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[cupcake_goth]

 Having gone to thrift stores two (TWO!) weekends in a row, I have noticed an unhappy trend: Goodwill stores are getting rid of the locked display cases of jewelry and more interesting collectibles. Instead, pieces of jewelry are put in small ziplock bags and hung on spinner racks. As you might guess, anything of really good quality isn't around.

I ended up at the Shoreline Goodwill, and while they still have the display case, the woman who runs it told me it's not long for this world. "Stores don't get gold, sterling silver, or watches anymore - it all goes to shopgoodwill.com. And then management is concerned that jewelry sales are dropping AND stores are seeing higher theft rates. Morons."

However, Min and I did find a charming independent thrift store (run by a local senior center), and their stock was more interesting and far better priced. Time to make myself a list of the small charity/independent thrift stores around here.

The best part of all of this: Spending time with Min and getting out of my house! Yesssss.

Comments

[gwyn]

West Seattle is a colossal pain in the ass to get to now because of the bridge, but we have a really sweet little senior thrift shop, as well as an ACS one that gets interesting stuff in.

[oldhalloween]

It looks like you have an Assistance League shop and they are usually great. Several furniture pieces we purchased at the AL shop here. I tend to drive to some of the more rural shops since the variety is usually better. My best scores in jewelry tend to be at estate sales and with warmer weather around the corner they will be plentiful. If its a 3 day estate sale we hit several on Friday and have a nice lunch out.

[sara]

Yeah, I went thrifting today for the first time post-pandemic and was pretty underwhelmed. Prices were up and the quality of stock very much was not.

[sistawendy]

If you want to get a larger gang together, I'm game.

[meara]

You would think with all the people doing all the Kon Marie stuff over the pandemic they'd be full of stuff! That sucks. Also, who is going to "shop goodwill"?? Something tells me that's just used stuff for more money than I want to spend on used stuff, which is the opposite of why I go to Goodwill??

[archersangel]

i haven't been to goodwill in at least 6 years, maybe more. and at that time they had the jewelry in small ziplock bags and hung on spinner racks. that annoyed me, because you can't try it on. the display case, that formally held the jewelry, had a couple of kate spade purses & i forget what else.