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Goodwill shopping
If you have a Goodwill store near you now would be the time to start browsing it whenever you get a chance. Many merchants will donate prior to taking their inventory.Although not nearly as plentyful as last year, there are new items hitting the stores now. While I was there today I saw quite a few clothes with store tags attached (unfortunately nothing in my size), but I did get a Christmas gift(musical snow globe) for next year (new) and a new lampshade.
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I bought a beautiful wedding dress there for $30 for a play. I'm also using it if I were to ever get married.
Goodwill is awesome.
I bought my wedding dress at a second-hand store also and paid $25.00 for it. I just had to pay a few more dollars to have it altered. It turned out beautiful.
This thrift store is great, When I go into the ones around here I always find new items too --The family is starting to pick up on the idea too. Has any notice within the last year that the prices have gone up here. Jeans are now $7 here.
JoAnn
"Joy is not in things. It is in us"
The prices here are higher also. I love Goodwill I find a lot of nice things when I go. My husband loves going to look at the books. He usually comes out with a handful and for only a couple bucks!
Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.
Gotta love that store....I love going every chance I get. It's not to often I get to go, but I do love it when I can.
Tonia
Wisdom is doing now what you will be happy with later on.
All of our stores are higher as well even the consignment shops. When I found a pair of jeans at Target earlier this week for $8 I went ahead and bought them because used are the same price anymore.
I quit shopping at GoodWill and most Thrift Stores in the area after they discovered the Internet searches and started setting their prices with the higher prices they found there.
Yes they made more money for their organization and its projects, but it got to be unrealistic when people quit buying. One very nice Thrift store near me went out of business completely. Everyone loses.
I used to eat a lot of natural foods until I learned that most people die of natural causes.
But as long as you have the time to go searching, you can still find those great finds.. I like the book area also..And the craft materials they have at times (yarns are a great buy here)..
JoAnn
"Joy is not in things. It is in us"
a girlfriend and i make a day of going to the goodwill store 50 miles from here. the last time we went, in the begining of dec., i spent $250.00 and have a whole new wardrobe for myself and 7 pair of new jeans and lots of fleese for hubby! for me its like a treasure hunt! friends at work laugh at me as i call goodwill, "my mall", lol!
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