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Art & Artifacts: Fantastic Repousse Silver Bowl
Ooohhh, shiny things! This was a surprise. It is a Burmese repousse* silver ceremonial bowl. Often these were used for making offerings during “merit making” ceremonies and may have also included...
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What Is It? The 1920′s Edition
This one is pretty easy so it’s going to be a speed round. You have until 10am tomorrow to enter, best guess wins a prize and all* that sort of thing. It is wood and metal, and is about 5 1/4 inches...
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What Is It? The 1920′s Edition Answer Round
Welcome to the answer round for our most recent edition of What Is It? I’m surprised but no one guessed the ‘correct’ answer. This is a fruit corer, in particular a corer for grapefruit. With some...
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TONIGHT! Art & Artifacts: Old School Le Creuset
Special for our upcoming Art & Artifacts special sale we have a nice set of vintage Le Creuset. There is an open roasting pan and a dutch oven. These are different than the usual Le Creuset. Most...
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Words Of Wisdom
A former volunteer and great friend recently said to me about writing: “Once it becomes a should instead of a want, you might as well pay your insurance premiums and scrub your toilet instead.” It’s...
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Art & Artifacts: Two Days On
Whew… All those weeks of preparation result in a flurry of activity and then . . . silence. On Friday night we held another installment in our annual Art & Artifacts special sale/open house...
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Closed For Veteran’s Day
Each year we as a nation honor those who’ve served in our armed forces. In keeping with this we will be closed for Veteran’s Day. Thank You.Filed under: Announcement
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Support The Community Warehouse Via The Give Guide, Get Swag!
Community Warehouse has been selected (for the 6th year running) for Willamette Week’s Give!Guide!! Today’s special: If you donate $10 or more via the Willamette Week Give Guide, you will be entered...
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What It Is. The Answer Round.
We asked you what the red handled object above was. The ‘correct’ answer’ as given by Gail is that this is a vintage ‘rug machine’ tool (it’s made for hooking rugs; the yarn goes in the top down...
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Happy Thanksgiving
As you might expect, we are closed today. And because we can, we are closed tomorrow, Friday too. In the spirit of the day though we have this large iron birdcage. it’s in good condition but empty as...
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Bike Tuesday!
1. It’s #GivingTuesday, 2. It marks the halfway mark of the Give!Guide, 3. AND IT’S A BIG GIVE DAY! You could receive a new Trek Allant 7 bicycle for donating a minimum of $10 to nonprofits that...
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A Good Characterization
In a recent Season of Sharing column in the Oregonian the Community Warehouse was described as an “ingenious and resourceful non-profit.” That’s actually a good characterization of us. We’re pretty...
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Win Rogue Spirits Via The Give Guide
Today if you donate via the Willamette Week Give Guide you can win a case of spirits from Rogue Distillery. C’mon, do it. Even if you’re a teetotaler (especially if you’re a teetotaler?) because I...
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A Quick View Of The Tualatin Location
I’ve been neglecting the great inventory at the Tualatin location and the last time I was there the camera battery was on the verge of dying. So I snapped off a couple quick pictures and a short video...
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SALE! PORTLAND ESTATE STORE & GARAGE SALE!
We’re having a sale. Why? We’re remodeling AND it’s the end of the year. December 19th to 23rd. 50% off everything in the Garage Sale 20% off everything in the Estate Store. Filed under: Announcement,...
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First Annual End of Year Sale at the Tualatin Store!
Please join us for our First Annual End of Year Sale. ‘Tis the season to give (big discounts). December 19th to 23rd. 50% off everything in the Garage Sale 20% off everything in the Estate Store. The...
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Portland Stores Closed For Holidays & Remodeling December 24th to January 1
Say “Good bye wall.”“Good bye wall.” So things are going on around here. Using the chance provided by holiday closures we’re doing a bunch of remodeling. The warehouse floors are getting a coat of...
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Progress!
Let’s tear down this wall… The counters are out and have mostly survived. Once we deal with water and electricity and communications lines the wall will be ready to come out. uhh ohhh….This should be...
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Free Box! NOW ALL GONE!
GONE GONE GONE! In concert with ‘the wall project’ we’re doing some New Year’s house cleaning . . . so we have several boxes of FREE Garage Sale treasures our Eastside retail location! On the Shaver St...
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Booo Yah!
Before I built a wall I’d ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offence. Something there is that doesn’t love a wall, That wants it down. Down goes the wall!...
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