I'm Chris and I am addicted to yard sales, garage sales, thrift stores and bargain hunting in general. Visit my site yardsalequeen.com - which I started in 1996.
"Smile" and "VV" (Vintage Value) are the names of two thrift stores I regularly shop at.
I grew up in Clifton Park NY but now live in Lusby, MD. I also lived in other exciting locales such as Schenectady, Watervliet (NY), and Charleston, SC.
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
My Thrift Store buys today
I hit two of my local thrifts today (Smile and Spot - to be exact). What I really like about the thrift shops in my area is that there are no big thrift store chains - like Salvation Army or Goodwill. Both thrifts I hit today are charity-based, run by volunteers. Then there is also a very small chain of thrifts in my area - they have 2 stores so I guess that is a chain? They are run by an organization to use the thrift as a job-training facility for the disabled. They are opening a third location in June, so I am excited about that.
Shoes were half off at one store so I bought several pairs. I made a video of my buys today. I forgot to display a pair of canvas Nike shoes ($1.50 for myself) since I had put them in the washing machine. Same with a nice hand embroidered pillowcase (.50) - forgot to put that in the video.
I have a wide variety of interests: going to yard sales, garage sales, thrift stores, estate sales and rummage sales. Drinking rum and diet coke. After I had my son Jacob in 2000, I quit my job at a nuclear power plant after almost 10 years. Now I just sit home, eat bonbons and drink way too much diet coke. And plan my Saturday routine.
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I love the videos! Keeps me going when I don't have time to thrift shop/garage sale! :) Keep 'em coming.
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