My new *~Life Career Path~* towards being a less miserable schmuck and selling vintage stuff quasi-full time means making more trips to the Goodwill Outlet, aka the BINS. And it is a trip, as it's located on the complete other side of the city by some sketchy train tracks, and by bus, which adds its own level of adventure. The Bins are an all encompassing, total sensory experience in glorified, legal dumpster diving. I mean, I literally found a bag of dirt the first time I went. A. Bag. Of. Dirt. I've also found great stuff, so I keep going back because I am a trash bandit.
I went early today hoping to beat the inevitable rush, but it was nuts anyway. Two people literally got in a shoving match over a broken child's keyboard (the instrument) and some lady yelled at me for "being judgmental" about someone's parenting choices after she engaged me, complaining about a screaming kid and saying she'd never bring her kids there. I agreed, then made a joke about "unless I had a baby hazmat suit or something" and she lit into me about how some people don't have help like SHE does and that it's very sad how some people make their money (?????). Smash-cut to me backing away slowly as she continued to complain about the loud kid to no one in particular.
It was looking like that was going to be the tone of the entire outing until I stumbled on a second set of book bins. That never happens! Goodwill is insane for how they price their books these days (I totally remember when they were like 50 cents, I swear), and they run pretty high for what they are at the bins too, BUT I usually can find some good stuff. I had to pass on a 1950s Elks Lodge handbook since hardcover books are pricey (for what I'm about) but found some good kids books. I stupidly put down a 1990 New Kids on the Block UNOFFICIAL (it made that clear) biography and then couldn't find it again. Why?!
I found this one back in October with the intention of putting it in my space for Halloween, but totally forgot and re-found it last week. Noooo!
I need to get my act together and start taking photos of some stuff, because I really want to do a series of things I collect! So stay tuned for that, maybe.
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