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Our Goodwill store in Phoenix area just raised their regular Blue Jeans price from $7.99/pair to $8.99/pair after the minimum wage in AZ increased to $10.50/hr on January 1st. Occasionally they do go on sale.
Our Goodwill store in Phoenix area just raised their regular Blue Jeans price from $7.99/pair to $8.99/pair after the minimum wage in AZ increased to $10.50/hr on January 1st. Occasionally they do go on sale.
If the Goodwill stores in Phoenix are like the ones in Tucson, they have 50% off sales on a pretty frequent basis.
Last month, my old coffee maker broke. The one that I was looking at was on sale for $59 at Kohl's but was out of stock. I bought the same coffee maker at Goodwill for $4. No kidding.
I've just never had luck with "thrift shopping." Maybe it's my area. The thrift stores are in the "poor" area of town, so I never knew if it was because the good stuff got snapped up quickly or if the donations were shoddy to begin with...
I did community service at the local Salvation Army. We sorted through bags upon bags upon bags of junk. We were told to sort out anything with holes (even small pin holes) or stains. Everything that made it to a hanger was outdated or pilled or shrunken or stretched.
Still, prices aren't that good.
It's been about a year since I've stocked up (it's about time now, actually!), but Walmart had/has camisoles for $1.68, feminine-cut T-shirts in seasonal colors (ya know...pastels in spring, bright colors in summer, darker colors in the fall and winter) for $3.88, leggings for $7-$10, jeans for $20. The prices are cheaper than/similar to/just slightly higher than the prices at the thrift stores, and you're getting brand new clothes that aren't pilled, that haven't shrunk, and you can buy your actual size and pick out the colors. I have also found that they hold up pretty well. I still have clothes from Walmart from 4+ years ago that don't look too bad and that barely shrunk at all, but of course, they aren't as "bright" and "fresh" as if they were brand new. Still totally wearable, though. I always, always buy those basics at Walmart, then look for cute stuff on sale at JC Penney or Maurice's, etc. to pair with. I grew up with the idea that buying clothes from Walmart came with a certain stigma, but I don't know what stigma comes with a black pair of leggings or a white cami.
I've bought clothes from Target in the past and wasn't really a fan. Maybe it's my body shape, but at both my lowest and highest weights -- and in-between -- their clothes mostly fit me "weird." I've never been a big fan of how their material feels, and I have found that their clothing seems to be of a much cheaper quality than Walmart. I have also found that most of their stuff doesn't hold up as well in the wash as my Walmart pieces.
If the Goodwill stores in Phoenix are like the ones in Tucson, they have 50% off sales on a pretty frequent basis.
Last month, my old coffee maker broke. The one that I was looking at was on sale for $59 at Kohl's but was out of stock. I bought the same coffee maker at Goodwill for $4. No kidding.
I'm glad your purchase went well, but I'm not sure I would buy small kitchen appliances at Goodwill. They're so difficult to actually clean, and you don't know that they didn't come from a home with roaches.
Yes they are and we are also having a problem here with rogue goodwill drop off boxes. They are literally on every street corner. Link below is from an older article in south Florida. Crazy as they started appearing like almost overnight here!
Kind of genius as it is like baiting a trap, set it out and just go collect the contents. They are in just about every retail lot now. The real goodwill box used to overflow and people would leave boxes right next to it when full. Never see that anymore!
So what? We have those boxes here, and I'm glad. It's a convenient way to get rid of and recycle clothing, etc. without having to drive to Salvation Army or Goodwill, which are about 15 miles from here...the closest donation box is 1 mile away.
When I did community service at the Salvation Army, we HAD to throw anything away that was donated after hours. Like, people would pull up and leave things, but if it was sitting outside when the Salvation Army opened, we had to throw it away, no matter what it was. We couldn't even take it home or offer to pay cash to take it home if we wanted it or anything.
Also, I think you would be AMAZED at just how much stuff our small-town Salvation Army received and got rid of. We had big balers where we tossed anything with a stain or a hole...which was just about everything. I spent almost all of my 40 hours at Salvation Army throwing stuff into those balers. And there was absolutely no way we could keep up with the many, many bags of "stuff" that were coming in. The entire warehouse was packed, floor to ceiling, with trash bags filled with stuff. Salvation Army and Goodwill are getting plenty of stuff...trust me.
Yes, but our local thrift stores are trying to upscale their merchandise.
And I have found amazing things. I just bought a pair of mint condition black women's loafers / driving moccasins - Stuart Weitzmann - for 22 dollars. $300 shoes. Fit me perfectly. Crazy.
Our Goodwill store in Phoenix area just raised their regular Blue Jeans price from $7.99/pair to $8.99/pair after the minimum wage in AZ increased to $10.50/hr on January 1st. Occasionally they do go on sale.
So agree. Here in SC/NC area minimum wage has not went up. But I have a friend who swears by Goodwill where used dresses are $7.99. I can go to a sale at SteinMart when they have 50% off redline/blue slash and get brand new labels for $7.50. Or sometimes even cheaper at Nordstrom Rack clear the rack sale. And our local thrift store has a $2 sale periodically on high end clothing. Goodwill is no longer a deal on clothing. Maybe household items or something.
Some of it goes for a lot more than that on Ebay...... but let's not go there.
You know about the vending machines in Japan, right?!
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