The Hunt!
Monday, February 23, 2009
This past weekend was a good one for shopping! We were going through Santa Paula on the way to the boat and stopped at their great Goodwill - Whew! the bargains!
They have $1 racks - and some of our things came from there - and otherwise pieces were mostly $3.99 - My husband got a NEW terracotta cotton sweater which looks great on him for that price and it still had the tag on it. What was that? a $30 buy at least.
We also got:
- t shirts (new) at $1 and two at $3.99 (new?)
- ruffled shirt and skirt for $1 each
- a trendy green resin necklace, new, with a tag for $15 - gotten for $1.69! (Now I like this necklace - but I would never have paid that MUCH for it. Crazy.)
- black sequined Mizrani mules (new?) $3.99 -
- black knit pants - (They were marked Medium, but actually were larger - glad I tried them on...) new?
- various paperback books
- a rust and black batik jacket -( I love ethnic stuff)
- a beautiful ethnic emerald green, gold embroidered silk skirt - Indian? Hope to make it into something...
- a pair of cropped denim pants with embroidery (Hubby found that for me!)
I am sure I am missing something - but it was all for about $43! - My husband grumbled - but the batik jacket or the sweater alone could easily cost THAT. (And to think on a bargain fashion blog they were saying that things were inexpensive if in the $30 range!)
That's the trick to me having a wardrobe! The batik jacket will go beautifully with a pair of brown pants I already have - or black ones. And the luck to find BLACK shoes and pants! Those are the basics, like good white shirts, that are rare in thrifting! And which you can hardly have too many of, as they are staples.
The secret of this place seems to be that they get merchandise from Target - after sales, etc., among other sources. Some of the merchandise then is STILL too pricey for what it is - but they also have deals in clothes, sometimes quite NEW - as you can see from my description. So we usually end up spending a bit there - over $20 at least - so we limit our visits to when we happen to be passing through.
That was my thrift shopping for the weekend (I don't seem to spend any $ any other times nowadays - or any other places, either.) But I did treat myself to an antique key charm to wear on a chain for a necklace - and more $.50 old books at Bart's outdoor bookstore in Ojai. I love their funny ancient books - they take me to reading in places where I would never have thought of going on my own. For example, one book is on the illnesses of our presidents - which is great for me, whose history has to come from the social history angle...
I then popped into my favorite health food store to check up on sales items - and landed some immune system formula on sale (mine's been off the last couple of weeks.) and scored some freebies of samples of vitamins and lotions.
Mark asked if I felt guilty - but that's WHY I GO to that store as often as I can - so, no, I didn't. I always spend at least $10 -20 there - so why should I feel any guilt? (Especially when a "freebie" online for which I had to pay shipping (It looked like a good deal.) was just a little packet of lotion and a teensy sample of the sort I get gratis! And not even the right color, because their system fouled up and I was unable to fix the error!
Came home to a pile of freebie magazines! Oh, we also visited the library bookstore in Carpinteria - where I always pick up some of the paperbacks I devour - and found myself sharing the secret of my free magazine subscriptions with the pleasant ladies who run the joint. We ladies do like our magazines to look at !
Mark is complaining about the magazine pile - but it's time to take a bag full to my therapist's office. I noticed last time I was there that the ones I had brought were already GONE. And some can go to the laundry room here, where fellow tenants can go through them...
Thinking about a way to recycle some of my better paperbacks. Bart's does buy and trade - so I am going to start a "Bart's Box" for the tradable books and bring them up next time I have a doctor's appointment up there on a Friday when they buy books. At least, it might help defray my Bart's spending, which is about $10 a month or so. But as I am so bad about library books and resulting fines, as I have said here many times - it's easier and cheaper for me to get cheap used books than agonize about returning library books.
So today it's back to freebie hunting - got 2 coupons for free Quizno's sandwiches to use this week - one for me & one for the hubby...Now I am back at home at the computer - writing and combing the net for work leads.
I saw an old buddy from 99 seat theatre days in a horror flick on ScareNet on cable - Resurrection Mary - a low budget one, but with its own charms - and it was great to see Joe Estevez do such a great job handing the exposition (more or less as I did in my own horror pirate flick!) That means the backstory to whatever horror situation they are tyring to set up, which usually comes in a nice, long monologue. That and the appearance of JOLLY ROGER on TV last week all goes into my self-esteem file!
So the weekend functioned as away weekends should - I came back refreshed and ready for whatever the week throws at me. Mark had had a hard time prying me out of the house early on Friday to get up there - but I am very glad he did. And wasn't he sly to know that a bit of shopping would help me cheer up? In the old days ladies bought hats - now we get everything...
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