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Forget <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0302886/quotes">Home Depot, the wall paper and the flooring</a>. Don't even dare waste your Saturday at Bed, Bath and Beyond. There's something much more interesting to do in Tulsa with your Saturdays: a stroll through <a href="http://www.exposquare.com/index.cfm?id=8&amp;init_calendarID=294">Tulsa Flea Market</a> at Expo Square.

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Tulsa Flea Market, where a person can find odds and ends ranging from vintage firearms to antique furniture to purebred puppies (yes, puppies), is held each Saturday from 8am-4pm in the lower level of the 448,400-square-foot QuikTrip Center.

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Did you know that the QuikTrip Center is one of the largest clearspan buildings in the world? It's true. It's provides 354,000 square feet of space, unadulterated and column-free.

Which is exactly how I like my flea markets - unadulterated and column-free.

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And Tulsa shoppers and treasure hunters sure know how to make use of that kind of room.

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I'm not going to try to show you everything we saw on our most recent trip to Tulsa Flea Market, but I will walk you through so that you can get a taste of what to expect.

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Bar sets and ice buckets of days gone by.

I'm still kicking myself for not snagging these two things, by the way. Most of the time being frugal is a wonderful thing, but sometimes I'm too cheap for my own good.

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Old padlocks.

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Oh, my heart.

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Lots...

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and lots...

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and lots of tables and shelves full of random knick knacks.

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And delicate vintage lady things. At 50 percent off.

Can I just say it again? Oh, my heart.

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And jewelry.

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Lots of it.

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It's hard to make a trip to Tulsa Flea Market and not get inspired.

Pretty much anything that's aqua and yellow inspires me. That's just how I am.

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Pretty much anything that's quilted inspires me, too.

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I love looking at the tiny little stitches on old quilts and trying to imagine the life of the person whose hands labored over such minute, skillful work.

I love quilts. Honest, I do. I studied them for two years in college. I wrote my undergraduate thesis about them. I want to own many, many, many of them.

And so you've just learned something about me today that you probably didn't know before. Lucky you!

I think.

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Boots! Old ones.

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Old tobacco canisters sporting designs that I want to blow up and hang on my dining room walls.

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One day I want to start an ashtray collection. I don't smoke, but I like ashtrays. And I don't know why.

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My son had no interest in this whatsoever. And I cried a little inside about that.

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If I'm gonna continue to be an Oklahoma housewife, I'm gonna have to take up collecting rooster-themed things. It's practically a requirement of the occupation.

At least now I know where to start my search for the rooster-themed things that are right for me.

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A Gray Wolf stein. ULTIMATENESS.

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I want this.

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And...I just had a heart attack. Goodbye, world.

Because if someone grabs this 1927 set of eight place settings of Paul Revere silver before I do, then this life just ain't gonna be worth livin'.

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And then there's...that.

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Cabbage Patch Kids! Naked ones. Which were of less trading value than naked Barbie dolls when I was a kid, but still.

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Would you like fries with that wake-up call?

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Look! Someone snagged an old unicycle.

Lucky.

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Old pin-up calendars from the 1950s. How cool are those?

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I need this phone. It could be like the TDT def-con phone - call only when extremely bored and you don't know what to do about it.

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I now own this. It's made a fine addition to my collection of reference and advice books from the '50s and '60s.

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There's even something for the kids at Tulsa Flea Market. Many things, actually.

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Toys and books and candies...

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...and innocent, blurry puppies, all ripe for the terrorizing.

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Have you ever shopped Tulsa Flea Market? What's your all-time favorite flea market find? What's the strangest thing you've ever found at a flea market? I'd love to hear all about it in the comments.

<strong>Tulsa Flea Market</strong>
When: 8am-12pm every Saturday
Where: QuikTrip Center at <a href="http://www.exposquare.com/">Expo Square</a>, on 21st Street between Harvard and Yale Avenues