Thirty Days of Thrifting - Day Five

I'm exhausted. We went to the Midstate Fair today to watch the sheepdog trials and have fair-like fun. I love the "As Seen On TV" style vendors, which is why I go to the fair with $5 in my pocket and my debit card in the trunk of the car. I can't even begin to tell you how much I now want a Vitamix blender, a Rainbow home cleaning system, a Mr. Sticky Lint Roller, and foot relief insoles.

I was going to buy a sno cone for $1.50 but I couldn't find the vendor and my feet hurt too much to go on a wild goose chase because I didn't buy the foot relief insoles.

We didn't get home from the fair until 4:30 and by then all the thrift stores except Goodwill were long closed. Since I was tired, I told Joe I was just going to run in and do a quick look simply to meet my goal of going once a day.

When I got there, I found this:


I owned that from June 2000 to about four months ago when it was donated to a fundraising garage sale at church after having been unsuccessfully offered for sale at our garage sale for $3, including the matching pitcher! Goodwill was selling it with matching pitcher for $8.

I also learned something about Goodwills. They share product. This couch was at the Arroyo Grande Goodwill as of last Wednesday and is now being sold in San Luis Obispo.


Unless there are two of them. Which disturbs me even to consider.

I checked to see if my Dick Francis books were in the same spot where I left them last week. They were not. In fact, the entire book section had been rearranged. I wonder if that was a coincidence or if that happens regularly. Kind of like product swapping between stores.

I did want these shoes for $5 because they would replace a pair that wore out two years ago.


I didn't get them because I wasn't sure they were the right brown.

And I'm still working through issues related to wearing used shoes. I'm not sure I'm there yet.

Total for today: $0

Tomorrow: Not sure yet. I'm working downtown, so maybe I'll be able to hit something on my lunch hour.