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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SBSVC, post: 260914, member: 136&quot;]I&#039;ve mentioned here before that I have never been to a thrift store (or a yard sale... tag sale... garage sale...) Well, I still haven&#039;t been to a yard/tag/garage sale, but <b>I went to a THRIFT STORE today!</b></p><p><br /></p><p>I know, I know... No big deal to most of you - but it sort of WAS for me!</p><p><br /></p><p>I drove my daughter to visit a friend who&#039;d just had a baby. I dropped her off in a town with which I&#039;m not the least bit familiar, and I had 2 hours to kill while they visited.</p><p><br /></p><p>There was a grocery store... a dollar store... a sporting goods store. Nope. A CVS, a laundromat, a GUN store! (Nope to all...) A library. Closed...</p><p><br /></p><p>Then, sitting back off the road, there it was: a Goodwill store!&nbsp; Oh, heck, thought I... Why not???</p><p><br /></p><p>Well, it was quite an experience! To me, the place reeked of BO and dirty feet (LOTS of old clothes &amp; shoes!) but I spent a <i>huge</i> chunk of my time-to-kill looking at everything else. Wow.</p><p><br /></p><p>Okay, so I spent a whole $11 in there (including &quot;rounding up&quot; to an even dollar amount, with the difference going to Veterans&#039; causes) and I was blown away!</p><p><br /></p><p>The stuff I collected to purchase added up to somewhat more than that $11, but apparently, if something had a certain color sticker on it, it was 50% off...&nbsp; Then, the guy at the register asked, &quot;Senior discount?&quot; (I was so taken aback that I didn&#039;t even answer him, but he apparently applied that, too! If their &quot;seniors&quot; age is 65, I didn&#039;t qualify, but if it&#039;s 60, I&#039;ll take it!)</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, I bought a brand new (in the box) Calphalon teakettle (that matches my pots &amp; pans.) It&#039;s just like the one shown here that Amazon&#039;s selling for around $44:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]81596[/ATTACH]</p><p>I also bought a Calphalon lid for my smallest saucepan, which didn&#039;t come with a lid.</p><p><br /></p><p>I got these pewter cat pushpins, which I&#039;ll give to my son&#039;s GF, if I decide I can part with them. They were unopened; <i>I</i> opened the package:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]81597[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I bought a small yellow Chinese dish (I have a thing for Chinese yellow porcelain), a little Belleek votive holder, a Waechtersbach/Germany Christmas mug (I have MANY, but not with this design)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]81604[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]81605[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><u>plus</u> four 20-yard rolls of unused, 1&quot; wide Offray grosgrain ribbon, 8 cream soup spoons in my STAINLESS pattern, a glass and stainless syrup pourer like this one:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]81609[/ATTACH]</p><p>and SEVERAL other, equally NOT-ANTIQUE items, including a sweet little creamer, just like this one (minus the tag):</p><p>[ATTACH=full]81642[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I feel like a bit of an idiot posting these &quot;buys&quot; here, since none of it is even <i>remotely </i>relevant to an antiques site, but what the hey (!!!) I also somehow feel that I have cheated someone out of a fair amount of money,</p><p><br /></p><p>Nonetheless, I am still excited, &amp; I might even venture into a thrift store again sometime![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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