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Goodwill shopping!

The kids and I picked up Matthew from a friends home after the retreat. We went to a nice dinner at Ruby Tuesday then went to Meijer to find something I had been watching to go on sale even further. It had the last time I was there but I didn't get it. Well, it was gone and I was really bummed. Matt told me that it's ok and that something better would come along.

Fast forward 20 minutes later. I decided to go to Goodwill to see if I could find any linens, wool sweaters to recycle or anything else fun. Not quite 2 weeks ago I found the most beautiful picture with an old, antique frame. It was only 24.99 but I still didn't want to spend that on it. I had gotten my items to purchase and while in line looked across the other side of the room and there it was! I had looked earlier but it wasn't in the same place it was before. Since I knew I couldn't reach it and it was closing time, I asked the cashier if someone could see if it had a purple tag since purple tags were 1/2 off. The 30 seconds it took them to get it down seemed like minutes. Then I heard these beautiful words "it has a purple tag". Needless to say I was incredibly excited. So for a total of just over $23.00 I got the following:

The gorgeous picture
2 Pottery Barn shams - gorgeous dark colored floral - vintage looking
1 full sized sheet(like new) to complete my set for making my daughter a futon cover
1 gorgeous hair scarf - black background with floral design
2 dvd's for Matt
1 vhs for Matt

Needless to say I'm so excited! Now I'm off to get the camera and take a picture of my newly boughten picture so you can see it for yourself.


On the left side is a floral and striped print in reds. Those are the shams. Up on the top center/right is the sheet for Lyshie's futon cover I'll be making. The other sheet we have here to use for the cover is plain lavender.

Sorry about the flash - I still haven't cleaned it either. Isn't it gorgeous!
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Eva said…
I popped by your site to get the url to add it to mine.. and I saw this post! yay! I'm glad you had a good night. Where is the Goodwill you go to? Where is the Salv. Army? I just passed one the other day, but I don't remember where it was.

I love thrift stores.
August 2, 2008 at 8:49 PM
Amanda Kaake said…
This stuff I got at the Goodwill on Center Road right by our house. There's also a Salvation Army on Lapeer not far from here. However I think the best places to go are Salavation Army on Dort Hwy and the Salvation Army in Corunna. I'm getting ready to upload pix here in a couple minutes. Woo hoo!
August 2, 2008 at 9:22 PM
Eva said…
Newsboys!? I totally had those two CDs at one point in my life. I listen to 87.9 and sometimes hear old Newsboys some which remind me of Jr. high in youth group - riding in the church vans to camp/retreats.. etc.

Sweet finds!
August 2, 2008 at 9:53 PM
Amanda Kaake said…
Oh yeah:) We actually have all their albums ripped onto the computer but not too long before we got married someone stole Matt's cd's out of his car - prob. hundreds. Thankfully he had them on itunes but he still likes to have actual copies. He found these so we got them. My latest love is Plumb's new album, Blink.
August 3, 2008 at 1:12 AM
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