Re: [Paddlewise] Fashion Sense

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 11:47 PM, Doug Lloyd <douglloyd_at_shaw.ca> wrote:

>  Goodwill? Not so much for me.
>
> My daughter, the Goodwill queen, can regularly find exotic clothing even at
the dinky little Goodwill store here in Moses Lake. My merino wool clothing
comes from her visits to the store. North Face clothing is a regular item.
She has also bought entire Lego collections for $4.99!

I have about 1,000 hard back books in my library (an actual room in our
little lake house) - some of them signed first editions - and 95% of them
were bought for between 99 cents and $2 at Goodwill, Value Village or
Salvation Army. I started the library when we lived on the farm to give our
kids a research resource (pre-Internet) and it just kept growing. I've told
my wife that when I die she should get an appraiser in to assess the value
of the collection. It includes everything from archaeology to zoology and
includes about 200 science fiction works.

Sue and I equipped a Boy Scout Troop with cross country skis for less than
$100. We regularly take the neighborhood kids ice skating and have enough
skates to fit all of them because we would buy them when we saw them;
usually for under $6..

The walls in our living room are decorated with original (not prints)
artworks including two original (signed) photographs of sailing ships in
Puget Sound with explanations on the back of what ship, where it was from,
where it was when it was photographed and the date and time! It's amazing
the things people donate to thrift stores. I found so many over the past 25
years that I could actually make a theme in the living room (boats and
water). Pam even found an original watercolor of a kayaker at a Goodwill
store in Puget Sound country.

You should see the computer books at Salvation Army in Redmond, WA (home of
Microsoft).

If you don't shop thrift stores, you are missing out!!!  :)


Craig Jungers
Moses Lake, WA
www.nwkayaking.net



Shopping at a thrift store is more like an exploration than a shopping trip.
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