The in-laws gave me $50 in Goody Bucks for my birthday. Whoo hoo! My MIL and I hit the Goodwill on the biggest retail road in the area. It’s not the best Goodwill, but it’s close and has a good stock turnover.

White (clear) barbs were 75% off this day and books were B1G1. I found two pairs of shoes right away. A pair of Rocket Dog platform sandals and a pair of tan leather platform moccasins. Both $4.50 each. Shoes no longer have tags, so they can’t be part of the color sales. I found a great knick knack shelf with cat cutouts for $4.00 (just have to sand and paint); a set of four mugs that go with me and Michael’s growing fruit and vegetable kitchen theme, just 50 cents each; a tote bag made out of a burlap rice sack (50 cents), a work mug for Michael (“They can’t fire me. I’m the only one who knows the phone number for pizza delivery”, 25 cents), a vintage travel iron (sans cord 50 cents, makes an excellent bookend for my mass markets).

I found a pair of jeans with dragons embroidered on the back pockets (full price, $7.00), a pair of black pinstripe trousers (from the Limited who I love, $5.00), and an Aqua Teen Hunger Force tshirt ($2.50) too small for Michael so I bought it to wear on his behalf.

I wasn’t finding any white barbs and I was getting ticked. Then I found a lavendar hoodie and track pant set for $7.50 ($1.88 with the discount), a long sleeve black lace blouse with silver satin tank $2.50 (very stevie nicks and only 63 cents), vintage Virgin Island T (63 cents), satin tank and shorts pj set (75 cents). My MIL found a “Warning Attitude” tshirt for me (63 cents). She also found an awesome Jack Skellington t and almost put it back. My 16 year old BIL, however, knew I would want it. For 63 cents, hecks yeah. (It’s a bit too small, but oh well. I wore it anyway.)

The books were picked over and awful as usual. I did find two cookbooks. One from the Culinary Institute of America ($4) and one on bread machine baking ($2). I also found a Maeve Binchy paperback ($1). I was a bit sneaky and made sure the lady rung up the two cookbooks at the beginning of my order, so I’d pay for the $4 book and get the $2 book free. I didn’t want to get the $1 book free. It was funny, though, because when she got to the lone paperback she reminded me, “books are buy one get one free”. I know, I said, I just couldn’t find another one. She acted all disgusted like she couldn’t believe I was wasting this sale oppurtunity. I really couldn’t find another one! Not for me, my MIL, my BILs, my mom, my hubby, anyone.

I spent a total of $57, so I decided to pay $5 for the Michiana Goodwill Boosters program. You get one 50% total purchase coupon per month. That’s worth the five bucks per year. But it’s been 10 business days since I signed up and no coupon yet. I’ll give it four more days and then I’m calling.

I might complain about thrifting, but this was a fantastic 2 and 1/2 hours. I wish I could do it every week.