Glinda |
06-27-2009 02:16 PM |
I'd guess that at least 70% of everything I own is second-hand.
It's mom's doing. See, she's a thrift store 'ho - simply canNOT pass one by without stopping. Same deal with yard sales. As a consequence of her having pretty much everything she could ever possibly want or need, she turns her thrift-store eye to supplying me.
And she finds some killer stuff! Clothes, shoes, coats, gardening supplies, food, plants, furniture...
I kid you not, when I bought my first place, mom (who lives in Southern CA) bought a dining room set, a big-ass 1-inch thick-glass coffee table with brass legs, a sofa/loveseat set that was brand-freakin-new, and a washing machine, all from various thrift stores, and had them shipped to me in the SF/Bay Area. :crazy:
And I still have all of it (except the sofa/loveseat, which died after about eight years).
She's also addicted to dollar stores and sends me a couple of "care packages" a month. Okay, I'm 50 years old and do NOT live in the Arctic tundra, but, god bless her, she's still sending crap. I must have twelve bags of various kinds of beans in my pantry, and enough Jiffy cornbread mix for an army. Hell, she even sends me cans of sauerkraut!
Gotta love her! :o
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