Goodwill treasures

2nd week of Goodwill treasures

Today, January 5, 2014, my friend and I headed towards a new Goodwill in Burien. We left on a cold 33° sunny day around 12:30 with a stop off at Starbucks for our traditional coffee.  Then we hit I-5 going north. We were suppose to stop off first in Federal Way but somehow while we were talking we totally missed the exit. Have you ever done that before?

**Just a quick reminder of the Goodwill stores and their pricing. Tacoma stores have Sunday’s and Monday’s a certain color tag is $1.29 and another certain tag is 50% off all week. The Seattle stores only have a certain tag 50% on Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Then this tag goes to $1.29 on Mondays.

So the first Goodwill stop was Des Moines and this is what I bought for $14.68. 2 children’s sleepers at $2.00 each (green tag - 50% off), 1 Christmas dress at $1.29 (pink tag) for consignment, 1 children’s hoodie sweatshirt at $1.29, 4 children hard cover books at $1.29 each and 1 educational 1^st grade box by Lakeshore of the Human Body for $1.29 (consignment).

Second stop was Burien. The thrill of the hunt in seeking out new Goodwill shopping ground is upon us as we ventured into this store. I found: 1 children’s sleeper at $1.29, 1 dress at $1.50 (consignment), 1 Christmas jumper at $1.29 (consignment), 2 books at $.79 each, 1 bag of ribbon 1.00 and 1 Mason jar at $.20. Total $7.48.

Again jumped on Highway 509 and was greeted with a short cut to Seattle coming from behind the city onto the Deerborn Street Goodwill. Here I found: 2 pairs of jeans for me at $4.00 (didn’t try them on until I got home – need to lose a little buttocks jiggle), 1 Christmas overalls at $2.00 (consignment), 1 dress for Kenz at $6.00, 1 hoodie sweatshirt at $2.50, 1 Bob’s children’s shoes at $6.00, 3 packages of parchment paper at $.99 each = $2.97, 1 plastic tablecloth $.99 (to protect dining room table when doing art projects), 1 rubber non slip yardage at $2.99, 2 books at $.79 and 1 book at $.99. This came to a total of $36.79.

Next we hopped on I-90 which took us over Mercer Island and then Highway 405 headed towards the Renton Goodwill. Sun was setting and the sky was a hazy pink. You know that old saying: Pink sky at night, sailors delight. And look what I found holiday brown tags 75% off. So I got 2 Christmas dresses – 1 at $1.50 and 1 at $1.25(consignment). I also found a moose wreath for my door at school for $1.25. I bought 1 Sesame Street plastic cup for $.50, a frog hook for $2.99.Total $8.39. 

Our last stop of the night was Tukwila Goodwill and by this time it was dusk and we encountered birds, birds and more birds. It really was a fascinating encounter. Within a 2 block area birds were soaring through the sky to perch on top of the trees. They were evenly spaced on the light fixtures looming over intersections and buildings. Many of us in our cars just stared through our windshields and tried to figure out where they were coming from and where were they all going. As our car turned the corner towards our destination, away from the busy intersections and lights from stores, we found there weren’t any birds in sight. 

Finally reaching our final destination we surveyed the prospects and I found: 3 books at $.79 each = $2.37, 1 pack of plastic cups at $.50 and 1 small Mason jar at $.20. Total was $ 3.35.

Not bad for $72.39. I was looking for 1 tall movable shelf bookcase and 1 short squat bookcase both for school and lo and behold neither were in sight, probably because I was looking for them. Oh, well another day, another Goodwill.