07 March 2009

Harnessing the Diiversity of the Goodwill Store

I went to the Goodwill Outlet Store today.

Remember now, the prices at this store are determined by weight. So I paid $1.59 per POUND for what I purchased today.

I found quite an assortment of items.

Wanna see?

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Some assorted cool greeting cards.

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These paper things that appear to perhaps go on a spindle and the graphics will then "move."

I have a record player and some vintage Red Raven Records and the "Magic Carousel" (google this if you need to...) and that knowledge allowed me to see the cool art aspect of these.

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The kid blows a bubble gum bubble...

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The frog grimaces and dances...

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This caught my eye.

(there is a joke here.)

It was in a plastic bag and I could see it had some photographs.

Turns out it belonged to an ophthalmologist - maybe around the 1950's - 1960's.

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OK - so this kid has a little problem. I hope it got fixed.

But THEN! BUT THEN!!! There were photos of eye surgeries - graphic, oh LORD, G-R-A-P-H-I-C photos of eye surgeries.

I could not even look (another joke here) at them. I just tucked them back in the middle of the papers.

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Some sort of rock climbing harness? I googled it to make sure that it is not some sort of uh, sex, harness?

It is not.

This one I think I can sell.

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The kid is going to Outdoor School next week and taking my old camera. I wanted to find a case for the camera and Viola! There it was.

By the pound!

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I picked this up and put it down a couple of times....but it seems like "something" to me - - - -

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The bottom - or is it the top of the "something?"

What I like about the outlet store, is that it make absolutely NO sense.


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