tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10709507.post4450871175636128488..comments2023-09-26T10:38:21.961-04:00Comments on The View From the Last House in America: Sometimes You Win...Kim Velkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06729808121762572706noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10709507.post-70013538399456287882010-03-20T08:45:35.225-04:002010-03-20T08:45:35.225-04:00Hi All - I am always happy to see when a comment h...Hi All - I am always happy to see when a comment has blipped in and always plan to respond. I can't really do so from work, of course, and limited internet access these days means I sometimes can't get back in til the weekend. Just FYI.<br /><br />Deb - I went back to Goodwill yesterday after a big lawyer meeting in Burlington wrapped up. I didn't get one thing. For some reason I found myself tempted by a pair of souvenir of Holland wooden shoes. Ghastly, and yet... I realized that even thinking about buying them suggested I was crossing a line.<br /><br />R - Since I was paying, albeit as little as possible, I wasn't actually robbing.... Thanks for the smiley emotey thingy after that comment. : - )<br /><br />Mme - You are right, I think, to refer to it as a bug and you are wise to protect the integrity of your immune system. Junk shopping is a guilty pleasure for me (i.e. "vice"). I justify it by the fact that I don't drink, smoke or philander and I might have to pick up one of those (more expensive and probably more destructive) vices.<br /><br />Alisa - Thanks for commenting. I didn't know about the LL Bean returns angle til I read your comment. I was on the lookout for some of those when I got back to that Goodwill yesterday. No score, but I'll be on the look out from here on in.Kim Velkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06729808121762572706noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10709507.post-57345103774999820092010-03-15T09:28:58.236-04:002010-03-15T09:28:58.236-04:00I visited that new Goodwill last time I was visiti...I visited that new Goodwill last time I was visiting my sister. Very nice. Got a great outfits for my daughter and they also sometimes carry returns from LLBean. I too wonder if that is what I have become-the purveyor of all things cast off-but I still love it!aleahyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03268410431314719940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10709507.post-79117536673905610142010-03-14T15:30:23.446-04:002010-03-14T15:30:23.446-04:00Never really got the charity shop bug, but I have ...Never really got the charity shop bug, but I have a friend who swears by them. I never find anything I want, but maybe I should refine my ideas on what I want. Or move to Vermont and look in better shops.Madame DeFargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08172239340844485940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10709507.post-66035662119663884102010-03-14T13:45:45.495-04:002010-03-14T13:45:45.495-04:00And isn't this grubbing through the goods of t...<i>And isn't this grubbing through the goods of the dead sort of horrifying?</i><br /><br />Don't worry, dear. Grave robbing has a long, illustrious history.<br /><br />[Smiley emoti-thingy here]<br /><br />Cheers.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10709507.post-57941420070167458742010-03-14T13:11:47.580-04:002010-03-14T13:11:47.580-04:00and i see you found the magic lantern at glass sli...and i see you found the magic lantern at glass slides at FreshVintage.<br /><br />Pennsylvania has some wonderful flea markets, auctions, household estate sales....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10709507.post-67198679731782925042010-03-14T12:48:13.091-04:002010-03-14T12:48:13.091-04:00ah hahahahahahahahaha!
you and me, baby, diggin&#...ah hahahahahahahahaha!<br /><br />you and me, baby, diggin' through the discarded detritus of the thrift shops.<br /><br />ah, the outfits i wear doing so - people probably think of me as a bag lady but why wear anything decent when you're handling goods that may not be very clean.<br /><br />a very well traveled gal told me the Prado is her favorite museum in the world - just to add to fuel to your desire....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com