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Frankie & Albert
Cost: $49.99/month
Ships To: United States
Coupon Code: N/A
My second month of Frankie & Albert arrived yesterday! I wasn’t thrilled with my first box from them, but I was anxious to see what my second month contained. As a general rule of thumb I give subscriptions three months before I decide if I want to keep it or not. It gives you a good feel for the subscription, what it includes, their shipping practices, etc.
Just in case you aren’t familiar with them (they are still fairly new), Frankie & Albert is a monthly subscription to receive handpicked Thrift store finds. Each month their team will handpick each treasure specifically for you and mail it directly to your home. They also offer a digital swap meet section in case you don’t totally love what you receive.
Frankie & Albert ships via USPS Priority Mail. This *should* just take two days to arrive, but it really took about a week. No idea what the delay was, but it seems to be the trend this month.
Frankie & Albert uses a ton of packing materials. They ship a lot of breakables, so in this case it’s a good thing.
This is one box you need to dig through to make sure you get everything out of the box. I could totally see missing something in all the packing materials in there.
Unlike the first box I received from Frankie & Albert, this one didn’t have individual information cards for each of the items. Instead the items had stickers on them with the codes you can use in the swap section. Speaking of the swap section, I cannot for the life of me figure out how to access it. I keep getting errors and it says I don’t have an account (which I obviously do or I wouldn’t be getting these boxes). I need to e-mail them about that. Anyway, here is what my March 2015 Frankie & Albert box contained:
~Ceramic (Porcelain?) Rooster Bell: Believe it or not, a ceramic rooster bell is one item I don’t own. Well, until now. And I love it! It reminds me of my Grandma. I feel like this is something she may have had in her china cabinet. So I am going to put this one in mine ;).
~Glass Bowl: I don’t know I will use this glass bowl for, but I’ll do something with it. It’s very pretty and I love the gold trim. Maybe I will use it to store jewelry in?
~Scenic Soup Bowl: I am assuming this is a soup bowl, but since there isn’t a card with a description I’m not totally sure. I did a search for “In an Old World Garden” and it turns out that this was a very popular line in the 1940’s. And that the colors were quite vivid on this originally. This one has faded a ton, but I can see why people liked this.
Since these are Thrift Store finds I couldn’t do a cost breakdown on this box. I received three items which works out to just under $17 per item. I liked this box better than last months, however, I think it’d be much more fun if this box had a price tag of $29.99 instead of $49.99.
Have you tried Frankie & Albert? What do you think? If you are interested in checking them out you can head here and see what they are all about! And I will make sure I update this when I figure out what’s going on with their swap site.
