I know, it’s been a long time since I blogged about the greatest store on earth, Value Village. To be honest, not much has changed there and I rarely go any more. I trickled over today to look for plaques, like, award plaques for a project I’m working on and to do some donating. The lady accepting donations was very nice, I told her about coming home around 10 pm last Friday night and watching a family (adults and children about Ari’s age) rooting through bags left as donations. She told me that they know who they are and that they do it regularly.
This is stealing. And the donations that are left strewn about are usually ruined by the weather making them unsellable too.
I did find some treasures today and if they’d been priced a little lower, they’d be with me right now. The first is this beautiful green sculpture which is reminiscent of my high school project called Reclining Poo (which, incidentally, I broke, glued back together and still have!).
Hand made, can you tell? Only $2.99. In hindsight, it almost seems worth it.
This next guy is made of painted pebbles and he has a yarn cravat:
He’s exactly as cute as you think he is. Also $2.99.
And this pig. I used to collect pig things when I was a kid, this is something I would have begged for.
I resisted this time.
I did get some good scores, 2 plaques and a small trophy AND a copy of Gobblet, a game we’ve had the Jr version of for a while. And really, I only paid $5 for all that stuff, so maybe saying everything is over priced there is an exaggeration.
And this is for Ali, who will know why-feel free to post on facebook or wherever:
How is your skush anyway?
AUGH! Skoosh AND balls!!! GROSS
wow. i love that green goo guy. You have a good eye, i probably would have skimmed right over that without a second look!
I have these great memories of my sister and I going to value village to buy old cheesy landscape paintings so then we could paint little badly painted paratrooper dudes parachuting from an army plane to the scene below. .. don’t ask me why, i have no clue. ;)
I’d love it if someone made me one of those, Andrea.
Oh god, I want to go to a Value Village so very much. This weekend I thrifted two Elvis mugs, some stripper shoes and an old lady’s cardigan branded “FUTURE LADY”, but the sort of tat you run into at a Value Village looks so much more hilarious.
Future Lady??? What does that mean?
When I worked at Value Village and had first dibs on everything, it was great, I got some amazing crap. So many hilarious shirts with personalized iron-ons. For some reason I left my sequined clown shirt there, I was missing it the other day.
My friend there bought a Coach bag (a real one!) for $3 I think. I always wondered what it was like in Toronto stores, if there were better donations. It sure doesn’t seem like it, judging on this location!
Here VV depends on the neighborhood. Which *almost* makes wish I still had my car because the one in the West Island, has such awesome stuff!
Granted the WI is stuck up suburbia in some areas.
I dunno, it’s a mysterious garment from the eighties. It’s either “Lady from the future!”, or “In the future, I shall be a lady!”. Given that it’s a glittery bronze polyester number I don’t see how it can be either, but the eighties were an exciting and hopeful time.
Also sequinned clown shirt, zomg.
That pig looks like a penis. And I almost died laughing at your ‘reclining poo’ story.