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6.2 MORE THAN THE USUAL 90% OFF; EVEN THRIFT SHORES HAVE REGULAR SALES; CUT AND REDUCE
CHRISTMAS SHOPPING EXPENSES.
By
Sharon Mills
There
are two thrift shops in our area that I especially like. One benefits the humane society
and the other is run by a church group. The retired gentleman who works in the church shop
told me the other day that all of the money the shop takes in goes to charities in this
county. It helped fund 12 organizations this year, giving $9,000 to Meals on Wheels, for
example.
The
Humane Society has only one sale a year, at Christmas, but has uniformly low prices. For
example, all dresses, whether K-Mart brand or Donna Karan, cost $1.00, and all shirts,
tops and blouses, whether holey T-shirts or silk evening wear, cost 50 cents. The ladies
who work there put aside toys, Christmas decorations, gift items and what they deem better
clothes for their Christmas sale. Theirs runs for three days, and they put out new items
each day.
Like
the other shop, the church thrift shop has a huge Christmas sale for which it has been
saving "like new" stuff all year. Instead of just adding this merchandise to what's left
from the half price sale, the workers empty the showroom and re-fill it, wheeling out new
racks of clothes and tables of appliances, nick nacks, jewelry and gift items. Last
Christmas I bought my daughter a wall rack to hang her surf board from.
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