$20 salt/pepper shakers at Goodwill

Awesome coffee pot. Those salt shakers just look like an DIY project someone did at home for their country cabin.

i think that price is a mistake, maybe they meant $2?

I can always tell when a new pricer is working at the local Goodwills. They are convinced everything is made of gold and the prices go through the roof on even the junkiest of junk. A couple weeks later the prices go back to normal.

I bought a book on overlock sewing by Singer for 50p (1 dollar). Found these were priced online at about £1, so I took it with some other books into the thrift shop where I volunteer. It’s now in a glass case, priced at £25!

The rule is that if a shop worker wants to buy something, it has to be priced up by someone else. There’s some old maps that’ve been sitting on a shelf for the last six months, because I want to buy them and nobody else can work out a price- there’s no comparable maps online.

I’ve often seen fellow scavengers lamenting the ever increasing prices at Goodwill. I thought I was the lucky one but a few weeks ago my Goodwill started putting price tags on every single individual clothing item, which tells me they are planning on moving away from flat pricing (i.e. all dresses $6.99, all pants $5.99, etc) and will price based on what they think the brand is worth (Insert groan and eye roll here). I wonder if they will end up paying more in labor costs to have someone ticket & price each item individually than they will make by pricing some items more than the standard flat rate price. This could finally spell the end of my time thrifting the local GW. A few years ago I went there almost daily, now I go maybe once a quarter.

My local GWs are now loaded with people around my age – under 30, college-aged or graduated – shopping for clothes. I’ve also noticed signage in the stores advertising GW-ran Instagram accounts encouraging use of hashtags, stuff like “thrift store fashion” or whatever. It’s been like this for about a year, though. I don’t sell clothes, but did need to buy some recently and was put off by the price/quality ratio. I’d rather buy new, and I never buy new.

Sometimes GW will start feeling themselves and decide to crank up the prices of electronics. After a few weeks the overflowing pile of old printers gets too much to handle and they lower prices across the board to make room for new stuff.