Yesterday was thrift store day.
First stop, our {favorite} local shop which shall remain nameless because after an incident yesterday, it is no longer our favorite shop. It was my go-to place to donate items and now I will no longer be donating our stuff there. They do good things with the profit they make off their donations and it’s a small shop mostly run by volunteers. So that’s why I will not coughing up the name.
Here’s what happened.
Monkey Boy, he wear expensive boots for work. As in $150 steel toe boots. He pays for them, not me, so I have no say in the matter. It’s his money, right? As a parent you can only give money saving tips so many times to your kids before you realize you are wasting your breath and that some day, when they are living on their own or have a family to support, their tastes will probably change and they will no longer choose the $150 boots, but the $75 ones that work equally as well instead. Whateva. Moving on….
The Girl and I walk into the local thrift store with 2 pairs of work boots. I went back and asked the assistant manager of the store if she was interested in the boots as a donation. Yes, the laces were gone and they were used, but they still had plenty of life left in them for someone who needed a pair of quality steel toe boots. Did she want them? Did she think she could resell them?
Yes, she said, and took the boots.
The Girl and I browsed for a bit. My daughter didn’t see anything she liked and so she walked out to the car. On her way to the car she walked by their dumpster, looked in, and saw both pairs of boots we had just donated sitting at the bottom of the dumpster.
When I walked out to the car I noticed her standing by the dumpster and asked her what was wrong.
“THEY threw away his boots!”
“What?”
Sure enough, they were in there.
So, I climbed into the dumpster, grabbed the boots, handed them to The Girl, she put them in the car and we drove off. I was BEYOND furious.
Thrift store #2
I scored a pair of practically new DKNY Jeans for $5, a grey sweater for $2 and this a Prana black sweater dress for $5. Oh happy day. It only reinforced my belief that if you wait long enough, you can always find what you’re looking for at a price you are willing to pay. Brand new those jeans retail for about $50, the sweater $20, the dress $99. $169 vs $12? Or 93% off? I’ll take that kind of deal any day of the week.
Thrift store #3
The girl found a pair of True Religion Jeans {that fit her perfectly} for $9.99. She was thrilled.
Thrift stores. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, and sometimes, they throw your donations in the trash.
~Mavis
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