap boat, one suitable for a trip up Salt River in November. Also one for a second hand grocery wagon, and wanted to buy a light pair of wheels with pole for truck wagon. AH SIN, North Hope, Me. — October 18, 1892, Rockland Courier-Gazette (Maine)”

Sincerely, place a Wanted ad in the Thrifty Nickel Classified Ads. It could not be easier to advertise online than with the Thrifty Nickel. Just head to OurThrifyNickel.com and click the tab on the top of the page that reads Place An Ad! $5.75 for the first ten words, .40 cents per each additional word. One picture free with each ad! And because we love you and appreciate your business, we offer you a second week free when you place your ad online at OurThriftyNickel.com!

Happy hunting!

Thrifty Nickel Classifieds Presents Lost and Found!

Posted on January 25, 2012 by Thrifty Nickel

Thrifty Nickel Classifieds added a Lost and Found section to their incredibly convenient online web service over at OurThriftyNickel.com!

Have you misplaced your textbook? Perhaps left it on a table at McDonald’s when you were studying over a Big Mac and fries? Maybe sat it down on the seat next to you in the bus and forgot all about its existence? Place a notice in the Thrifty Nickel online! Perhaps a good samaritan picked up your quantum physics text, they would love to return it. We all know how expensive text books can be.

Did your pup fly the coop? Your chicken get out of the dog house? Search for them through the Thrifty Nickel Classifieds online. Throw out a wider net for your lost animals. Utilize the eyes of all who read the Thrifty Nickel. Place a lost and found ad today!

People lose things everyday. Some lucky people find things everyday. The Thrifty Nickel online provides a platform for exchange between the unlucky losers and the mysterious finders. For centuries the lost and found ad has resided in classified newspapers providing future generations with a survey of humanity through the remaining archives.

In Sara Bader’s fabulous book Strange Red Cow Bader compiles some of these fascinating lost and founds. While not all losts have a found, the ones that do instill within the reader the amazing sense of honesty and community that did and still does exist.

For example this lost ad was responded to within two weeks of placement:

“LOST, yesterday between the meeting-house in Worcester, and the road lading to Hardwick, a pair of SADDLE BAGS, containing a Cheese, some pulled Sheeps Wool, a number of Apples, a stripped small Apron, and a small pair of blue Stockings. Whoever has found the same, and will leave them at the Printing-Office in Worcester, or deliver them to me in Hardwick, shall be handsomely rewarded by JOSEPH BERNARD. Decem. 24th. — December 25, 1777, Massachusetts Spy or, American Oracle of Liberty

FOUND last week, a pair of SADDLE-BAGS, containing a number of Apples, and other valuable eatables &c. Enquire at Mrs. Jones’s inn-holder, Worcester. — January 1, 1778, Massachusetts Spy or, American Oracle of Liberty” (Bader 10).

Go on over to OurThriftyNickel.com, click Place and Ad, then click the Lost and Found tab. It really could not be easier to recover your belongings online than with the Thrifty Nickel. $5.75 for the first ten words, .40 cents per each additional word. One picture free with each ad! And because we love you and appreciate your business, we offer you a second week free when you place your ad online at OurThriftyNickel.com!

Make sure your lost items are found! Place an announcement in our classifieds and restore your faith in humanity!

Thrifty Nickel: DOUBLE SAVINGS

Posted on November 10, 2011 by Thrifty Nickel

The name Thrifty Nickel evokes our business’s full and explicit desire to help you pave your way down Savings Lane. Under a more scrutinizing glance, if you examine it through lenses of historical phraseology concerning nickels, the name foreshadows not only savings, but DOUBLE SAVINGS.

Arguably, the most commonly conjured nickel related phraseology manifests itself in the saying “nickel and dimed” (also spelled nickel-and-dimed). As a child, your parents teach you the value of money by giving you pocket change every now and again. One day, when you’ve fattened up your piggy bank and start to smell the bacon, you crack open Babe, count your coins and discover they turn into dollars. This, essentially, grounds the nickel-and-dime-ing concept. Any time, on a bill say, a hamburger joint tacks on up-charges to certain toppings. If you want cheese, it’s .79. For any of the following toppings: onion, lettuce, tomato, mushroom, bell pepper add .50 per topping. To add mayonaise, mustard or barbecue add .25.

When the patron sees these extra charges on the menu, all individually, they sound reasonable, a nickel here, a dime there. So you get a burger, fully loaded. Added up, the up charges practically equal the price of a second plain, but juicy and delicious burger. That’s nickel and diming.

Nickel and dime may also mean “small time.” Anything that was “nickel and dime” anchored the opposite end of the “big money” spectrum.

Even lower down on the aforementioned spectrum than “nickel and dime” lies “not worth a plugged nickel,” which means completely and utterly worthless.

In the days of early monetary circulation, mints pressed larger value coinage out of precious metals like gold or silver. People would plug these coins, or remove their centers, then replace the center with a less valuable metal. The nickel, made from a copper-nickel alloy of low enough value to widely disburse as a nominal denomination, clearly lacks enough value to merit plugging. Therefore, if anyone had a plugged nickel it would be even less than a nickel. So, worthless.

There’s also the warning, “Don’t take any wooden nickels.” A saying circa the Civil War used as a parting warning about dealings with Yankees in the South. Another Southern nickel saying, less appropriate for the topic of Thrift, but hilarious insult, is “She looks like she’s been beaten with a sack of nickels.” But hey, she could look like she’d been beaten with a sack of pennies.

Therefore we, at the Thrifty Nickel, not only aim to save you money, but we even want you to save all the way down to your nickels, a coin traditionally utilized in phraseology as synonymous with near worthlessness.

Head on over to our American Classified’s website at OurThriftyNickel.com, place in ad in six easy steps! Simplify your life and save today!

Remember, Thrifty Nickel– DOUBLE SAVINGS!

Basin BBQ Blowout!

Posted on October 13, 2011 by Thrifty Nickel

The Odessa Chamber of Commerce will be throwing a gigantic BBQ blowout October 19-20! Each team of entrants will be competing for title of Best BBQ in the Permian Basin. For more information on attending or joining in the competition please call (432)332-9111.

Attendees have the opportunity to buy into a raffle for a custom made BBQ cooker mounted on a trailer, valued at over $10,000! What an addition such a prize would make to any family cookout or work bash!

Proceeds go to keeping commerce dues low, as well as to government works programs in the Basin! Help your local government give back to you! And eat some delicious meat in the process!

For more information go to The Our Thrifty Nickel from Odessa and Midland Texas.

Four Easy Ways to Advertise

Posted on October 13, 2011 by Thrifty Nickel

Thinking about selling your truck? Your antique jewelry? Some exercise equipment you never got around to using? A dinette set? Place an ad with us!

Scoot on over to our website at www.ourthriftynickel.com to place an ad at your leisure, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Try it out! $5.75 for the first ten words, .40 cents per each additional word. One picture free with each ad! And because we love you and appreciate your business, we offer you a second week free!

For those who prefer a human touch for your business interactions, feel free to call in and place an ad. Our helpful and friendly staff are available starting at 8:15 every day of the week. Monday, Wednesday and Thursday our phone transactions and business locations shut down at 5 PM, Tuesday at 6 PM and Friday at 4 PM.

For the Odessa office place your calls to: (432)333-4184

For the Midland office dial: (432)580-7777

If you’re out on the town running errands already, we’re conveniently located at 2611 N. Golder, Odessa TX, 79761. That address works for mail-in ads as well!

All non-internet ways you can place ads glean you a free week also! Two paid weeks, the third week free!

We look forward to seeing or hearing from you, but most of all we look forward to bringing business to you!

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