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During the summer, my habit has become to try to visit an estate sale every Friday morning, if there is one opening before I start work. So today, Kate and I were out the door by 6:40 so we could go get in line for the 7:00 "gate time" for a sale advertised in the local paper. After waiting outside for about 40 minutes due to the strangest system of letting people into a sale I've ever experienced, Kate and I finally got in.
As normal, my first stop was the kitchen, where I immediately saw this gorgeous Vera "fruits and nuts" tea towel on a black background. I knew we must have it! Unfortunately it was in a pile of miscellaneous, mostly terrycloth, kitchen towels ... priced as a lot. I looked quickly through the pile and didn't see anything else interesting, but thought I'd hold on to the stack and see if they wouldn't sell me just the one towel. They wouldn't, so I reluctantly bought the whole thing with the intention of donating the other cloths to a thrift shop with the hope that I might build up some thrift karma.
After we returned to the car, I looked closer at the stack, and folded in between a few other cloths was a second Vera towel, picturing fruits and measurement conversions! If they would have let me purchase just the single towel, I would have missed this second one completely. My thrift karma came back to me before even making the donation! Now I guess I just need to be more thorough when shopping, or else I'll keep missing stuff like this.
Found on July 25, 2008 in Champaign, IL.
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