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Skriven 2013-04-19 15:17:48 av RUTH HANSCHKA (1:123/140)
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-> -> Sometimes tho, you do find treasure in with the trash.
-> 
->  RH> Much less so than in the past, but sometimes.  The hospital thrifts
->  RH> sometimes turn up treasure, but I've given up on GoodWill.  They 
send
->  RH> anything that looks good to auction.  Every once in a while 
something
->  RH> good slips through, i.e. some sterling jewelry, but they usually
->  RH> charge a good price for it too.  Sometimes it's higher than retail.
->  RH> Hospital thrifts get their stuff most often from people making real
->  RH> money.
-> 
-> I don't think the one in the area my parents live in does that. From
-> what I've seen (from the outside), it looks like pretty ordinary stuff.
-> 
I find Brooks Brothers menswear in this one regularly and a Burberry jacket 
recently.  That was on clearance ...for a dollar.  My church's Executive 
Pastor (mostly a desk job) ended up with it.

->  RH> some cheddar
->  RH> cheese
->  RH> flavored with apple and cinnamon.  It's still sealed, but it looked
->  RH> either really weird or really good...so of course it came home.  So
->  RH> did some
->  RH> seriously cheap wine-cured salamis that were marked down from $15
to
->  RH> $3.75 for 3 8-ounce chubs.  Since that was half the price of a 
single
->  RH> one...duh. :-)
-> 
-> Sounds like you did quite well. Lowe's has an area for bargain meat,

Or badly. :-)  Ask me if I needed any of it.

-> another one near the dairy area that has baked good and assorted other
-> stuff, then another area at the front of the store. We usually check all
-> 3, finding bargains in each one, but not all of them, all the time. It's
-> introduced us to some new to us foods, helped stretch our budget and
-> stocked the freezer with bargains. We're working on a jar of giardia we
-> found for $1.50 recently.

((slurp))  Giardia omelets anyone?  I love the clearance bin at the Big Y.  
The kosher for passover jelly beans, I keep my church office in candy, were 
marked down from almost four dollars a bag to eight cents.  Less than the 
original sales tax! I bought a bunch - they're yummy.  Closeout Passover 
goodies are great for anyone with Celiac disease too; they're often gluten-
free and gluten free stuff isn't cheap.
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