Fridays are my thrifting days. This stems from when I was working and my husband was running our store. I worked Monday through Thursday. so Friday was “my” day; the day I ran errands, did grocery shopping, and did whatever I wanted; which was generally thrifting. Now that I’m retired and our store is only open Wed. through Sat., I can go thrifting whenever I want, but I still usually only go locally on Fridays.
We live in a semi-rural area, and there’s not a lot of thrift stores here, so I generally hit the same stores each week. We have Goodwill, ARC, and several independent/regional stores. Of course, there’s also an abundance of yard sales and estate sales, plus a couple of swap meets.
Most of the items I pick up are for resell, however I do buy for personal use as well.
I haven’t taken photos yet of everything I picked up yesterday, but here’s one thing I was really excited about. I have really good luck selling Douglas and Jellycat brand stuffed animals. I was looking through the toy bags at GW and spied a hedgehog. Most of the bagged stuffies are TY but occasionally I find other brands. As I examined the bag closer, I saw that the hedgehog had a Jellycat tush tag, so into my cart the baggie went. After I had checked out and loaded my purchases into my Jeep, I grabbed the bag with the Jellycat and took a photo to send to my husband. When I got the hedgehog out of the bag, I discovered that the hangtag was still intact! First Jellycat I’ve had with the hangtag.
This was my favorite find yesterday. I picked up several other items as well. I’ll take photos and post them later.
