Goodwill

I'm always amazed by the remarkable bargains Meredith finds while thrift shopping, so every once in a while, I'll head into a thrift store to have a look. A Goodwill store opened up last month a couple of miles from my house, so I decided to check it out.

Steven gave me a new record player for my birthday, so I flipped through the records at the store. There wasn't anything good, but I did do a double take on this one:




You see, I was a member of that choir back in high school. Obviously not that choir, as I wasn't even born yet judging by the outfits you can see in the closeup, but the youth choir of the same name at that same church, just about 20 years later. I had no idea they used to make records and play their own instruments. All we did was sing and occasionally do little bits of acting. (My era was the time of youth-group musicals. Very big in the 80s.) It was just kind of fun to see that record and have a bit of a connection.

What I did wind up buying was 2 baskets that I'll use for craft-room organization (after I clean them up a bit), and 4 hardcover books, 3 of which are full of animal stories (my personal kryptonite--I'm a total sucker for animal stories). All of this cost only $5.57! I was pretty pleased by the cheapness of it all.