A Thrifting Surprise
I've always been a thrifter, even as a child my favorite store was what we called the junk store on Chestnut Avenue. This was in the days before yard sales or before I knew about them. I loved to sift through the tables piled high with old junk that I remember being mainly car parts and boy stuff. But there were tiny treasures to be had, old broken jewelry, treasure boxes, comics by the bundle. The store was dark and dusty and the proprietor didn't mind children picking things up and moving them. I filled house after house over the years with my yard sale finds, a perfect quilt from the 30's back in 1975 for $5.00 from an elderly person who was sick and tired of it being on her guestroom bed, a curved top trunk I kept for more than 40 years that sold for more than I paid for it and necessary items, like clothing, that we wore and resold. Now I have downsized and sold and given away more than half of what I owned, I love the freedom of not having so m...